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Article: Nordic Sounds

Jazz the Norway

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 11, 2005

2005 marks the centennial of Norwegian independence from Sweden. Though you might not know it, Norwegians can, have been, and will be jazzing things up for quite a long time. Some are even among us in NYC! The field of jazz studies is indebted to jazz historians Bjørn Stendahl and Johs Bergh whose published ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joe Giardullo: Weather, No Work Today & Falling Water

by Clifford Allen
June 11, 2005

Joe Giardullo Weather Not Two Recorded during Giardullo's tenure as an artist-in-residence at Warsaw's Contemporary Arts Center, Weather features Giardullo solo at Krakow's Klub Re. It is in many ways difficult to get past the precedents for a solo soprano recording; Steve Lacy's Monk-with-trills and Evan Parker's breath-defying sound sculptures are an ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dances; On Fire Hierseins-Erfahrungen; Emission

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 11, 2005

Musical vanguardist and multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel has been under the spell of jazz since the end of WWII. By the end of the '50s, he was already a full-fledged European professional jazz musician and by the '60s, he had made lasting inroads into the North American jazz scene. Operating out of Germany and the USA, after ...

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Article: Album Review

James Finn Trio: Plaza de Toros

Read "Plaza de Toros" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
June 11, 2005

Last year, after a stint in Ben Harper's band, tenor man James Finn sprang onto the jazz scene at the age of nearly forty as a fully-formed free improviser, with a trio completed by bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Whit Dickey. Opening the Gates (Cadence Records) was quickly followed by Faith in a Seed (CIMP), the ...

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Article: Album Review

Manuel Valera: Forma Nueva

Read "Forma Nueva" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 11, 2005

Pianist Manuel Valera reminds me of the popularity Sonny Rollins had among music critics at the beginning of his career. Like Valera, the saxophonist entered the jazz scene fully developed. Valera, however, might take issue with such an observation, although his own productions to date would argue against him in that regard. Of those, Forma Nueva, ...

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Article: Album Review

Mick Rossi: One Block From Planet Earth

Read "One Block From Planet Earth" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 10, 2005

Mick Rossi's music brings to mind a couple of things. On one hand, it's reminiscent of Richard Feynman's life and work. Feynman, as is the quintet in One Block From Planet Earth, was multifaceted, humorous, life-relishing, unpretentiously profound, and a superb communicator of abstract concepts. On the other, it's reminiscent of the primeval concept of “talking ...

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Article: Album Review

Freddy Cole: Waiter Ask The Man to Play the Blues

Read "Waiter Ask The Man to Play the Blues" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 10, 2005

Originally released either in 1956, according to Freddy Cole's official website, or 1964, per the reissue's information, Waiter Ask The Man to Play the Blues: Freddie Cole Sings & Plays Some Lonely Ballads isn't--as the title might tempt one to think--an exercise in despondent blues and wrist slashing. Actually, it has plenty of tight, low, sizzling ...

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Article: Profile

Roy Campbell 101: From Where He Came

by Jason Byrne - Red Cat Publicity
June 10, 2005

We're just about midway through 2005 and NYC-based trumpeter Roy Campbell has already toured Europe with The Nu Band; performed at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival with his Pyramid Trio, featuring his musical brother, bassist William Parker; and toured Europe yet again with guitarist Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Band. Plus, he's played a host of gigs ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

James Moody & Moody And The Brass Figures

by Andrew Rowan
June 9, 2005

What a perfect name: James Moody. His playing has that fire and fluency honed in the bebop and post-bop eras, but there is also a haunting sound that tells the listener that his music is about feeling as much as it is about musical notation. James Moody James Moody Argo-Verve ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Christensen: New York School

Read "New York School" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
June 8, 2005

Modern jazz sometimes seems a bit schizophrenic, caught between the extremes of intellectual abstraction and spiritual seeking, and the more ambitious sort often fails because it can't find intuitive connections between the two. Horn multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen's third release in six years is a pleasure from start to finish because it manages to simultaneously embrace thought ...