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Article: Album Review

Charlie Haden: Land of the Sun

Read "Land of the Sun" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 5, 2005

Land of the Sun could--perhaps even should--be retitled Bolero: Gonzalo Rubalcaba Presents the Music of José Sabre MarroquÃ-n with Charlie Haden. This recording is about prowess of interpretative melodic dynamics; harmonic, rhythmic, and tonal beauty; and rigorous poetic tenderness. Playing jazzed boleros at this level of musicianship isn't an easy matter nonetheless. One must ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

A Love Supreme and La Espada de la Noche

by Joel Roberts
June 5, 2005

For years, jazz artists have shied away from A Love Supreme, treating it as somehow too iconic, too hallowed or at least too uniquely tied to its composer to cover. Who would dare try to improve on the perfection the Coltrane quartet achieved on their legendary 1964 Impulse! recording? Wynton Marsalis, that's who. And it's a ...

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Steve Turr: The Spirits Up Above

Read "The Spirits Up Above" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 5, 2005

Steve Turré first saw Roland Kirk performing almost forty years ago. The Spirits Up Above is a long-overdue homage to the Vibration Society's leader by one of its most distinguished alumni. Furthermore, this is a 24-bit engineered, mixed, and mastered recording by Rudy Van Gelder. Turré, sans seashells, offers only one original composition on ...

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Jane Bunnett: Red Dragonfly

Read "Red Dragonfly" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
June 5, 2005

Toronto-based soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett has built a solid career that for more than a decade has been focused on exploring traditional jazz and folk music from Cuba, touring with her Spirits of Havana band and also working to bring or send instruments to needy young Cuban players. Red Dragonfly is both an ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Sons of Sound

by Brian P. Lonergan
June 4, 2005

Meet Jeff Penney, the Sons of Sound record label's founder and president. And producer. And artist-and-repertoire rep. And, well, for that matter, sole employee. Penney started Sons of Sound in 1997, and though it may be a fledgling label compared to some of the jazz heavyweights, in years to come its stock may ...

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Article: Film Review

Bireli Lagrene & Friends: Live Jazz

by Celeste Sunderland
June 4, 2005

Birele Lagrene Live Jazz Á Vienne Dreyfus Records 2005 The little boy on stage is barely big enough to hold the guitar in his lap, but he plays with startling skill. Just beginning to develop a technique, his innocence is brilliant. He smiles humbly at the audience at Montreux.

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John Scofield: Live 3 Ways

by Riel Lazarus
June 4, 2005

John Scofield Live 3 Ways Blue Note Records 2005 15 years ago last May, guitarist John Scofield dusted off a few of his many musical hats before cameras at Chelsea Studios in New York. The result, recently released on DVD, is a tightly knit bonnet of jazz, blues and soul, ...

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Jacob Anderskov Trio: On The Loose

Read "On The Loose" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2005

About five years ago, Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov spent a prolonged period in NYC, during which he developed an imaginative partnership with the versatile downtown bassist Michael Formanek. Resulting releases from a trio, rounded out by drummer Anders Morgensen, have been adventurous undertakings of original music. On the Loose continues that course with five extended, semi-structured ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Weber: Simple Complex

Read "Simple Complex" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2005

The story behind pianist Jon Weber's Simple Complex stretches credulity, but the music speaks for itself. From the age of three or so, Weber has been an instrumental and compositional wunderkind. A real life Schroeder practicing on a toy organ, he possessed absolute pitch and a phenomenal song memory. Learning piano from his grandmother's collection of ...

Article: Album Review

Z: A Jazzar No Zeca

Read "A Jazzar No Zeca" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2005

Internationally renowned bassist, composer, and musical director Zé Eduardo has been a seminal figure and a long-time fixture on the Portuguese jazz landscape. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the end of Portuguese rightist rule, he pays tribute to the songs of José Afonso with A Jazzar No Zeca. To begin to ...