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McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments

Read "Tender Moments" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
May 18, 2005

Now 66 years old, McCoy Tyner has made countless albums and become an elder statesman of jazz. He is certainly best known as the pianist in the transformational John Coltrane Quartet of the '60s, but it was with Blue Note recordings like this one from 1967, recently reissued in remastered form, that he revealed his personality ...

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Frank Gratkowski Project: Loft Exil V

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by Donald Elfman
May 18, 2005

In the first movement of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, the composer musically presents the birth of the world and nature, with plants and animals coming to life in a wild and brilliant procession. It's the familiar sound world of the composer translated into a rich tableau that is somehow both familiar and brand new. ...

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Marian McPartland & Friends: 85 Candles - Live in New York

Read "85 Candles - Live in New York" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
May 17, 2005

Pianist Marian McPartland has made a boatload of friends during her many years in jazz. Many of them turned out for her 85th birthday soirée at New York's Birdland club two years ago. That's right, the grand dame of jazz is now 87! Fortunately for jazz history buffs and McPartland fans alike, a large number of ...

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Ahmed Abdullah: Tara

by Jeff Stockton
May 17, 2005

The downtown New York loft jazz of the early '70s, with its blend of free jazz and hard bop, was a great moment in time, and the musical spirit it nurtured endures. Trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah was a part of that scene, as was violinist Billy Bang, whose sound right now is the hottest thing in improvised ...

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John Gunther Trio: In This World

Read "In This World" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
May 17, 2005

The CIMP label has established a sound as distinctive as Blue Note's was in the '60s, but its artistic stance, outlined in the “Statement of Purpose printed on the tray card of each release, causes as much consternation and controversy as the “ECM Sound did in the '70s. Recorded directly to two tracks, in real time ...

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Rick Parker Collective: New York Gravity

Read "New York Gravity" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
May 17, 2005

Happily, trombone-led sessions are making a comeback in modern jazz circles these days, and a listen to the Rick Parker Collective's New York Gravity provides ample evidence of why. A relative newcomer to the NYC environs, Parker has put together a disc with a swinging little big band feel intertwined with a hard bop modernistic edge. ...

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Various Artists: New School University Jazz Program 2004/2005

by AAJ Staff
May 17, 2005

The top-notch jazz program of New School University continues to play a significant role in consistently sending off mature sounding players to infiltrate the New York and global jazz scenes. With a faculty that boasts an impressive jazz veteran roster (trumpeters Charles Tolliver and Jimmy Owens; saxophonists Billy Harper and George Garzone; trombonist Benny Powell; pianists ...

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Bobby Few is Coming Through

by Clifford Allen
May 14, 2005

The course of an expatriate artist can go in several different directions; there are those for whom the experience of living and working in another country provides a deeper understanding of 'home' and 'place,' and for whom a return is necessary, and there are those who find that these things can be found in self and ...

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Satoki Fujii and Natsuki Tamura

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 14, 2005

Satoko Fujii - along with William Parker and Barry Guy - is one of the few pushing the big band into the future and for her part four times over with standing orchestras in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and New York. In addition, she works in duo with Tatsuya Yoshida, Paul Bley and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki ...

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Rich Perry & Harold Danko: East of the Sun & Trilix

by Donald Elfman
May 13, 2005

Rich Perry East of the Sun and west of 2nd Avenue SteepleChase Records 2005 Rich Perry is that rarest of tenor saxophonists--a complete musician with an understanding of space and timing, a palpable sense of color and humor and absolutely no need to showboat or compromise. Whether he's a featured soloist in ...