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Article: Album Review

Katie Bull: Love Spook

Read "Love Spook" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
May 11, 2005

There seem to be more singers today than ever before, but along with that development come a few who are turning around the notion of just what a singer does and can do. Katie Bull is called a multimedia artist, and that notion informs her every note here. She knows the repertoire and she knows the ...

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Article: Film Review

Sun Ra: The Magic Sun

by AAJ Staff
May 10, 2005

Phill Niblock featuring Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra The Magic Sun Atavistic 1966/2005 Stunning visuals and the sounds of Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra fill this classic 1966 black and white short experimental film by composer/photographer/ filmmaker and multi-media artist Phill Niblock. The Arkestra provide its ...

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Article: Live From New York

May 2005

by AAJ Staff
May 10, 2005

Rome Neal's portrayal of Thelonious Monk in the one-man play Monk (Abingdon Theater, through May 8th) is deeply human, steering clear of idolatry and caricature. Jason Zinoman of The Times called it “a pleasant evening... not an emotional ride and one wonders what play he was watching. Laurence Holder's script deals forthrightly with Monk's mental illness ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Freddie Hubbard: Four From Freddie

by AAJ Staff
May 10, 2005

By Francis Lo Kee Freddie Hubbard has led a productive and interesting recording career that has gone through various phases, showing up on revolutionary records of the '60s (with Ornette, Dolphy and Coltrane) and some of the best hard bop, “keeper-of-the-flame sessions, too (as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers). Ready for Freddie ...

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Article: Album Review

Ellis Marsalis: Ruminations in New York

Read "Ruminations in New York" reviewed by Robert R. Calder

by Robert R. Calder
May 10, 2005

This nice, rather than exciting, solo piano set pays tribute, consciously or not, to the late John Lewis's last campaign: on behalf of the Great American Songbook ballads which Lewis insisted were, with the blues, the foundation of jazz since the 1920s. Inspired no doubt by years creating his own melodic lines on Kern, ...

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Keely Smith: Vegas 58 - Today

Read "Vegas 58 - Today" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland

by Celeste Sunderland
May 10, 2005

When Keely Smith sings “I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues, you believe her because she's the kind of woman whose authority goes un-argued. But in a way you doubt her because she's also the sort of lady who would always find her way around the blues. Actually, there's very little blues to be had ...

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Article: Album Review

David Eyges: Ace

Read "Ace" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland

by Celeste Sunderland
May 10, 2005

It's a risky venture to record an album based purely on improvisation. Cellist David Eyges, saxophonist Arthur Blythe, and drummer Abe Speller took a chance going into the studio armed solely with their own individual spontaneous creativity; they left with ten tracks that travel hesitantly through arid realms of a jazz wasteland, reaching desperately for snatches ...

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Bob Feldman: Triplicity

Read "Triplicity" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
May 10, 2005

In Art Taylor's seminal book of interviews, Notes and Tones (Da Capo, 1977/1993), the drummer asks Dexter Gordon what he thinks of free jazz. Gordon's answer is, naturally, ironic and non-committal, but he closes with “although the way you play it [Arthur] is very good. Art Taylor did, after all, have a brief career as a ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Patrick Brennan: Rapt Circle & The Drum is Honor Enough

by Javier AQ Ortiz
May 9, 2005

Altoist Patrick Brennan's latest two releases, under the ever-evolving and exploratory guise of Sonic Openings Under Pressure, aren't threaded the same way, even when weaving the same musical material as he does in Rapt Circle. The aforementioned documents live music from two different presentations in 2002. One of them included percussionist Juma Santos Ayantola, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

John Butcher: Cavern with Nightlife, New Oakland Burr & 13 Friendly Numbers

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 9, 2005

British saxophonist John Butcher has become one of the preeminent voices in the world of veryquiet improv, having been a member of the supergroup Polwechsel and working with such artists as Rhodri Davies, Axel Dorner and Phil Minton. At the same time, he's pushed his horn into the role of feedback machine, close-miking it and turning ...