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Article: Book Review

Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It

by David Rickert
February 17, 2005

Howard E. Fischer Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It Sundog Ltd. ISBN: 1-932203-87-7 134 pages In 2002 Congress provided one million dollars for the development of a jazz museum in Harlem. What many people may not recall is ...

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Article: Profile

Henry Threadgill Makes A Move

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 14, 2005

Henry Threadgill isn't hesitant to state his place in music. He has, he said quite plainly, “changed music both horizontally and vertically." His work isn't “strident," he said. “It doesn't strike you. You might think you know what's going on, but try to analyze it." And he states it, perhaps, ...

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Article: Profile

Edgar Bateman Jr.

by Andrew Rowan
February 13, 2005

Drummer Edgar Bateman Jr. has been around music his entire life. An aunt played piano, her husband played trumpet in jazz bands, and, ironically, his sister introduced him to the drums. Because of a childhood illness (rheumatic fever and an enlarged heart), he was not allowed strenuous activity. But his sister was in the drum corps, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Love Songs: Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne & Nina Simone

by Andrew Rowan
February 12, 2005

Many jazz purists shy away from collections, opting for the artists' original CDs. But collections have their purpose. My first vocal jazz recording was on Columbia Records: Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah. It led to my lifelong affection for jazz singers. These Love Songs collections present three of the most distinctive American singers of ...

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Article: Film Review

Derek Bailey: Playing For Friends on 5th Street

by A. Henkin
February 11, 2005

Derek Bailey Playing For Friends on 5th Street Straw2Gold Pictures 2004 This DVD is dedicated to the late Irving Stone and his wife Stephanie, once ubiquitous at NYC avant-garde concerts. Sadly, it can also be considered a dedication to Bailey himself, now retired due to ill health. But is also ...

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Article: Interview

Lou Grassi: Joining Two Worlds

by Rico Cleffi
February 11, 2005

Drummer Lou Grassi has appeared on over two dozen sessions in addition to serving up over a half dozen of his own CDs, many at the helm of his Po Band group which has featured such special guests as Sun Ra Arkestra saxophonist and bandleader Marshall Allen, the legendary Danish saxophonist John Tchicai and Art Ensemble ...

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Article: Profile

Matt Wilson: Connecting with the People

by Celeste Sunderland
February 10, 2005

Two sticks beat incessantly on a snare and a tom while a third rests snuggly in Matt Wilson's armpit. Poised on his steed of a stool, arched foot tapping methodically on the high-hat pedal, the bespectacled, mock turtleneck wearing, just-turned-forty-year-old resembles a Revolutionary War hero. In reality he's a New York jazz musician on stage at ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Branford Marsalis: Eternal & The Steep Anthology

by Russ Musto
February 9, 2005

Taken together these two CDs chronicle Branford Marsalis' 20-year recording career as a leader, documenting his ascent as one of the most recognized artists of his generation. There is much excellent music on both discs, but because they are so fundamentally different in temperament it is very likely that many fans who are totally enthralled with ...

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Article: Album Review

Rick Parker Collective: New York Gravity

Read "New York Gravity" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
February 9, 2005

New York Gravity is an object lesson in how hard bop may be kept applicable to the 21st Century. There isn't a false or dishonest note on the entire album. Instead of recycling the improvisational or compositional strategies of the early 1960s, these musicians dance through a rigorous array of changing time signatures and hip chord ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

HatHut Records: Expanding Scope and Vision

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 8, 2005

Over three decades and 300 releases, HatHut has been on top of not just the changing styles in improvised music--what the label has termed “music of the future"--but innovative ways to market the fluctuating form. From the red-box LP covers to the orange-spined CD sleeves and under the rubrics hatMUSICS, hatART, hatOLOGY, hat[now]ART and hatNOIR, Hat ...