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Article: Multiple Reviews

David Murray: Circles Live in Cracow & We Is

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 8, 2005

In the years since his exile to Paris, David Murray has positioned himself as a champion of jazz history and music of the African diaspora, a sort of Wynton Marsalis of the avant-garde. His projects - from arranging John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to working with musicians from Cuba and Guadaloupe - have been professional and ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Vinny Golia: Birdology & On The Cusp Of Fire And Water

by Clifford Allen
February 8, 2005

Reedman Vinny Golia is to the Los Angeles new music scene today what clarinetist John Carter was in the 30 years following Ornette's West Coast debut. Golia was co-conspirator in one of the most invigorating and versatile reeds-bass-percussion trios on the modern music map, with bassist Roberto Miguel Miranda and California “Sun Percussionist"? Alex Cline. He ...

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Article: Live From New York

February 2005

by AAJ Staff
February 7, 2005

To a sold-out house at the 55 Bar (Jan. 7th), tenorist Chris Potter showcased his new band Underground, featuring Craig Taborn on Rhodes, Nate Smith on drums and, in a rare sideman role, Wayne Krantz on guitar. In this room, where Krantz is a weekly draw, Potter's music seemed decidedly Krantzian - raw and groove-oriented, harmonically ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

George Cables: Looking for the Light & Portal

by Andrew Rowan
February 6, 2005

George Cables is a personal pianist. His harmonic sense, as well as the way he touches the keyboard, the way he comps and the way he phrases, raises him above the pack of competent yet generic players. In his own words, impressed by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, but influenced by John Coltrane and Miles Davis, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Jay Leonhart & John Sheridan: Trios

by Brian P. Lonergan
February 5, 2005

Jay Leonhart Trio Cool Sons of Sound 2004 In the liner notes to his new trio album, Cool , bassist Jay Leonhart writes, “I'm afraid 'Cool' isn't nearly as laid back as the title might imply," and he's right. Rather than the style of jazz, the name refers to the ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

New Orleans: Then and Now

by Joel Roberts
February 4, 2005

The Putumayo catalog generally focuses on the rather amorphous genre of world music, with titles like Brazilian Groove, Women of Africa and Greece: A Musical Odyssey. Two new Putumayo collections, however, cover somewhat less exotic, though no less musically fertile territory: New Orleans. The first disc is devoted to Kermit Ruffins, the trumpeter, ...

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Article: Megaphone

Anat Fort: Make It Happen

by AAJ Staff
February 4, 2005

By Anat Fort Confusing place, New York City. I may be planning on an early night (you know, going to bed around 12-1 am) when I get an email from a burning group that's playing somewhere. Soon enough, my phone rings and it's a friend, going to see this “really amazing band, you ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Mystery to Me-Live in New York

by Phil DiPietro
February 4, 2005

Janek Gwizdala roars out of 2005's gate with a debut CD that not only handily establishes him, at 26, as 2005's best new talent on electric bass but more importantly, should garner him serious consideration for the debut jazz recording of the year. Self-released, self-financed, self-produced and self-penned, there's not an element of this project that's ...

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Article: Book Review

Living with Jazz: A Reader

by Joel Roberts
February 2, 2005

Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Living With Jazz is an apt title for this long overdue first published collection of Dan Morgenstern's writings. The veteran scribe - a former Down Beat editor, current head of Rutgers University's respected Institute of ...

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Article: New York Beat

Marlena Shaw at Jazz Au Bar

by Nick Catalano
February 1, 2005

Of all the references that reviewers use to describe jazz performances perhaps the most common is the term “swing." We are all familiar with it and yet it is one of the most difficult expressions to define precisely. Its essence involves subtle and artistic variations of established rhythms but the many techniques involved in this subtlety ...