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Article: Book Review

Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz

by Joel Roberts
January 12, 2005

Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz Joshua Berrett Yale University Press 2004 ISBN 0-300-10384-0 The worst thing that ever happened to Paul Whiteman's legacy was the 1930 film that dubbed him “the King of Jazz." Largely as a result of that unfortunate moniker ...

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Article: Album Review

Scorch Trio: Luggumt

by Ty Cumbie
January 12, 2005

The opening notes of Luggumt have justifiably provoked comparisons with Jimi Hendrix. Guitarist Raoul Björkenheim gives an emphatic nod to the psychedelic rock god, then takes the electric guitar to places even he might never have reached had he lived as long. Luggumt , the second recording from this Finno-Norwegian trio, begins with ...

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Article: Album Review

Wynton Marsalis: Unforgivable Blackness

Read "Unforgivable Blackness" reviewed by Riel Lazarus

by Riel Lazarus
January 12, 2005

Who better to invoke the past in tune than Wynton Marsalis? After all, the stick-in-the-mud trumpet virtuoso reveres the days of yore as few others playing today, proffering them nightly before sellout crowds the world round. So when the gig came up to score Ken Burns' new documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack ...

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Article: Live From New York

January 2005

by AAJ Staff
January 10, 2005

The Lower East Side's Issue Project Room hosted Elliott Sharp's premier solo acoustic guitar performance project of Thelonious Monk compositions on Dec. 10th. One of few guitar players devoted to helping free the instrument from respective genre-related gimmicks and listener expectations, Sharp slyly presented Monk themes by either taking the liberty to venture from any semblance ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Miles Davis 1963-1964

by Russ Musto
January 9, 2005

Miles Davis Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis, 1963-1964 Columbia Legacy 2004 This seven-disc box set documenting the final phase of what is generally referred to as the “transitional period" between two of the greatest Miles Davis bands, details some of the innovative trumpeter's finest work, including ...

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Article: Album Review

Yaron Herman/Sylvain Ghio: Takes 2 to Know 1

Read "Takes 2 to Know 1" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 8, 2005

Though the piano/drums duo format is not unprecedented (Russ Freeman and Shelly Manne were doing it back in the early '50s), the Sean Lennon look-alike, Israeli-residing-in-Paris pianist Yaron Herman avoids the seemingly inevitable avant-garde tendencies that this experimental pairing has conveniently evolved into over the decades. A very thematic player who remains conscious of ...

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Article: Album Review

Dr. Michael White: Dancing in the Sky

Read "Dancing in the Sky" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
January 8, 2005

I've had the good fortune to spend the last few New Year's Eves in New Orleans, sampling the Crescent City's always-tasty menu of music, food and high-spirited holiday hospitality. But if I were back here in New York and looking for a place to usher in the year with appropriate laissez le bon temps roule flair, ...

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Article: Album Review

Stuff Smith: Hot Stuff

Read "Hot Stuff" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
January 8, 2005

After a long career in the United States, the great jazz violinist Stuff Smith (1909-67) moved to Copenhagen in 1965. Many recordings exist from this fertile period in Smith's career. The new CD Hot Stuff is a reissue of the previously out-of-print Live at Montmarte , recorded in 1965, combined with four tracks from Hot Violins ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Mike Wofford & Holly Hofmann

by Elliott Simon
January 7, 2005

Mike Wofford Trio Live at Athenaeum Jazz Capri 2004 Pianist Mike Wofford's trio allows this in demand vocal accompanist and arranger to stretch out and lead the way with a swinging rhythm section that includes master drummer Victor Lewis and top NYC bassist Peter Washington. Live at Athenaeum Jazz captures ...

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Article: Album Review

Ed Neumeister Quartet: New Standards

Read "New Standards" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
January 7, 2005

A mainstay for leaders from Dixieland through swing, the T-bone never quite recovered from bop, the unfortunate result being that inventive trombone-led combos have been few and far between. However, one listen to New Standards from trombonist Ed Neumeister's quartet, makes it clear that things needn't have turned out the way they did. With ...