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Kenny Werner: Naked in the Cosmos & Peace
by Ty Cumbie
Kenny Werner & The Brussels Jazz Orchestra Naked in the Cosmos Jazz n' Pulz 2003 If a single contemporary recording were recommended as cliff notes for an impatient student eager to get a feel for smooth jazz, atmospheric new age elevator music, the angular contortions of Sam Rivers' big band ...
Raphe Malik: Last Set & Sympathy
by Clifford Allen
What is sometimes sorely missed among the current crop of players in the jazz “tradition" (and by “tradition" I mean both straight-ahead and free music) is a sense of weight. This weight, or gravity, is both sonic and metaphysical and improvised music is at a loss without it. While he was a regular member of the ...
Frank Hewitt: We Loved You & Not Afraid to Live
by Celeste Sunderland
Oh the woebegone days of a jazz musician, as he makes his way toward mastery, accompanying many of the greats, struggling to keep abreast of the industry, make a name for himself, playing nightly at local clubs, garnering a base of fans, but most of them poor musicians themselves... Such was the way of life for ...
Gary Windo: Anglo American
by A. Henkin
Sometimes musicians are more famous for their associations. Gary Windo, a late Brit hornman from a period with no end of visionary English saxophonists, may be a strangely familiar name. Check your LP stacks: have anything by the Brotherhood of Breath (BOB)? Ray Russell or Robert Wyatt? Hugh Hopper or Carla Bley? Maybe even NRBQ? If ...
Luis Perdomo: Focus Point
by Russ Musto
Luis Perdomo's maiden voyage as a leader is as impressive a debut disc as any released by a young musician in recent memory. The pianist/composer presents ten original compositions (eight by himself) in a variety of settings (solo, duo, trio, quartet and quintet) that clearly demonstrate how woefully inadequate the term Latin jazz is in describing ...
Legend of the Pharoah
by AAJ Staff
By Jennifer Odell After a recent performance of Before the Blues , a new ballet by the Lines Ballet Company, someone from the audience asked choreographer Alonzo King where he got the idea to pair a Pharoah Sanders composition with music by the baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli. “It was odd ...
Roy Haynes: Quiet Fire
by AAJ Staff
Quiet Fire repackages two oddball Roy Haynes Galaxy discs, Thank You, Thank You (1977) and Vistalite (1978), into one intermittently interesting extra-length CD of duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets and septets. Though the cast is strong (players include George Cables, Stanley Cowell, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, Cecil McBee and Joe Henderson), the music is ...
Ilgenfritz/Khoury/Michalowski/Weaver: Babardah
by Clifford Allen
Free improvisation is a tool, just as paint or the written word, in the process of making art. Art critic Clement Greenberg might roll over in his grave that I quote him on such generic art-making terms, but his oft-repeated line on the modernist process carries some weight here: “Modernism... [is] the use of the characteristic ...
Tim Berne: Hardcell Live
by Ty Cumbie
Here are some jazz musicians who get it and get it all. That is meant in both senses: as in being hip to all the freshest angles in the current state of the music, and as in not messing around. Track one of Hardcell Live establishes this immediately. The complex, edgy theme is attacked with gusto ...
Ted Curson: We Shall Not Soon Forget
by AAJ Staff
By Ted Curson Too many jazz folks have left us this year. But in my career I have had the pleasure of at least a brush with many of them. Robin Kenyatta During the '60s, all musicians worth their salt were worried about their sound and their soloing ...
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