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Article: Live Review

Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2004

by Ken Franckling
September 29, 2004

Tanglewood's 15th annual Labor Day jazz festival weekend opened with two distinct sides of Latin jazz that together offered a shifting balm for a mild end-of-summer evening. Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias' quartet offered the cool and warm portions of the evening, with a long set that covered her lilting approach to the American Songbook and many ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Pass: Virtuoso in New York

Read "Virtuoso in New York" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
September 29, 2004

When it comes to bountiful vault holdings, few musicians can compare with the oeuvre established by guitarist Joe Pass. As the Pablo label's plectral staple his tape stacks rival and possibly even surpass those of Norman Granz's other resident factotum, Oscar Peterson. The steady crop of titles (one or two each year) that continue to find ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Nagel Heyer Records

by Elliott Simon
September 28, 2004

The 26th of August marked twelve years since the Nagel Heyers: Frank, Sabine and Hans, celebrated George Gershwin's birthday. They did so with a concert that featured improvisational interpretations of some of “Mr. Music's" most famous tunes. The keepsake recording of that event, with trombonist George Masso, clarinetist Ken Peplowski, tenor man Danny Moss and trumpeter ...

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Article: Album Review

Wayne Escoffery: Intuition

Read "Intuition" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
September 25, 2004

I was all prepared to dislike Intuition , the new CD from tenor man Wayne Escoffery. I do admit though that it was my own prejudices coming out. I have a problem with 29-year-old, hazel-eyed, 200-pound, 6 foot 4 sax players with 34-inch waists. I mean someone who looks like they should be posing for the ...

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Article: Album Review

Rosa Passos: Amorosa

Read "Amorosa" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
September 25, 2004

Recent projects with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and bassist Ron Carter have given Brazilian vocalist/guitarist Rosa Passos wider and much deserved recognition. With the release of Amorosa, the long time queen of Brazilian bossa nova has offered up one of the most titillating CDs of the year. Amorosa features new arrangements of songs associated with Antonio Carlos ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Locke & 4 Walls Of Freedom: Dear Life

Read "Dear Life" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
September 25, 2004

Consider the following: A musical concept that allows for total freedom within the context of the four walls of melody, rhythm, harmony and form is brought to fruition. Each player brings to this space instrumental virtuosity, a unique timbre, and a personal sense of dynamics and coloration. The first heady energetic foray into these circumscribed confines ...

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Article: Interview

Willem Breuker

by A. Henkin
September 17, 2004

Willem Breuker's music is an experience--part circus, part orchestra, part theater. The man himself is no less complex and some of his thoughts on being a musician bely his humour and good nature. At Joe's Pub this month with his long-standing Kollektief, Breuker spoke with All About Jazz. All About Jazz: Let's start ...

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Article: Profile

Bill Frisell's Big Ocean

by Celeste Sunderland
September 14, 2004

Sometimes music creates such an intense atmosphere that it begins to control the listener's breathing. The pulse connects to the tempo. Touch becomes intensely sensual, while the mind drifts to otherworldly realms. When Bill Frisell plays his guitar every wavering, undulating, sustaining note hangs in the air until the room fills with an invisible, dreamlike fog, ...

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Article: Live Review

Caramoor Jazz Festival

by David Adler
September 10, 2004

On the second Saturday of this year's Caramoor Jazz Festival (an hour north of the Apple), Sheila Jordan sang “Autumn in New York". That's how it felt, though it was early August. Enjoying the cool breeze, and Jordan's outsized personality, was one of Caramoor's main highlights. Pianist Steve Kuhn, with Cameron Brown on bass and Billy ...

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Article: Profile

Trombonist Steve Swell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
September 7, 2004

Forks in the road. Eternal moments harbor choices consciously made or Decisions instinctively followed. These lines, the opening stanza to trombonist Steve Swell's poem “Transitions", distill the essence of his professional career. In three decades, Swell has traveled many roads and been faced with many decisions. From his early days in “show ...