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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Bad Plus and Good For Cows

by Terrell Kent Holmes
July 11, 2004

The Bad Plus Give Sony-Columbia 2004 The Bad Plus, jazz's ground breaking trio, have followed up their acclaimed release These Are the Vistas with Give , a disc that reaffirms the band's intentions to do nothing conventional, and to shift the music's landscape. The format of the disc is similar: ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bassists Together

by A. Henkin
July 11, 2004

Phillips/Léandre/Parker/Saitoh After You Gone Victo 2004 In May 2002, German bassist Peter Kowald played a remarkable duet with William Parker at the Victo Festival in Canada. Sadly, Kowald would pass away a short four months later; posthumously, a slew of new recordings with or for him have been released. One ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Lukas Ligeti's Free Zone Series

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
July 11, 2004

There can never be enough venues for creative, improvised music. And there aren't any clubs on the upper west side serving this music and catering to the potential interest of Columbia students and the resurgence of Harlem.Enter the Free Zone Series: a weekly concert program curated by drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti and guitarist/promoter/designer Ty Cumbie. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Mario Escalera Times Two

by Elliott Simon
July 11, 2004

Mario Escalera Ballads Blues and Boleros Vol 1 Phoenix Two very different discs from Mario Escalera highlight the breadth of his compositional skills and the inherent soulfulness of his playing regardless of format. From this tenor man who doubles on flute, Ballads, Boleros and Blues Vol 1, is a 1990 live date ...

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Article: Profile

Pete Malinverni

by Mitchell Seidel
July 10, 2004

Pete Malinverni readily admits that when he was six years old, the thought of taking piano lessons “was a cool idea." “But it wasn't that long after that that I started to kind of battle my folks, unfortunately. But they prevailed, and, of course, I'm thankful," he added. “I guess I showed a ...

Article: Book Review

The New York Times Essential Library--Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings

by Colin Fleming
July 10, 2004

Jazz, like several twentieth century art forms, has for decades seemed to gain acceptance as a scholarly concern in part because of a number of renowned writers and critics heralding something that was once, remarkably, regarded as vulgar, base entertainment for the base masses, and now deemed America's indigenous artistic progeny. As with James Agee and ...

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Article: Live Review

Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (FIMAV) 2004

by AAJ Staff
July 9, 2004

Driving up to Victoriaville (located 100 miles northwest of Montreal) with several other “respectable journalists", an approximate eight hour road trip from Manhattan to the Quebec city, I was introduced to an oasis and forum for unfettered improvisational music that annually visits this small town. It is known as the Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (FIMAV). ...

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Article: Profile

John Handy

by AAJ Staff
July 8, 2004

Though alto saxophonist John Handy was officially a member of Charles Mingus' group for only a few months, his recordings with the renowned tough bandleader have since become classics: Ah Um (Columbia), Blues and Roots (Atlantic), and Jazz Portrait: Mingus in Wonderland (United Artists) all were recorded in the beginning of the same year - 1959. ...

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Article: Album Review

Libby York: Sunday in New York

Read "Sunday in New York" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
July 4, 2004

The selections chosen for vocalist Libby York’s new offering, Sunday in New York, find this classically cool song stylist in what seems to be familiar territory. A trio led by pianist Renee Rosnes is very comfortable with itself and includes her aptly named sidemen: drummer and husband Billy Drummond and bassist Todd Coolman. The three have ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Clean Feed Records

by Clifford Allen
July 3, 2004

Anthony Braxton once said (and I paraphrase him here liberally) that one of his grandest ideas in music was to arrange improvising orchestras at various points in the solar system and connect them via satellite to play as one universal creative music orchestra. It is a grandiose scheme indeed, but one that cuts to the heart ...