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Jackie McLean: Destination Out

by Clifford Allen
May 7, 2004

Plagued as we are by historicism, it is not always easy to really hear the music of Charlie Parker as it was played in the clubs or even in studio rehearsals. In some ways, the importance of the artist is more through students and followers than in the firsthand practice of that artist: painter Hans Hofmann ...

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Billy Bang

by Elliott Simon
May 7, 2004

Thirty years ago, violinist Billy Bang began to redefine his instrument?s place in jazz history. A singular voice, he soon joined that handful of individuals who have inventively adapted the violin?s timbre and super soprano range to demanding improvisational music. As such, it is easy to draw a straight evolutionary line from jazz pioneer Stuff Smith ...

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Ben Dixon

by Russ Musto
May 6, 2004

Back in the ‘60s Ben Dixon was one of the busiest musicians on the soul jazz scene as house drummer in the legendary Blue Note Records’ rhythm section, with Big John Patton and Grant Green, that recorded with many of the decade’s funkiest players. Dixon performed on dozens of sessions led by the organist and guitarist ...

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Article: Megaphone

Giacomo Gates: The Five Spot - Zen and Now

by AAJ Staff
May 5, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Giacomo Gates On Sunday afternoon, February 8th, 2004, I did a performance at Wesleyan University, where I am part of the private lesson faculty. The gig was held at Russell House, a beautiful old mansion converted to performance spaces and Philosophy department offices. There was standing room only, with ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

SteepleChase Records

by Riel Lazarus
May 4, 2004

It seems that at the core of all independent jazz record labels, one finds an avid enthusiast aspiring, reaching, clinging at the opportunity to give back a small slice of the music they hold so dear. More often than not, the challenges prove too great for the individual to transcend, and the label folds. But sometimes--with ...

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Article: New York Beat

Spring CD Sampler

by Nick Catalano
May 3, 2004

Each month it seems to get worse... The piles of new CD’s on my shelf grow bigger and bigger and, each month it becomes more and more impossible to make a dent in the pile for even cursory listening not to mention writing reviews. I hesitate to complain because jazz fans everywhere keep reminding me how ...

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Dave Liebman

by AAJ Staff
April 19, 2004

By Mitchell Seidel An accomplished performer and educator, saxophonist David Liebman is a man who can talk as passionately about music as he plays it. An avid follower of John Coltrane, he heard the saxophonist live while still a teenager in New York. Liebman went to perform with the likes of Elvin Jones, ...

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Jeremy Steig

by Celeste Sunderland
April 17, 2004

Artist/flutist Jeremy Steig colored some drawings in a cozy corner of his apartment one night last month, when he spilled a jar of ink. Not a pleasant mess, especially with Frac, Steig's gigantic cat pawing around. So the artist “banished" himself back to his drawing table covered with bamboo pens and Steig Ink (Uncle Arthur invented ...

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Hamiet Bluiett

by Clifford Allen
April 17, 2004

When one thinks of great baritone saxophonists, the list is relatively short: Harry Carney, Serge Chaloff, John Surman and Hamiet Bluiett are the names that come most quickly to mind. Compared to the vast number of tenor and alto players, or even the throngs of soprano-doublers, the baritone is a criminally underrepresented horn. Part of this ...

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Sam Rivers: High Octane Octogenarian

by Russ Musto
April 6, 2004

Sam Rivers is the jazz world’s high octane octogenarian. The energetic 81-year-old multi-instrumentalist may have left New York for Florida, but he’s far from settled and nowhere near retirement. His visionary conception of complex composition and spontaneous creation, unmistakably manifest in the imaginative music of his trio and orchestra, remains revolutionary and yet, unfortunately, largely underestimated ...