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Article: Record Label Profile

Omnitone Records

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
April 5, 2004

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much commonality between the titles on the OmniTone record label. From piano-vibraphone duets to 18-piece big bands, the diversity of the catalog reflects the growing experimentation in modern, creative, improvised music. Like its name implies, OmniTone seeks “all the sounds”, reflecting founder and president Frank Tafuri’s notion of ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2004

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2004

In addition to several CD release concert events - including guitarist Dom Minasi's Time Will Tell (CDM), an already highly regarded turnabout project of strings (cellist Tomas Ulrich and bassist Ken Filiano) and drums at Tonic, and bassist Cameron Brown's Hear and Now group (featuring the ever musical vocalist Sheila Jordan) which celebrated the official release ...

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Article: Live From New York

April 2004

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2004

The Free Zone, curated by guitarist and man-about-town Ty Cumbie, transpires every Thursday night on the bottom floor of the Jazz on the Park youth hostel. The evenings usually revolve around a single artist who plays the first set, then joins in an impromptu collaboration with a handful of select guests. Free Zone #27 (March 11th) ...

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Article: Megaphone

Ken Hatfield: The Economics of Music

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2004

By Ken Hatfield For the last quarter century jazz musicians have been increasingly marginalized by the shortsighted bottom line mentality that dominates the music industry. This same shortsighted approach in other industries is currently sending white-collar jobs overseas (to join the many blue-collar jobs that left over the past two decades), but that ...

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Article: New York Beat

Small Labels, Big Talent and Dedicated Producers

by Nick Catalano
March 31, 2004

Mark Feldman is a practicing physician in Kingston N.Y. but several times a month he trots down to recording studios in Gotham to don his other hat- Jazz CD producer. For many years Dr. Feldman and his gifted wife Kayla have painstakingly chosen talent, hired engineers, analyzed master recordings marketed product and in many other capacities ...

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Article: Profile

In the Spirit: Alice Coltrane

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 16, 2004

Alice Coltrane walked out onstage, joining an ensemble led by her son Ravi on a recent and historic night at Joe's Pub. The bassist Darryl Hall played an immediately recognizable four-note line and the group (also featuring drummer E.J. Strickland) launched into the only reasonable song they could have chosen for the evening, if one that ...

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Article: Interview

Houston Person

by Russ Musto
March 15, 2004

Houston Person is jazz' working class hero, a true man of the people. Person who was born in Newberry, South Carolina in 1934, first received moderate national attention with a series of soulful albums recorded for Prestige back in the '60s. In 1968 he began a sympathetic and successful musical partnership with the great Etta Jones ...

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Article: Profile

Bassist John Ore

by Riel Lazarus
March 15, 2004

In days long passed, when the New York jazz scene resembled the open range, musicians played long and hard for next to nothing - a pittance. Young artists would patiently take their lumps at jam sessions, in an attempt to hone their blooming skills and maybe, just maybe, be plucked by a reputable bandleader.

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Article: Album Review

Barry Harris: Live in New York

Read "Live in New York" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 13, 2004

Maestro Barry Harris, who's never at a loss for an appropriate note or phrase, leads a well-coordinated quintet through its paces on this smooth-as-velvet but no less invigorating date, recorded 'on location' (we're not told where) in New York City. Harris, one of the leading bop pianists of the past forty years and now ...

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Article: Megaphone

Trevor Watts: A Life of Musical Integrity

by AAJ Staff
March 13, 2004

By Trevor Watts It's always been important for me to follow my muse, whatever that is. It seems to manifest itself in a subconcious need to do something, change something, explore something. Entwined with a feeling of staving off habit, boredom and self satisfaction. The need to explore new avenues for oneself. These new ...