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Charlie Haden: Liberation Music

by Clifford Allen
January 9, 2004

The unaccompanied bass solo is something which cropped up with ever-increasing frequency on free jazz recordings during the ‘60s and ‘70s; yet unlike some front line players, these unaccompanied forays were often soliloquies rather than monologues. The introspection and depth of feeling (attributable to the sheer physicality of wood, gut string and horsehair or fingers) made ...

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Article: Year in Review

All About Jazz: New York Best of 2003

by A. Henkin
January 7, 2004

We've created several best of lists for 2003 ranging from the best live shows to the best reissues. Enjoy!Quick LinksBest New Releases Of 2003 Musicians Of The Year Musicians To Watch Best Vocal Releases Best Latin Releases Unearthed Gems Best Reissues Best Shows Of 2003 Best Record Labels Books Of The Year

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Trumpeter Enrico Rava

by A. Henkin
January 5, 2004

For those who maintain that jazz is purely an American music, go check your record collection and see how many times the name Enrico Rava shows up. The trumpeter in many ways defines Italian jazz as well as how the music has become an international phenomenon. Rava's accomplishments are myriad. “I think I ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

2004 International Association for Jazz Education Conference

by Russ Musto
January 3, 2004

If jazz audiences in New York City seem a bit larger, better educated and more diverse than usual during the third week of January this year it will be because they probably are. The International Association for Jazz Education is holding its 31st Annual International Conference here, scheduled to attract more than 7,000 jazz musicians, teachers, ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Delmark Records

by Elliott Simon
January 2, 2004

Few independent labels can claim a 50-year history of seminal releases that changed the course of both blues and jazz. In fact, there is only one: Chicago's Delmark Records. While being the first to record the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (Roscoe Mitchell's Sound) and Sun Ra (Sun Song), Delmark was also first with ...

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Article: New York Beat

Jazz in the New Year

by Nick Catalano
December 31, 2003

One of the most enduring and pleasant series that Gotham has enjoyed in recent years is Walker’s “Sundays with Peter Leitch and special guests.” Walker’s is one of the city’s ancient pubs down in Tribeca (16 N. Moore at Varick) and has a special atmosphere that can cheer you up and feed you well of a ...

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Article: Interview

McCoy Tyner: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

by AAJ Staff
December 17, 2003

For the better part of nearly five decades McCoy Tyner has remained the most pervasively influential, highly acclaimed, widely imitated jazz pianist in the world ' universally acknowledged for the invention of a style that continues to be uniquely personal, powerfully passionate and consummately creative. From his early association with the great John Coltrane, through his ...

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Buell Neidlinger: From Taylor to Zappa to the Carpenters

by Clifford Allen
December 16, 2003

Bassist Buell Neidlinger, born March 2, 1936, has had in many respects a genre-defying career. A child prodigy on cello, Buell graduated to bass and playing Dixieland in New York during the early ‘50s. It wasn’t long, however, before he joined the bass chair of the first Cecil Taylor quartet (including soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

CIMP (Creative Improvised Music Projects)

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
December 14, 2003

The music doesn't sound like anything you've heard before. The art and packaging doesn't look like other CDs either. And that's exactly the point. Since 1995, founder and executive producer Robert Rusch has been recording and releasing music on his label CIMP--Creative Improvised Music Projects--with a personal touch. “I put my stamp on it ...

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Article: Opinion

Min Xiao-Fen: Prove, Improve, Improvise

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2003

By Min Xiao-Fen I still remember when I was ten years old, my father, Min Ji-Qian - a professor, educator and pipa* master at Nanjing Normal University in China - was teaching one of my classmates. He lent one of his pipas to her, and I immediately got so jealous. Ever since then, ...