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Article: Megaphone

Charles Lloyd: A Reporter of Life's Experience

by AAJ Staff
November 6, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Charles Lloyd At 65, approaching my 66th year, I am playing with one of the greatest bands I have had. Geri Allen, Robert Hurst, Eric Harland and on special occasions we make it a quintet with John Abercrombie. Each time we play together the waters get ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Music Inn

by Elliott Simon
November 5, 2003

...in our desire for beauty in all things we are open, and one in our search for that little city of gold where the flute-player never wearies, and the spring never fades, and the oracle is not silent, that little city which is the house of art, and where, with all the Music of the Spheres, ...

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Article: New York Beat

Racism in Jazz: Writing and Reporting

by Nick Catalano
November 3, 2003

For obvious reasons, writing about racism is a painful experience. Jazz is a complex art form and I have always felt that the primary responsibilities of a critic/writer are to educate the public by reporting on performances, recordings and artists, to promulgate an objective critical response to the musical evolution and to guard against the errors, ...

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Article: Live Review

Big Band Swing Slam at Copacabana

by Daniel Kassell
November 2, 2003

Swing is Back! And the Copacabana was the Place, 560 West 34th Street at 11th Avenue, NYC on October 25th, 2003 for Broadway Musical Director Danny Holgate and a band of journeymen musicians who would “transform us back to the classic 1940's and ‘50's Night Club Era” according to Tiffany Wright, the evening’s hostess. I recognized ...

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Article: Live From New York

November 2003

by David Adler
November 1, 2003

Remember Shakti — Easily one of the most moving and memorable performances of the year. At the Town Hall, a rock-star reception greeted not only the great John McLaughlin, but also his fellow members of Remember Shakti — Zakir Hussain on tabla, U. Shrinivas on electric mandolin and V. Selvaganesh on kanjira (Indian tambourine), ghatam (clay ...

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Article: Profile

Ellery Eskelin

by AAJ Staff
October 29, 2003

By Sean Patrick Fitzell The framed promotional posters and paintings on the walls of saxophonist Ellery Eskelin's apartment tell a story. Mementos from European tours with his trio and collaborations with influential drummers Han Bennink and Daniel Humair fit comfortably alongside family photos. While illustrating the diversity of his projects and suggesting their ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Concord Records

by AAJ Staff
October 29, 2003

Submitted on behelf of Steven Robinson From Concord, Concord Jazz, Concord Picante, and The Jazz Alliance, to its joint ventures and alliances with Stretch Records, Feinery, Peak Records, and Playboy Jazz - Concord Records is presently in midst of its 30th Anniversary celebration. In 1973, Carl Jefferson, car dealer and local ...

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Article: Profile

Saxophonist Tony Malaby

by Matt Rand
October 28, 2003

Tony Malaby is wearing running pants and sandals. His window is wide open to the street out front and the chilly air that the sunset is bringing in. He has just gotten off the phone with the Knitting Factory, working out the particulars for the June 30th CD release party for his upcoming album, Apparitions.

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Article: Profile

Legends of the Clarinet: Buddy DeFranco & Tony Scott

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Russ Musto When the JVC Jazz Festival presents Legends of the Clarinet at the Iridium from June 17th-22nd it will mark the return of the bebop era's two greatest innovators of that instrument, now largely neglected in jazz, to the place where they both began to develop as the ...

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Article: Profile

A World of Trombone: Slide Hampton & Bob Brookmeyer

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Jonathan Davidson Ask any lay listener to list the most influential jazz saxophonists of the 20th Century and you're likely to come up with a short list including Coltrane, Bird and a few others. But, ask an educated musician the same question and that list would expand to dozens. ...