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Article: Record Label Profile

HighNote/Savant Records

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

In the mid '60s, when HighNote/Savant president Joe Fields was a young record executive at the Prestige label, he recognized talent in a young saxophone player called Houston Person. “I felt if I were to have a record company, he'd be the kind of artist I'd want," said Fields. Last month Person released his seventh album ...

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Article: Profile

Finding Carla Bley

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

Some people store their collections in cigar boxes. Others display them in glass cases. Pianist/composer Carla Bley buries her collection in the ground behind the upstate New York home she shares with bassist Steve Swallow. It's a collection of treasures culled from exotic locales she tours. Bley collects seeds. Little bunches of lettuce, wild rashes of ...

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Article: Profile

Steven Bernstein

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

Prince can heat up a Detroit night with his slippery tongue and quivering guitar vamps. Trumpet player Steven Bernstein can do as much for a New York jazz club with his slide trumpet and an eight-piece band. On one of his Monday night residency performances last month at the Jazz Standard, Bernstein's group the Millennial Territory ...

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Article: Live Review

Chicago Jazz Festival 2003

by Gary Firstenberg
October 28, 2003

One of the aspects of Chicago's annual jazz festival is its family-friendly atmosphere, which provides children of all ages a chance to learn about jazz, as well as the opportunity to tap their feet to it. Tents lined the main aisle around the stage, offering food and drink, as well as classic videos of historic jazz ...

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Steve Lacy: Straight from the Horn

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

“I wanted to come back. You can't stay away forever. I'm from here, I'm from New York and it was time to come home." Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, whose career began inauspiciously in 1954 on an instrument which would lose its main progenitor in Sidney Bechet five years later, made this statement recently during ...

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Bassist Steve Tintweiss

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

At the end of the summer, Steve Tintweiss, best known as bassist for Albert Ayler and Patty Waters, performed at the renovated bandshell in Forest Park in Queens. The performances, which featured a group including clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Lou Grassi, marked five decades in which Tintweiss had been producing grant-funded concerts in New York ...

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Albert Mangelsdorff: A Legend at 75

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

In the center of Frankfurt, Germany is the stately Old Opera House, Die Alte Oper. Its dignified classical fa'ade houses a remarkably modern interior. The same can be said for trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz star who celebrated his 75th Birthday at the Opera House on Sept. 12th, 2003. A resident of Frankfurt ...

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Article: Opinion

Jazz and Social Protest

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Russ Musto The timeliness of Lincoln Center's Jazz and Social Protest panel discussion was ominously appropriate, convening the evening following Bush's prime time delivery of his St. Patrick's Day Iraq manifesto. All of the members of the gathered group of educator-speakers - revolutionary writer-poet-performer Amiri Baraka, activist playwright-poet Sonia ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steve Lacy: With Mal Waldron and the Beats

by Clifford Allen
October 28, 2003

Steve Lacy / Mal Waldron Live at Dreher Paris 1981 hatOLOGY 2003 According to Steve Lacy, playing Monk's music offered the improviser a way to see what was on “the other side," not just of an individual tune's possibilities, but to a certain sort of harmonic and rhythmic ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Sunnyside Records

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

A girl in a sailor dress skips rope. She's pretty, she's free, she's having fun. She's the logo for Sunnyside Records. Founder Francois Zalacain discovered her on a rubber stamp in a Greenwich Village shop 21 years ago. “It says everything we want to say. Music is about bouncing' dancing. And my wife liked it."