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Art Davis: All That Jazz Ain't All That Jazz

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

By Art Davis Many of us know the history and derivations of this topic. There can be numerous dissertations that I could present but I shall focus on education. All too often, while teaching a jazz history class, I encounter students who think that “Bird" is a famous basketball player. There ...

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Patty Waters

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 14, 2003

To contemporary ears, ESP is a legendary label marking some of the lesser known free jazz experiments of the ‘60s, with a catalogue including titles by Frank Lowe, Sunny Murray, Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, Milford Graves and Sun Ra. But during its course, from 1964 to 1975 (with many of the titles reissued by a variety ...

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Horace Parlan

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Riel Lazarus Much of pianist Horace Parlan's distinguished jazz life has been marked by an intriguing series of ebbs and flows. At times his artistry has received the attention and praise it deserves, while at others it has been curiously overlooked and neglected. All the more interesting is that ...

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Henry Grimes

by A. Henkin
October 14, 2003

By now the news that Henry Grimes, veteran bass player and stylistic maven, has resurfaced is well-documented. The efforts of Atlanta social worker Marshall Marotte to find the 64-year-old Grimes, out of jazz or any music for over 30 years, has been written about in periodicals such as Signal to Noise (the original newsbreaker) and the ...

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Robin Kenyatta

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

When alto saxophonist Robin Kenyatta's name appeared in the concert listings here in New York back in mid-late May, an AAJ trip was made to trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah's jazz club, Sista's Place, in the heart of Brooklyn. Kenyatta has lived in Switzerland for 20 years (where he ran a music school and taught), as well as ...

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Eddie Gale

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

Eddie Gale's recent mid-April Brooklyn Jazz Festival appearance at Sista's Place was a grand welcome back event which the trumpeter fondly recalls as being a big reunion of friends and folks he hadn't seen since he was a teenager. People showed up who hadn't known what happened to Gale, himself born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn ...

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Article: Album Review

Gerald Wilson Orchestra: New York, New Sound

Read "New York, New Sound" reviewed by Russell Moon

by Russell Moon
October 14, 2003

The great West Coast arranger Gerald Wilson has taken the charts from some of his most popular recordings, brought them to New York, and recorded with a band made up of many widely respected musicians. The result is New York, New Sound on Stix Hooper's Mack Avenue label. There is good and bad news here. The ...

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Gerald Wilson Orchestra: New York, New Sound

Read "New York, New Sound" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier

by J. Robert Bragonier
October 14, 2003

Of all of the historic big bands of the ‘40s, none has been more perennially overlooked than that of Gerald Wilson. For those of us on the left coast who wear insecurity on our sleeves like epaulets, the fact that Wilson’s career has primarily been associated with the Los Angeles jazz scene seems explanation enough for ...

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Article: Interview

Sunny Murray

by Clifford Allen
October 14, 2003

Drummer, composer, and bandleader Sunny Murray was born in Idabel, Okla. in 1936. After moving to New York, a brief period of involvement with bebop musicians quickly gave way to several years of playing with Cecil Taylor (CT) in trio, quartet, quintet and septet settings (1959-1965). In addition to his longstanding association with the “88 Tuned ...

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Art Ensemble of Chicago: After Lester Bowie

by Clifford Allen
October 12, 2003

After Lester Bowie, renowned trumpeter and regular Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) member (daresay frontman) passed away in 1999, there was some question as to what the fate of the group would be. Of course, many lesser groups have folded with fewer catalysts than the death of a major contributor. But continue the group did, as ...