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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two From Ted Rosenthal

by Elliott Simon
October 4, 2003

Pianist Ted Rosenthal's latest releases reveal an expert craftsman and an inventive artist who is most capable when expanding and interweaving circumscribed genres and styles. Witness the 3 B's , a solo endeavor that reprises Bill Evans, Bud Powell, and Beethoven. Rosenthal makes use of the piano's full scope adding inspired innovations to well-known pieces. The ...

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Article: Interview

Elevate Me: Michael Blake's New York World-Jazz

by Todd R. Brown
October 1, 2003

Imagine Duke Ellington's orchestra swinging by camelback caravan through the marketplace of Tangier, Morocco, or Miles Davis and crew funky-tonkin' up the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, and you'll get an idea of what saxophonist and composer Michael Blake's approach to jazz is. Blake, who plays this year's JVC Jazz Festiva in New York ...

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Article: Book Review

Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz

by Joel Roberts
October 1, 2003

Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz Terry Gibbs with Cary Ginell Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810845865 2003 Terry Gibbs' style as a storyteller is a lot like his style as one of the top vibes players in jazz history – spirited, frenetic, quirky and highly entertaining. And ...

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Article: Live From New York

October 2003

by David Adler
October 1, 2003

Circumstances conspired to keep me away from the month-long 50th birthday celebration of September’s AAJ-NY cover icon, John Zorn, at Tonic. I was counting on catching Derek Bailey’s performance with Zorn and Ikue Mori toward the end of the month, only to find out that Bailey, afflicted with bronchitis, bailed. All the same, happy birthday, Mr. ...

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Article: New York Beat

Rosa Passos: Brazilian Guitarist, Composer, Vocalist

by Nick Catalano
October 1, 2003

It has been forty years since the extraordinary samba jazz of Brazil was first introduced to mass audiences in the United States. Great composer/instrumentalists like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and Milton Nascimento have given way to another generation of spectacular talents like Ivan Lins, Dori Caymmi, Ary Barroso and Elis Regina. Leading American performers from ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

Blackout! — The massive power failure that darkened cities from New York to Michigan on August 14 took a healthy chunk out of the month’s jazz calendar. As part of Tonic’s FONT series (Festival of New Trumpets, co-curated by Dave Douglass and Roy Campbell, Jr.), Bill Dixon was to have played a solo concert, marking his ...

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Article: Live From New York

August 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

David S. Ware/Henry Grimes — Much has already been said and written about the return of veteran bassist Henry Grimes, found living in poverty in California after a three-decade disappearance. Grimes returned to a New York stage for the first time at the Vision Festival in May, but it was at Iridium, during a three-night double ...

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Article: Live From New York

July 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

Schedule overload and a poorly timed bout of illness forced me to miss Carla Bley’s big band fun at Iridium, as well as tenorist Bill McHenry’s Village Vanguard debut, playing trio alongside Charlie Haden and Paul Motian (and on a different night, fronting his sextet with Motian, Ethan Iverson, Duane Eubanks, Reid Anderson, and Ben Monder). ...

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Article: Live From New York

June 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

Vision Festival — Pressing family matters kept me away throughout Memorial Day weekend, including the widely heralded return of Henry Grimes. But the annual festival got off to a strong start with the pulsating abstractions of Joe and Mat Maneri with drummer Randy Peterson, and live improv dancing by Christine Coppola. DJ Spooky and the deep-voiced ...

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Article: Album Review

Barry Harris: Live in New York

Read "Live in New York" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 25, 2003

Do they give Grammy Awards for the best performance by an underrated jazz performer? If they do, last year's winner would have to have been saxman Von Freeman's The Improvisor. This year the top nominee would have to be pianist Barry Harris, for Live in New York. Harris has been playing jazz in the mode of ...