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Article: Record Label Profile

Mosaic Records

by David Adler
May 5, 2003

Talking to Michael Cuscuna while Nelly's “Hot In Herre" plays on the jukebox is about as strange a dissonance as modern life has to offer. Cuscuna is the head of Mosaic Records and one of the most prolific reissue producers in the business. His work takes him deep inside the tape vaults, far away from the ...

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Article: Live From New York

May 2003

by David Adler
May 3, 2003

The Heath Brothers — At their gigs, the idle chatter takes place on the bandstand, not among the audience. The Heath Brothers — saxophonist Jimmy, bassist Percy, and drummer Albert (“Tootie”) — are swinging, tight, and wildly irreverent. They treat the Village Vanguard bandstand as their living room (locker room?), cracking off-color jokes, laughing with and ...

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Article: New York Beat

A Harpist and a Harpy

by Nick Catalano
May 3, 2003

A few years ago, amid the reams of jazz press releases and publicity blurbs that I receive each month, I noticed a piece about South American Roberto Perera who was recording a group which featured his own playing of the Paraguyan harp. Immediately, I sought to discern the principal differences between this instrument and the traditional ...

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Article: Book Review

The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
April 18, 2003

The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings Ben Ratliff Times Books, Henry Holt and Company. New York, 2002 ISBN 0-8050-7068-0 Here is a clear example of superb music writing: “Here we enter two ...

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Article: Album Review

Pete Malinverni: Autumn in New York

Read "Autumn in New York" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
April 17, 2003

Dedicated to two friends who heroically perished on that fatal New York autumn morning, the stark black and white “In Memoriam" look of pianist Pete Malinverni's new release belies the hope that lies within. Malinverni reprises the Vernon Duke classic title and tastefully uses his friends' courageous acts to deliver a prayer of hope to the ...

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Article: Megaphone

Ellery Eskelin: Twenty Years in New York City - A Short Reflection

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2003

This article was submitted on behalf of Ellery Eskelin. The year was 1979 and I was nineteen. It had been my intention to become a jazz musician ever since I was ten. So with New York being the jazz capital of the world and all, I decided it was time to see it ...

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Article: Profile

Encore: Teddy Charles

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2003

Over a post blizzard mid-February brunch just off Central Park West, one of jazz' neglected masters, Teddy Charles (who turns 75 this month) recalled one of his first recordings - clarinetist Buddy DeFranco's 1949 sextet featuring drummer Max Roach and guitarist Jimmy Raney. Six months prior was the vibraphonist's recording debut which was with Chubby Jackson's ...

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Article: Profile

Ray Barretto: Homage to Art Blakey

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2003

By Russ Musto As he approaches his 74th birthday, Ray Barretto is the world's most famous conga player, the elder statesman of salsa. Unlike most other septuagenarians Barretto is neither looking forward to retirement or back on his career. Instead, he is reveling in a new role--that of leader of a jazz band. ...

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Article: Profile

Pianist Dave Burrell

by Matt Rand
April 5, 2003

"I just played at the Philadelphia Art Museum ," says pianist Dave Burrell. “It was a white tablecloth kind of night. It was right after the big snowstorm, and everybody was just wanting to relax. So I played ballads. I knew from the clientele that it wasn't a kind of audience that wanted to go into ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Intakt Records

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 5, 2003

“We didn't want to have a label. We told people we would do one record, maybe two." So says Patrik Landolt, executive director and one of the founders of the highly regarded Swiss label Intakt. Landolt was working as a journalist at the leftist weekly he founded (and still edits) 17 years ago ...