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Article: Live Review

Dave Holland Quintet/New York Big Band

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 1, 2003

Michigan Theater- Ann Arbor, Michigan February 15, 2003 Now the man of the hour, due to his Grammy-winning ECM release What Goes Around, bassist Dave Holland has consistently been one of the most dynamic performers to experience in a concert sitting with the string of consummate ensembles that he has chosen to front ...

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Article: New York Beat

Jazz in Florida, Part II

by Nick Catalano
March 1, 2003

One of the interesting tour challenges for small jazz groups involves creating increased musical dimensions for some of the large concert halls around the country. Often, headliners will invest in charts of their music that have been arranged for big bands and even symphony orchestras. Boca Raton’s Florida Atlantic University auditorium boasts a seating capacity of ...

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Article: Megaphone

David Amram: Poetry and All That Jazz

by David Amram
February 20, 2003

I rarely play clubs anymore, but was recently invited by four different people, including Levi Asher, founder of LitKicks, to perform at four different events at the Bowery Poetry Club during a six week period. All four poets who contacted me, while different from one another, have a common connection to the tradition that Jack Kerouac ...

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Article: Profile

Fred Hersch: Live At the Village Vanguard

by Celeste Sunderland
February 17, 2003

After a seven year period devoted mostly to solo releases and songwriter specific albums, pianist Fred Hersch returns to the trio. Last May, with Drew Gress on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums, he recorded The Fred Hersch Trio: Live At the Village Vanguard (Palmetto), his first trio album since 1995. Shimmering, energetic and personal, the ...

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Article: Profile

Evan Parker: Solo

by A. Henkin
February 17, 2003

As jazz has developed since its inception, it has always centered on individuals working with each other. Over time, the music unit has gotten smaller, from the big band era to the time of small combos and the modern era where solo performance has flourished. What was first only the province of the piano ...

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Article: Profile

Billy Taylor: The Keys to Jazz Education

by Matt Rand
February 17, 2003

If you drop by the mythology section of your local bookstore, you will probably find at least one version of the epic of Sundiata next to Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. But the story of Sundiata, who founded the ancient kingdom of Mali, was not written down thousands of years ago for safe keeping. ...

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Article: Profile

Anita O'Day

by Ed Felper
February 17, 2003

On the cover of her 1960 album Incomparable!, a young and glamorous Anita O’Day wears an iridescent shade of green eyeliner. “And I still wear it,” she recently said over the phone from her Hollywood apartment. She’s not much of a talker, she admits, but she surely is a singer. While she isn’t the busiest woman ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Playscape Recordings

by Elliott Simon
February 14, 2003

A jazz label that fosters development of a group “gestalt" is rare these days; but Playscape Recordings, led by guitarist Michael Musillami, is doing just that. Armed with the late Thomas Chapin's musical dream of compositional creativity coupled with genre transcending excellence, Playscape is connecting the dialectics of classical with jazz and the mainstream with the ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Hyena Records

by Matt Rand
February 14, 2003

The first thing you notice about a Hyena Records release is just that - you notice it. A bright red cover announces each disc, along with a snarling (or is it laughing?) hyena, and the label eschews the traditional jewel case in favor of a plastic Q-pack. “I want people to walk into record stores and ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

The Vinyl Age

by A. Henkin
February 13, 2003

I have a problem. I have stacks of records I have listened to once or twice. I have precious little room for any more. Yet I can't pass by a record store or even a pile of discarded records in a trash bin without stopping and flipping, flipping, flipping. The stains on my fingers are more ...