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B.Lancaster/ O.Pope/ E.Crockett/ J.R. Mitchell: Philadelphia Spirit in New York

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 2001

Philadelphia certainly seems to receive only grudging affirmation in relation to other urban centers in the larger cosmology of creative improvised music. It’s a crime considering the fact that a solid scene has been thriving there for years. New York and Chicago may have the corner market, but bands like this jointly fronted quartet are surely ...

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Joe Battaglia's N. Y. Big Band: New York Mood

by Dave Nathan
August 1, 2001

There are at least three kinds of big bands on today's scene. The first creates new big band music such as groups led by Carla Bley and Maria Schneider. Then there are those that combine new music with fresh arrangements of classic big band material. A good example here is Pete Peterson's excellent Dallas-based Jazz Collection ...

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Georgie Fame: Georgie Fame: Poet In New York

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

Clive Powell aka Georgie Fame takes us back to the future with a CD that features three tunes of the legendary Pianist/Composer Tadd Dameron: “On A Misty Night", “That's The Way It Goes" and “Accentuate The Bass." Fame has set lyrics to these Dameron classics well as a salute to King Pleasure with a fine rendition ...

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Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd: Live In New York

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by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

It's been more than three decades since saxophonist Archie Shepp and trombonist Roswell Rudd recorded together, and Live In New York reunites them in a perfect setting: live performance. To get the record clear, these two players helped bear the flag for free jazz during its dimmest, darkest years: the period from the end of the ...

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Roswell Rudd / Archie Shepp: Live in New York

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by John Stevenson
July 1, 2001

The year was 1994. The venue: the Eilat Red Sea Jazz Festival. Hundreds of sweltering Jazz aficionados waited in a huge converted cargo shed to witness reedman Archie Shepp and his quartet--a marquee coup for the Israeli festival. When Shepp swaggered onto the stage, the more discerning members of the audience (including this reviewer) could scarcely ...

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Chucho Valdes: Solo: Live in New York

by James Nichols
June 1, 2001

It’s a wonderful thing that Chucho Valdes has found such a healthy outlet for his aggression. Valdes demonstrates a dizzying exuberance at the piano during this 1998 solo date recorded at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Thoroughout the date it sounds like Valdes can barely contain his enthusiasm. Just when Valdes hits a repeating montuno and solicits ...

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Various: Jazz Live From New York

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2001

What a bargain this 2-cd set is! More than two hours of music performed by Telarc's outstanding stable of jazz recording artists, all for the price of a single album. And the record company's stable reads like an honor roll of contemporary jazz performers, Dave Brubeck, Mel Tormé, Sweets Edison and Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, James ...

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Bunch, Pizzarelli & Leonhart: New York Swing

by Mike Neely
May 1, 2001

New York Swing is an exciting live trio recording featuring top-notch musicianship in an inspired performance. This is not “a pretty good recording for a live recording," this is an excellent recording, period. If you are not familiar with pianist John Bunch, this recording will place a new flicker in your musical sky. He is the ...

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Chucho Valdes: Solo-Live in New York

by James Nichols
May 1, 2001

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David Hazeltine: Milwaukee's Best Becomes One of New York's Finest

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 1, 2001

“Writing is not an easy thing for me. I spend a lot of time getting it exactly how I want it."New York is a tough town. To be seen and heard among the scores of would-be jazz musicians you have to possess talent that is beyond the everyday and a voice that sets you ...