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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #147: Chad Taylor

March 1, 2010

Chad Taylor is a very busy man, playing drums with his own band and with Digital Primitives, the Chicago Underground ensembles, Nicole Mitchell and many others. Taylor's trio recording, Circle Down (482 Music, 2009) features bassist Chris Lightcap and pianist Angelica Sanchez. In this interview, Taylor talks about the idea of collective leadership in music; the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Douglass Street Music Collective Presents Unicycles

February 28, 2010

On Thursday, March 4 at 9:00 p.m., Douglass Street Music Collective will present Unicycles, a relay-style series of solo performances by an ensemble cast of six up-and-coming Brooklyn improvisers. The cast, which collaborates in various other groups including Gleason's Twins, Dollshot, and Cuddle Magic, will assemble one fat B-52 of sonic pleasure, piece by piece. The ...

News: Event

Hancock to be Feted at Revived NYC Jazz Festival

February 28, 2010

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple. The pianist, who turns 70 on April 12, will be joined by comedian Bill Cosby, saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Celebrating 75 Years of Grooves in Village

February 28, 2010

Joe Lovano and Us Five, including, from left, Mr. Lovano, Francisco Mela and Esperanza Spalding, are celebrating the Village Vanguard's 75th anniversary this week. A warm sense of occasion surrounds this week's Village Vanguard engagement by the saxophonist Joe Lovano. The club just commemorated its 75th anniversary, another mile marker in a storied and still vital ...

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News: Recording

Egberto Gismonti to Appear on Yeahwon Shin's Artistshare Debut Recording

February 28, 2010

Legendary Brazilian musician/composer Egberto Gismonti joined Yeahwon Shin at Avatar recording studios in NYC to perform on Yeahwon's debut ArtistShare project recording. The project also boasts all star lineup of musicians including Jeff Ballard on drums, Ben Street on Bass and Kevin Hays on piano. The official release date is set for June 2010 however fans ...

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Article: Opinion

Either/Or (No More)

by Darcy James Argue
February 28, 2010

You know that party game where you present people with a forced choice that's actually a litmus test for distinguishing between two kinds of people? Here, let's play--pick one (and only one): Matisse or Picasso? Federer or Nadal? The Daily Show or The Colbert Report? Since I am a “jazz composer" by training ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2010

by AAJ Staff
February 28, 2010

Gerald Clayton Village VanguardNew York, NY February 11, 2010To start, pianist Gerald Clayton ought to have won that Grammy for his solo on “All of You," from his debut Two-Shade, a burning 2009 trio album that was picked up by Emarcy (from ArtistShare) for wider release in 2010. Along with ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Larry Ochs: The Celestial Septet & We All Feel The Same Way

by Marc Medwin
February 28, 2010

ROVA Sax Quartet/Nels Cline SingersThe Celestial SeptetNew World Records2010 Jones JonesWe All Feel The Same WaySoLyd2010 The synchronicity and boundless energy that separate great groupwork from everything else pervades these ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill McHenry: Bloom & Narrow Margin

by Martin Longley
February 28, 2010

Ben Monder/Bill McHenryBloomSunnyside Records2010 Andrew GreenNarrow MarginMicrophonic2009 Brooklyn tenor man Bill McHenry can teeter on the lip of sonic extremity, but he's also well-versed in the art of post-Coleman Hawkins ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Marilyn Lerner: Arms Spread Wide & Ugly Beauties

by A. Henkin
February 28, 2010

Marilyn Lerner/Ken Filiano/Lou GrassiArms Spread WideNo Business2009 Marilyn Lerner/Matt Brubeck/Nick FraserUgly BeautiesActuelle2009 A quick perusal of Canadian pianist Marilyn Lerner's website presents a musician whose projects are both typically and ...