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Article: Multiple Reviews

Miles Revisited: Sketches of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition) & Miles Ahead Live

Read "Miles Revisited: Sketches of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition) & Miles Ahead Live" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler

Miles DavisSketches of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition)Columbia-Legacy2009 MSM Jazz OrchestraMiles Ahead LiveJazzheads2009 Third Stream, an attempt to meld aspects of jazz and European classical and world musics, as a term ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain

Read "Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen

The work of trumpeter Nate Wooley falls into a number of camps: free improvisation, experimental noise or restructuralist post-bop. It would be easy to lump him in with a young trumpeters/ extended techniques setting but Wooley is decidedly an individual. And while brass players tend to elicit an expected bravura, Wooley is very much at home ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus

Read "Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell

The New Mellow Edwards Big Choantza Skirl Records 2009 Tyft Smell The Difference Skirl Records 2009 Ben Perowsky Quartet Esopus Opus Skirl Records 2009

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #106: Patti Wicks

The Jazz Session #106: Patti Wicks

Pianist and vocalist Patti Wicks teams up with her Italian trio bassist Giovanni Sanguinetti and drummer Giovanni Gulino and guest saxophonist Scott Hamilton for Dedicated To (Geco Records, 2009). In this interview, Wicks talks about how she dealt with her childhood visual impairment and learned to play by ear; her college days at the Crane School ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris McGregor: Our Prayer

Read "Our Prayer" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer

Chris McGregor (1936-1990) is best known as the pianist/leader of the Brotherhood of Breath and its small band antecedent the Blue Notes, the group that he formed in South Africa in 1963. The inter-racial band elected for a voluntary European exile from their homeland and its policies that would ban their very right to assemble. In ...

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Article: Album Review

Edgar Van Asselt Quartet and Quintet: A Smooth Journey

Read "A Smooth Journey" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon

Pianist Edgar van Asselt teams his fine trio with tenor saxophonist David Schnitter and trumpet player Nico Schepers for A Smooth Journey, an album that both swings hard and lovingly embraces. Schnitter is perhaps best known for his stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the '70s and as a hard bopper who can carry a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tim Kuhl's Doomsayers - Live at Bar 4 on November 9th

Tim Kuhl's Doomsayers - Live at Bar 4 on November 9th

Hello AAJ Readers, At Bar 4 on, Monday November 9th @ 7pm I will be playing with my very fun experimental group called the DOOMSAYERS. This night features some VERY VERY exciting musicians... DOOMSAYERS: Ben Gerstein - Trombone Jonathan Moritz - Tenor ...

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News: Event

"Clawing at the Limits of Cool" Book Discussion at Columbia University on November 11, 2009

Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever - A Book Reading and Signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College) Professors Griffin and Washington will discuss aspects of their recent collaboration on the book Clawing at the Limits of Cool (Thomas Dunne Books, ...

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News: Event

45 Years of ESP!

November 8th, 2009 2 - 9:30pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker) F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker 212-614-0505 $20-100 sliding scale 100% of door proceeds go directly to the Jazz Foundation Jazz Foundation Performance Schedule: 2:00pm

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News: Award / Grant

The Monk, the Merrier: Ring in the Holidays with "The Next Face of Jazz"

"Next Face of Jazz" Series Features Thelonious Monk Competition Winners in Their Only NYC Appearance! 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners Perform on 3 Saturdays in December New York, NY - The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Announced in early October, ...


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