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Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs of Sam
by Jeff Stockton
Master of semi-exotic Eastern double-reed instruments, Bill Cole has spent most of his professional life as an academic. Criminally under-recorded, when Seasoning the Greens, a 2001 concert of his Untempered Ensemble was released in 2002, fans of freely improvised worldbeat jazz only had to wait one year. So the question raised by Proverbs of Sam is: ...
Steve Lantner: Given - Live In Munster
by John Sharpe
What is called free jazz can cover a very wide spectrum of creative music, not all of which is as unfettered as the name implies. At the most basic level, choice of instrumentation is a clear limitation, while pre-agreed moods or written heads may further reduce the possibilities. On Given, the second release ...
AllAboutJazz-New York June 2009 Issue Now Available!
Every June we begin getting excited for jazz festival season in the city. Unfortunately, for the first time since 1984, New York City, once the jazz capital of the world (a title threatened by New Orleans, Berlin or maybe one of several Canadian metropolises), will be without a JVC Jazz Festival. Of course, the truth is ...
Ben Webster: Ben Webster: The Brute & The Beautiful
by Michael Steinman
Ben Webster (1909-73), perhaps the least acknowledged of the great jazz tenor saxophonists, was fortunate enough to have a varied 40-year recording career. His ballads were immensely tender and his blues and faster tunes could be nearly violent in their intensity. Hence the title of this two-disc set, a centennial issue that celebrates this musical duality. ...
Lisa Sokolov: A Quiet Thing
by Donald Elfman
No song is a simple thing in Lisa Sokolov's hands, for she delves into the magical possibilities of the voice and the beauty and mystery of words. Her third album, A Quiet Thing, extends the power of her earlier recordings, continuing her progression towards the majestic and ecstatic “silence" of the universe. She bills her new ...
Diana Krall: Quiet Nights
by Marcia Hillman
Diana Krall's new CD arrives just in time to greet the “lazy, hazy days" and nights of summer. On this outing, she is on vocals and piano, accompanied by Anthony Wilson on guitar, bassist John Clayton, drummer Jeff Hamilton, percussionist Paulinho Da Costa and a lush orchestra consisting of a full string section augmented by flutes, ...
Snooky Young
by Rex Butters
When they called Eugene Edward Young up to the podium to receive his 2009 NEA Jazz Master's award, he was called by his professional name, Snooky. “I don't know how I got it," he said. “It started when I was a real little kid. I don't know where it came from. It used to be Snookum ...
Posi-Tone Records
by Donald Elfman
Posi-Tone Records is an extraordinary anomaly in these times, an independent, thriving jazz label that continues to find new and established musicians and works continually to improve each aspect of production to release a final product of superior quality. As the market has changed the company has sought and accepted new ways to do business that ...
Moonlight on the Ganges
by Nick Catalano
A critical hue and cry has recently arisen over the release of CDs featuring Indian-jazz fusions. Expressions such as “astonishing," “spellbinding" and “swings like mad" have been used to describe alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's interesting album Kinsmen on the Pi label. Grammy nominations and five-star reviews have poured in for Miles From India, Bob Belden's retrospective ...
Matt Darriau Paradox Trio: Gambit: Brooklyn to Bulgaria
by Elliott Simon
Among multi-reedist Matt Darriau's many projects and collaborations his Paradox Trio stands out as a forum for his own creativity. Darriau is an alto man and clarinetist who has also mastered several Eastern European instruments such as the gaida (bagpipe) and Bulgarian wood flute or kaval. On this offering, he and his band are joined by ...
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