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Article: Live Review

Trio of One: Fly at the Jazz Standard

Read "Trio of One: Fly at the Jazz Standard" reviewed by Eric Benson

by Eric Benson

FlyJazz StandardNew York, NYApril 10, 2009 Instruments are versatile husks, possessing limited range and a particular timbre, but no set personality of their own. The piano can channel the thoughts of musicians as different from one another as Cecil Taylor and Bill Evans; the saxophone can express the passions of Stan ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Lincoln Center Presents Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, June 5-9

Lincoln Center Presents Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, June 5-9

The celebrated Silk Road Ensemble with the incomparable cellist Yo-Yo Ma makes its Lincoln Center debut with three concerts June 5-9. The Ensemble, featuring virtuoso musicians from 11 different countries, will perform in the new and highly-praised Alice Tully Hall with two multi-cultural programs June 5 and 6 including the New York premiere of Giovanni Sollimas ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Elliott Murphy & Jann Klose's Memory and Desire Tour, April 22-26

Elliott Murphy & Jann Klose's Memory and Desire Tour, April 22-26

“Memory and Desire.” That’s what Rock Troubadour Elliott Murphy and multicultural pop singer-songwriter Jann Klose are calling their April 22-26th tour. Elliott borrowed the opening lines of T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” for this tour, which will include shows in Fairfield, CT, Asbury Park, NY, Fall River, MA, Hoboken, NJ and Amagansett, NY. Of course ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

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by Martin Longley

Fast 'n' Bulbous Waxed Oop Cuneiform 2009 Many people would agree with alto saxophonist Phillip Johnston's assertion that Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) was one of the twentieth century's very greatest composers. He was also one of its key innovators, conceptualists, singers and poets. When an artist ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Louis Armstrong: Integrale Vol. 5 & Live in Australia 1964

Read "Louis Armstrong: Integrale Vol. 5 & Live in Australia 1964" reviewed by Michael Steinman

by Michael Steinman

Louis ArmstrongIntegrale Vol. 5 (CD) Fremeaux & Associes2008 Louis Armstrong Live in Australia 1964 (DVD) Medici Arts 2008 Some might assert that the Fremaux label's triple-CD set, containing almost everything ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Gigs New York

JAZZ in the New York Clubs MICHAL ATTIAS QUARTET (Tuesday) At 8 p.m. The Stone Avenue C and Second Street, East Village AB BAARS TRIO WITH KEN VANDERMARK (Sunday) At 7 p.m. Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette ...

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News: Performance / Tour

DeJohnette, Perez and Patitucci Trio at the Blue Note

Intent on Mystery, a Trio Finds Common Ground, Jack DeJohnette, Danilo Prez and John Patitucci: Mr. DeJohnette, performing as part of a trio at the Blue Note. For about the first 10 minutes of their opening set at the Blue Note on Tuesday night the drummer Jack DeJohnette, the pianist Danilo Prez and the bassist John ...

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Article: Opinion

Fulfilling what has been lacking...

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by AAJ Staff

By Mickey Bass Jazz, as we once knew it, has become a thing of the past. For a lot of years clubs and promoters have been saying that this music is dead. My response to that statement is, “How can jazz be dead when its creators are still alive and well and creating?" ...

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Article: Book Review

Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies

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by Ivana Ng

Big Ears: Listening For Gender in Jazz Studies Edited by Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker Paperback; 472 pages ISBN: 0822343207 Duke University Press 2008 Reading Ingrid Monson's “Fitting the Part," one of 15 fascinating essays in this tome, I wonder if I too ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Five Bass Hits

Read "Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Five Bass Hits" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

Townhouse OrchestraBelle VilleClean Feed2008 Evan Parker/Ingebrigt Haker FlatenThe Brewery TapSmalltown Superjazzz2008 TrinityBreaking the MoldClean Feed2009 Ingebrigt Haker FlatenThe Year of the Boar


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