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Michael Bates: Lessons From The Road
by AAJ Staff
By Michael Bates Touring can be both exhausting and exhilarating, especially as a bandleader. The last few months have brought reminders of this as I was planning, booking and finally, actually touring with my quartet in support of my recent CD Clockwise on Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music label. As part of this tour, ...
Ian Anthony the Band @ The Yippie Museum
The Yippie Museum is chartered by the Board of Regents of New York State and exists to preserve the history of the Youth International Party and all of its offshoots. The Yippie Museum Cafe is dedicated to bringing you the best in a wide variety of musical talent. Everyone who plays there wants to come back ...
Connie Crothers / Bill Payne: Conversations
by Marc Medwin
Connie Crothers is one of the most versatile pianists on a scene that is so often mislabeled free jazz. Her pianism has been cultivated through long years of study and deep listening, evident in each tone, chord and gesture. Overwhelming intensity, at whatever volume, is juxtaposed with transparent beauty in a style that is as unique ...
Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 40 Years
by A. Henkin
Globe Unity Orchestra Globe Unity - 40 Years Intakt Records 2008 A month shy of the 40th anniversary of Alexander von Schlippenbach's monumental album Globe Unity (SABA, 1966), the German pianist brought together a modern edition of this freewheeling large ensemble for a concert at the 2006 Berlin ...
Trombonopia!: Bill Cantrall, David Gibson & Matt Haviland
by Fred Bouchard
Bill CantrallAxiomUp Swing2008 David GibsonG-RaysNagel Heyer2008 Matt HavilandBeyond Good and EvilConnotation2008 Three trombone-playing leaders here afford themselves plush settings for some pretty ...
Eivind Opsvik: Overseas III; Koptor & This That
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Eivind OpsvikOverseas IIILoyal Label2008 Kevin BrowKoptorFresh Sound-New Talent2008 Jesse StackenThis ThatFresh Sound-New Talent2008 The third release by Eivind Opsvik's Overseas project puts ...
Mark Dresser: The Beautiful Enabler & Point of Contact
by Wilbur MacKenzie
MaugerThe Beautiful EnablerClean Feed2008 Bob and Ellen WellerPoint of ContactCircumvention Music2008 In the few years since his departure from daily life in New York, bassist Mark Dresser's activities have been ...
Paul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz
by Francis Lo Kee
Marc CoplandNew York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: VoicesPirouet2008 Bill EvansPortrait in JazzRiverside-Concord2008 Paul Motian is a catalytic musician. His imaginative playing shapes the sound of a project in a way ...
Wu Fei new Release "Yuan" out November 25th
Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film and chamber ensembles. Performing on guzheng since the age of six, she studied composition at the China Conservatory and with Fred Frith at Mills College. She has since collaborated with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Joelle Leandre, Meredith ...
Steve Grossman
by Laurel Gross
Saxophonist Steve Grossman hasn't been a regular on the New York scene for many years but a crash-- course sampling of the many sessions he has recorded--with the likes of Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Barry Harris and Michel Petrucciani for starters as well as under his name as a soloist and with his own ...

