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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joe Fonda: Trio & Duets (1995)

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 8, 2007

Fonda/Stevens Group Trio Not Two 2007 Anthony Braxton/Joe Fonda Duets (1995) Konnex-Clean Feed 2007 It's difficult to either match or deny the hyperbole with which Leo Feigin ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Wadada Leo Smith: Wisdom in Time & Brooklyn Duos

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 8, 2007

Wadada Leo Smith/Gunter Baby Sommer Wisdom in Time Intakt 2007 John Coxon/Wadada Leo Smith Brooklyn Duos Treader 2007 The duo of Wadada Leo Smith and Günter Baby ...

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Article: Album Review

Josh Irving Quintet: A Common Thread

Read "A Common Thread" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross
September 8, 2007

Josh Irving impressively soldiered on during a live celebration in July, 2007, of the release of A Common Thread at New York City's Smalls--an event at which only two of the six musicians featured on the recording were present. That he could successfully make the best of what would not seem optimal circumstances ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Chu Berry: Classic Columbia And Victor Sessions

by AAJ Staff
September 8, 2007

Chu Berry Classic Columbia And Victor Sessions Mosaic Records 2007 Loren Schoenberg gets to the heart of saxophonist Chu Berry's story near the end of his superlative liners when he notes that “Ghost Of A Chance," the 1940 ballad feature recorded by Cab Calloway's Orchestra in response ...

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Article: Album Review

Jamie Fox: When I Get Home

Read "When I Get Home" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
September 8, 2007

With his focus on smooth melodies and graceful rhythms, guitarist Jamie Fox brings us a comfortable ride that honors the impact of great jazz melody-makers such as Joe Pass, Charlie Byrd, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny and George Benson. Interpreting ten original songs with his core trio and added guests, Fox creates impressions as varied as tango ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Coltrane: Mating Call, Traneing In, Soul Trane & My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport

by Christopher Shoe
September 8, 2007

Tadd Dameron Mating Call Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane Traneing In Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane Soultrane Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane My Favorite Things: ...

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Article: Album Review

Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

Read "Joint Happening" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

by Robert Iannapollo
September 8, 2007

Mushroom was formed in the late 1990s by drummer Pat Thomas as a loose performing collective and has developed a small but quite rabid following. Lumped in with the jamband genre, they've never garnered quite the same amount of attention as other exemplars. Perhaps part of the reason is that they are not exclusively a jamband ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Don Friedman: Waltz For Marilyn

by A. Henkin
September 8, 2007

Don Friedman Waltz For Marilyn Jazz Excursion Records 2007 In jazz, for all of its love of the all-star session, the long-term collaboration is of utmost importance. There have been many such relationships: bassist Charles Mingus and reed player Eric Dolphy, saxophonist John Coltrane and drummer Elvin Jones, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ken Vandermark: Rebus, Foreground Music and Journal

by A. Henkin
September 8, 2007

Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Luther Gray Rebus Clean Feed 2007 Ken Vandermark/Pandelis Karayorgis Foreground Music Okkadisk 2007 Bridge 61 Journal Atavistic 2006

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Article: Book Review

Improvising: My Life In Music

by Karen Hogg
September 8, 2007

Improvising: My Life In Music Larry Coryell Softcover; 209 pages ISBN: 0879308265 Backbeat Books 2007 Improvising: My Life In Music is the autobiography of Larry Coryell. The guitarist takes us through his early years, the start of his career in New York and up through the ...