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Article: Album Review

Insight: A Genesis

Read "A Genesis" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
August 11, 2007

Brothers Zaccai and Luques Curtis are the driving force behind the group Insight, whose A Genesis is a spirited blend of Latin jazz with elements from other genres. Pianist Zaccai composed most of the songs and the music is arranged and performed with skill and energy. Latin burners like “Necessity and the passionate ...

News: Event

Blue Owl Jazz Series

August 10, 2007

Blue Owl Jazz Series Presents: Jazz artists, Since When? Performing with bassist/composer Terence Culpepper will be guest musicians Yasuyuki (Yaz) Takagi and Eric J. Smith. Performing music by Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stevie Wonder and some Since When? originals too. Every Sunday evening in August, 8:30 - 11:00 pm $5 music ...

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Article: Opinion

Words on World Jazz

by AAJ Staff
August 10, 2007

By Kali Z. Fasteau Let's take a dialectic approach to the subject of 'world jazz', looking at both the macro contours (the big picture) and the micro tones, like the Indian term 'sruti': the smallest audible difference of pitch. In response to questions about genre, I started using this term because it directly ...

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Article: Album Review

Ganelin Trio Priority: Live in Lugano 2006

Read "Live in Lugano 2006" reviewed by Marc Medwin

by Marc Medwin
August 10, 2007

There's nothing like hearing a group in concert to reawaken interest. The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated. Slava Ganelin himself, the founder and only original member of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Sings Abbey

Read "Abbey Sings Abbey" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge

by Suzanne Lorge
August 10, 2007

At almost 77 years of age Abbey Lincoln has been composing, writing and/or performing for almost sixty years, and Abbey Sings Abbey is a stunning collection of some of the singer's most memorable works. Lincoln is a writer of some depth and the eleven original tunes on this CD offer strong testament to her ...

News: Performance / Tour

Gabriele Tranchina at Enzo's Jazz Friday, September 28th Sets at 8:00PM and 9:30PM

August 9, 2007

Gabriele Tranchina Friday, September 28, 2007 Sets at 8:00pm and 9:30pm Enzo's Jazz at The Jolly Hotel Madison Towers/Whaler Bar 22 East 38 ST (at Madison Ave) New York, NY 10016 Tel: (973) 728-2222 with JoeVincent Tranchina, Piano Gabriele Tranchina, ...

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News: Video / DVD

Arkadia Releases DVD from Violinist Christian Howes

August 9, 2007

New York, NY - ARKADIA DVD, the new DVD division of the Grammy-nominated record label Arkadia Records, is proud to announce the August 2007 release of this remarkable concert, Christian Howes & The Horacio Icasto Quartet: Live in Madrid. Lauded as Downbeat Magazine's #2 rising star, up-and-comer Christian Howes has wowed fellow performers and audiences alike ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Sten Hostfalt Ghost Live NYC Aug 13

August 9, 2007

Sten Hostfalt's Ghost Factor live at Goodbye Blue Monday Bushwick, BKLYN New York City Monday AUGUST 13 at 9 pm sten hostfalt - guitar/electronics melissa kassel - voice matt renzi - tenor saxophone/clarinet bruce arnold - guitar + guests TBA the event is shared with Dave ...

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Article: Book Review

Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives From Faulkner's Mississippi To Post-9/11 New York

by Jim Santella
August 9, 2007

Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives From Faulkner's Mississippi To Post-9/11 New York Adam Gussow Hardcover; 188 pages ISBN: 978-1-57233-569-1 The University Of Tennessee Press 2007 An Associate Professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, Adam Gussow writes well and knows how to ...

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Article: Album Review

Oliver Lake: Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard

Read "Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard" reviewed by Ivana Ng

by Ivana Ng
August 9, 2007

It is often difficult to transcribe onto a CD the electricity of a live performance, but alto saxophonist Oliver Lake does it with ease on Lake/Tchicai/Osgood/Westergaard. In 2003, Lake completed a brief tour of Denmark with tenor saxophonist John Tchicai, drummer Kresten Osgood and bassist Jonas Westergaard. They immediately went into the studio afterwards, the product ...