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Article: Multiple Reviews

Louis Hayes: Maximum Firepower and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

by Ken Dryden
August 5, 2007

Louis Hayes spent six productive years as the drummer for Cannonball Adderley, appearing on around two dozen albums with the alto saxophonist between 1959 and 1965. Hayes' first record date with Adderley was The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco and the drummer has since recorded extensively as a leader, particularly over the last decade. In ...

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Article: Book Review

Lennie Tristano: Jazz Visions & Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music

by Francis Lo Kee
August 5, 2007

In 1949 Lennie Tristano (1919-78) recorded “Intuition and “Digression , two of the earliest examples of freely improvised jazz. Though the approaches and content differ greatly, authors Peter Ind and Eunmi Shim agree on the following: Tristano best represents how a non-commercial artist can be “air-brushed out of jazz history as an extremely influential teacher.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Hod O'Brien: Live at Blues Alley - Third Set, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, I Hear a Rhapsody and Yardbird Suite

by Ken Dryden
August 5, 2007

Hod O'Brien has more than paid his dues during a long jazz career that began during the height of the bop era in the '50s; He has been praised by fellow pianist Barry Harris (with whom he recorded a duo piano concert CD issued by Spice of Life) as “one of the pure bop pianists . ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ayana Lowe's Jazz Combo Saturday, August 4th at 55 Bar

August 4, 2007

Ayana Lowe's Jazz Combo Ayana Lowe - vocals, Patrizia Scascitelli - piano, Bob Bowman- bass, Luca Santanelli- drums special guest Meilana Gillard - sax SATURDAY, AUGUST 4th 55 BAR - 55 Christopher Street, West Village (between 6th & 7th Aves--take 1/9 train to Christopher) 212 929-9883 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. (2 sets 6:00 and ...

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Article: Album Review

Francesco Cafiso: New York Lullaby

Read "New York Lullaby" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
August 4, 2007

Yes, he is that good. Or was, on the occasion of this 2005 session, which features the fifteen-year-old native Sicilian saxophonist making his American recording debut accompanied by a crack New York rhythm section. Although it's common to hear rueful expressions about what a Charlie Parker or Clifford Brown might have accomplished had they lived longer, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Marc Ribot: Asmodeus - Book of Angels Volume 7 & Losing Stones, Collecting Bones

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
August 4, 2007

Marc Ribot Asmodeus - Book of Angels, Volume 7 Tzadik 2007 In the Country Losing Stones, Collecting Bones Rune Grammofon 2006 Guitarist Marc Ribot is known for ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Terrence McManus: Thirty9Thirty8 & Live at the Clown Lounge

by Elliott Simon
August 4, 2007

Dave Ballou/Terrence McManus/Devin Gray Thirty9thirty8 Flattened Planet Records 2006 Terrence McManus/Michael Lewis/Adam Linz/J.T. Bates Live at the Clown Lounge Flattened Planet Records 2006 Although legitimate releases, both these sessions, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Nels Cline: Downpour, Draw Breath, Smoke Inside and Duo Milano

by Matthew Miller
August 4, 2007

Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey Downpour Victo 2007 Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath Cryptogramophone 2007 Daniele Cavallanti Electric Unit Smoke Inside Long Song 2007 Nels ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Wolff Trio: jazz, JAZZ, jazz

Read "jazz, JAZZ, jazz" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
August 4, 2007

Pianist Michael Wolff has had a career that can best be described as eclectic. Along with serious jazz stints with Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins and Nancy Wilson, he's played with rocker Warren Zevon, explored world music, recorded an album as a vocalist and had a high-profile five-year gig as the bandleader on The Arsenio Hall Show. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

A Queue of Contemporary Keyboardists: Ran Blake, Howard Riley, S

by Tom Greenland
August 4, 2007

Ran Blake The Complete All That Is Tied Sessions Tompkins Square-emusic.com 2007 Howard Riley Short Stories (Volume II) SLAM 2007 Søren Kjærgaard Keys ILK Music 2006 ...