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Trio 3 + Geri Allen: At This Time

Read "At This Time" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dopo ventitré anni di esistenza, il Trio3 del contraltista Oliver Lake, del contrabbassista Reggie Workman e del batterista Andrew Cyrille si arricchisce di un nuovo partecipante, la pianista Geri Allen. In realtà, il gruppo nasce non ufficialmente (la vera data d'inizio è il 1988) in occasione di una collaborazione discografica con la pianista Marilyn Crispell nel ...

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Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium 2009

Read "Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium 2009" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Guelph Jazz Festival & ColloquiumGuelph, OntarioSeptember 9-13, 2009The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium devoted itself this year to trying to unpack an idea so common that it is at once crucial and cliché: whether the practice of music-making might have world-changing implications. Through presentations on (for example) gang intervention in South Africa through ...

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Article: Album Review

Oliver Lake: Makin' It

Read "Makin' It" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Changing a few elements of a well known musical format may be all that is needed to create a new and fresh sound. Makin' It, Oliver Lake has taken the old saxophone organ trio popularized in the 1950s by the likes of Ike Quebec and made it into a new vehicle for 21st ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Oliver Lake

Jazz Musician of the Day: Oliver Lake

All About Jazz is celebrating Oliver Lake's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Oliver LakeBorn in Marianna, Arkansas in 1942, Oliver moved to St. Louis at the age of two. He began drawing at the age of thirteen (and paints daily, using oil, acrylics, wood, canvas, and mixed ...

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Article: Live Review

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London

Read "Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London" reviewed by John Sharpe


Alexander Hawkins Ensemble The Vortex London, England August 10, 2009 If you can judge a person by the company he keeps, then pianist Alexander Hawkins must be someone to watch given his musical associations, both actual and virtual. The packed house at the Vortex certainly thought so, confounding Hawkins' ...

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Article: Profile

Geri Allen: Journey to the Light

Read "Geri Allen: Journey to the Light" reviewed by Greg Thomas


Geri Allen's playing and compositional efforts manifest a stylistic flexibility grounded in her absorption of the lessons of the masters of the jazz idiom, and her desire to innovate upon that legacy. As an apprentice during high school and college, and then as a journeywoman, Allen has kept company with musical legends.

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News: Recording

Notes from the Net: A Tribute to Miles Davis and Gil Evans; New CDs from Terence Blanchard and John Patitucci; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Notes from the Net: A Tribute to Miles Davis and Gil Evans; New CDs from Terence Blanchard and John Patitucci; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* A group including former Miles Davis drummer Jimmy Cobb, Gil Evans' son Miles Evans, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Trio 3: At This Time and Berne Concert

Read "Trio 3: At This Time and Berne Concert" reviewed by Clifford Allen


30-odd years ago, the lineup of Trio 3--a veritable supergroup--might have seemed surprising. By the mid-'70s, drummer Andrew Cyrille had fed polyrhythmic invention to Cecil Taylor's unit structures and tuned drums for ten years, while bassist Reggie Workman was known for his work with Coltrane and a number of Blue Note artists. Reedman Oliver Lake, who ...

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Article: Album Review

Trio 3 + Geri Allen: At This Time

Read "At This Time" reviewed by Nic Jones


The trio of Lake, Workman and Cyrille is, by now, seasoned in the right way. All three players are relative veterans and the depth of their shared musical understanding is obvious in everything they do. This time, Geri Allen's pianist's skill is an amalgam of Paul Bley and Andrew Hill harmonically speaking, though it's only fair ...

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Article: Album Review

Warren Smith: Old News Borrowed Blues

Read "Old News Borrowed Blues" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Warren Smith (drums, vibraphone, percussion) does not have a deep discography as a leader, and so any recording by him is most welcome. All the music on this CD has been performed live but never released, and the wait makes hearing it all the sweeter. Though his work as leader has been thin, Smith ...


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