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Article: Album Review

John McNeil and Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny

Read "Chill Morn He Climb Jenny" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Navigating the wide avenue of American Song can be boring, because the same charts appear on album after album; but when musicians either pick little-known charts of the celebrated composers of the American Songbook, or add little-known composers to that musical tome, things get quirky, but utterly refreshing. This is exactly the case in point regarding ...

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Article: Album Review

The Dave Liebman Group: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman

Read "Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

2010 has been a busy year for Dave Liebman, though not always one in which the saxophonist sits in the featured chair: he is the horn man on Contact's highly collaborative Five in One (Pirouet Records, 2010), a superb all-star outing; sits in on half of rising star Bobby Avey's A New Face (Jay Dell Records, ...

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News: Event

Jamaaladeen Tacuma "For The Love of Ornette" CD Release Celebration

Jamaaladeen Tacuma "For The Love of Ornette" CD Release Celebration

Jamaaladeen Tacuma would like to invite you to a intimate evening of music and art celebrating the release of his latest recording For The Love of Ornette featuring legendary Ornette Coleman and the launching of his record label Jam All Productions. The evening will include a CD listening party and live musical performance with Jamaaladeen on ...

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Article: Album Review

Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies

Read "Sophisticated Ladies" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Gorgeous, poised and inviting. And that's just the sister on the cover of bassist Charlie Haden's latest with-singers-and-strings album. It's a retro design which, like the disc it packages, was inspired by Capitol Records' distinctive jazz-inflected vocal albums of the early 1960s. Your parents got off on this stuff big time back in the day, while ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

40 Year Old Bitches, New MilesTones & Others, Too

Read "40 Year Old Bitches, New MilesTones & Others, Too" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

AntibalasWho is This America? Ropeadope Records2010 Few American bands have been more influential in the global Afrobeat movement than the Brooklyn collective Antibalas. Keeper of the African protest flame ignited by Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s, Antibalas' reach is expansive and impressive: it contributed to the ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Steve Sacks

Read "Take Five With Steve Sacks" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Steve Sacks: A jazz saxophonist/flutist and Harvard-trained musicologist, Steve, has for 35 years, focused his talents on the richness and diversity of Brazilian and Latin music. An internationalist fluent in five languages, and with twenty years experience on the New York music scene, Steve has performed, recorded and/or written for a wide variety ...

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Article: Live Review

Live From Los Angeles: Autumn 2010

Read "Live From Los Angeles: Autumn 2010" reviewed by Chuck Koton

by Chuck Koton

The Los Angeles jazz scene, in spite of occasional rumors to the contrary, is vibrant and eclectic, though admittedly, also quite far flung. No hoppin' on the “A" train to the Village; out here jazz lovers spin their odometers drivin' from Hollywood to Studio City, from downtown LA to Long Beach, in search of hip and ...

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Article: Album Review

TriEZ: TriEZ

Read "TriEZ" reviewed by Antonio Álvarez Barthe

by Antonio Álvarez Barthe

Primeras figuras del jazz de vanguardia europeo, con largos y brillantes currículos tanto como líderes como al servicio de diferentes maestros de la música improvisada en varios continentes, Agustí Fernández, Baldo Martínez y Ramón López debutaron como trío bajo el explícito nombre de TriEZ en el Festival Jazzycolors de París en noviembre de 2006. La excepcional ...

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Article: Live Review

Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Days 3-4, November 6-7, 2010

Read "Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Days 3-4, November 6-7, 2010" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Day 1 | Day 2 | Days 3-4 Tampere Jazz HappeningTampere, FinlandNovember 4-7, 2010 While most festivals aim to keep the energy, commitment and creativity levels high, few succeed at starting with a high bar and raising it continuously throughout the course of the event. While the first two days of ...

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Article: Live Review

Mark Dresser Quintet Live at Dizzy's, San Diego

Read "Mark Dresser Quintet Live at Dizzy's, San Diego" reviewed by Robert Bush

by Robert Bush

Mark Dresser QuintetDizzy'sSan Diego, CAOctober 10, 2010 Double bass virtuoso Mark Dresser is a player whose expertise in multiple genres defies categorization. His is the story of the student becoming the maestro. Growing up, he was inspired by rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and bassist/composer Charles Mingus, and he began his ...


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