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News: Performance / Tour

Making Avant-Garde Jazz in a Mostly Killing Climate

February 17, 2009

The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label, Hot Cup. Elliott, 30, a bassist/composer born in Factoryville, says, “Look, we're ...

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News: Festival

The 2009 Melbourne International Jazz Festival: April 26 to May 2

February 16, 2009

More than 55 events Five world premieres Nine Australian premieres Four Festival commissions Five Australian/international collaborations Melbourne International Jazz Festival April 26 to May 2, 2009 Venues Around Melbourne Ticketek, Ticketmaser, Moshtix, Melbourne Recital Centre In a week of unparalleled musicianship--26th April ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Blue Note at 70

by Joel Roberts
February 14, 2009

No label in jazz can match the history and legacy of Blue Note Records. Since its founding in New York in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion, Blue Note has been associated with an amazing assortment of jazz luminaries including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ornette Coleman Tributes: Tiziano Tononi & Makaya Ntshoko

by Robert Iannapollo
February 7, 2009

Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians Peace Warriors - Vol. 2 (Forgotten Children) Soul Note 2008 Makaya Ntshoko & The New Tsotsis Happy House Steeplechase 2008 It's been ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 5, 2009

There may not be a more creative group of artists anywhere within the boundaries of any art form than those within the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. These are individuals that comprehensively understand their responsibility to art and it is only through this level of integrity and creativity that art can, and will continue to move forward. ...

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Article: Profile

William Parker: Deep Roots

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 28, 2009

William Parker's East Village apartment is abuzz with activity on what would seem to be a typical November afternoon in the hive of New York free jazz. Cell phones and laptops are whirring, Parker making arrangements for an upcoming tour as his wife, the dancer and tireless organizer Patricia Nicholson, sets details for an upcoming fundraiser ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dave Douglas' Fetish Busting Greenleaf Digital Music Experience

by Mark Corroto
January 26, 2009

The assignment was simple enough. I was to listen online to trumpet and cornet player Dave Douglas' recordings Quintet: Live at the Jazz Standard and Keystone Live at the Jazz Standard at GreenleafMusic.com, and write about them. So why hadn't I touched the play button nearly three weeks after receiving the music? Sure, sometimes ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Augustus Pablo: The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 23, 2009

Augustus Pablo The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story Shanachie 2008 Jorge Luis Borges wrote The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim in 1936. On first reading, it's a book review of a detective novel by an obscure Indian lawyer. Except that there was no such book; the “review" is ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

by Clifford Allen
January 19, 2009

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Bob Weir: The Music Never Stopped

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
January 17, 2009

It has been said before but there really has never been a group of musicians quite like the Grateful Dead. And as the years have passed on, I can no longer, as I did then, take their ability to turn sound into magic for granted. It didn't happen at every performance, but when the heavens opened, ...