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Article: Interview

Eddie Gomez: The Playing is Free

Read "Eddie Gomez: The Playing is Free" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman

Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Thelonious Monk / John Coltrane / Art Pepper / Dave Brubeck: Remastered Classics

Read "Thelonious Monk / John Coltrane / Art Pepper / Dave Brubeck: Remastered Classics" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

An extension of the Original Jazz Classics series launched in 1982, the OJC Remasters strand applies the sonic benefits of modern remastering to albums in the OJC catalogue which were released on compact disc before 24-bit technology was available. On the first batch of Remasters, engineer Joe Tarantino's work adds new depth and presence to the ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

The State of Reissues 2010: Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Joe Pass

Read "The State of Reissues 2010: Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Joe Pass" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Formed by the merger of West Coast record labels Concord and Fantasy in 2004, the Concord Music Group possesses the largest catalog of recorded jazz earth-side. With such a rich basement, Concord can be expected to launch reissue series from time to time. The label's newest such program is the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series. Original ...

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Article: Album Review

Charnett Moffett: The Art of Improvisation

Read "The Art of Improvisation" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Discs that focus on a single instrument are not that uncommon in jazz, but recordings focusing primarily on the bass are quite rare, even for bassists who lead their own bands. Charnett Moffett's The Art of Improvisation joins the rank of such gems as Paul Chambers's Bass on Top (Blue Note, 1957) and, ...

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Burrell: Prime: Live at the Downtown Room

Read "Prime: Live at the Downtown Room" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan

Guitarist Kenny Burrell remains one of the few living jazz giants to emerge from the hard bop movement of the mid-1950s. Set to turn 79 this summer [2010], Burrell still occasionally performs, when he isn't too busy with his position as Head of Jazz Studies at UCLA, including a week at Yoshi's that was culled into ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Farewell, Sir John

Read "Farewell, Sir John" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Some of us are old enough to remember when Sir John Dankworth was simply Johnny Dankworth, and quite simply one of the finest jazz musicians Great Britain has ever produced. Johnny became Sir John in 2006 when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, nine years after his wife, the marvelous singer Cleo Laine, was made a ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Vinson Valega

Read "Take Five With Vinson Valega" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...

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Article: Interview

Ron McClure: Lookout Farms and New Moons

Read "Ron McClure: Lookout Farms and New Moons" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman

Bassist Ron McClure has a practical philosophy about what he does. “Making music begins with doing your job," he says. “It's nice if you can be a hot soloist, but do your job first and do it well." These are words that the bassist has lived by for over 40 years in the jazz music business. ...

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Davis: Kenny Davis

Read "Kenny Davis" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

He's had an illustrious career since moving to New York in the mid-1980s and hitching a gig with drummer Ralph Peterson Jr. and contemporary mainstreamers Out of the Blue (OTB), but he's waited until now to release an album under his own name. An impressive résumé includes work with M-Base collective saxophonist Steve Coleman's Five Elements; ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues

Read "Lagos Blues" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter

Four decades ago, Miles Davis called then-burgeoning saxophonist Steve Grossman “an important voice in this music." One of the people who heard that voice was pianist Antonio Ciacca. Lagos Blues, Ciacca's second disc for Motema, not only shows Grossman's influence as Ciacca's former teacher; it also includes the now-legendary tenor player's direct influence, as he joins ...


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