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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Rocket Science

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by John Kelman

Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Rocket Science E One Music Group 2011 Some say you can't go back, but that's not always true. Emerging from his formative years as a rising star in the blue/newgrass community, banjoist Béla Fleck lept onto a much bigger radar with the release of Béla ...

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Paul Winter Consort: Miho - Journey to the Mountain

Read "Miho - Journey to the Mountain" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Paul Winter's music pulsates with the earth's polyrhythmic heartbeat. Various incarnations of his Consort have been so in tune with the ground beneath their feet that this ensemble, in all its forms, has come to be the harbinger of the wellspring of all life. From time to time, Winter's soul has roamed the realms where mysticism ...

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Oregon: In Stride

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Dopo 40 anni di attività e 28 album incisi (e a tre anni di distanza dal precedente 1000 Kilometers, sempre pubblicato dalla CamJazz), il gruppo degli Oregon non mostra segni di stanchezza o di cedimento nella propria musica, fedele a un ideale sonoro ben definito fino dagli inizi e in seguito saldamente cementato nel corso della ...

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Oregon: In Stride

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by John Kelman

OregonIn StrideCam Jazz2010 With a shared history of 40 years amongst three of its four members--and a fourth now rivaling the group's co-founder, the late Collin Walcott, as percussionist with the longest tenure, it's almost redundant to discuss the inherent chemistry shared amongst the members of the genre-busting ...

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Take Five With Steve Sacks

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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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By Dogsled, Tugboat or Kayak: Paul Winter's Latest Adventure in Japan

The Garden of Sonic Delights: Paul Winter Consort Finds a Resonant Paradise in a Japanese Architectural Treasure Paradise began as an enclosed garden but morphed into Shangri-la, a valley concealed and shimmering with peach blossoms. Now it echoes in a peaceable kingdom inside a mountain top, filled with resonant chambers and great treasures: the I. M. ...

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Nguyen Le: Signature Edition 1

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by John Kelman

Few musicians embody the word “fusion" more than Parisian-born guitarist Nguyên Lê. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, for the past 25 years he's been mining a combination of fusion by the more conventional definition--the infusion of rock energy into the jazz sphere--with fusion in a broader sense, the seamless integration of music from cultures around the ...

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Fred Simon: Since Forever

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by John Kelman

A pianist of rare compositional lyricism, it's remarkable how one event in Fred Simon's life has led, almost inescapably, to the present. Touring with woodwind multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless in support of the Oregon co-founder's Premonition (Windham Hill, 1992), the keyboardist found himself onstage with Pat Metheny Group bassist Steve Rodby and soon-to-be-Oregon drummer, Mark Walker. That ...

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Ian Dogole and Hemispheres: Crossroads

Read "Crossroads" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Ian Dogole is a percussionist of considerable skill, character, invention and individuality. This ensemble that he has put together--Hemispheres--might otherwise be passed over as just another world fusion group. It is also graced by multi-reed artist Paul McCandless, who just happens to be co-founder of the legendary band, Oregon. The uniqueness of Crossroads is further evidence ...

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1000 Kilometers

By Paul McCandless

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Deep Six (Walker) - 4:21; 02. From a Dream (Towner) - 1:00; 03. Catching Up (Towner) - 8:12; 04. 1000 Kilometers (Towner) - 10:28; 05. Bayonne (McCandless) - 6:28; 06. Simone (Towner) - 5:52; 07. Free Imp (Oregon) - 1:46; 08. Back Pocket (Moore) - 2:57; 09. Relentless Imp (Oregon) - 3:33; 10. Paraglide (Towner) - 6:55; 11. The Bactrian (Moore) - 8:05; 12. 1000 Kilometers (reprise) (Towner) - 2:03.


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