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Article: Album Review

Tom Wetmore: The Desired Effect

Read "The Desired Effect" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 23, 2012

A wide gulf often separates a composer's intent in the creation of his/her work and a listener's interpretation upon hearing it. While musicians try to capture or convey a certain sound, mood, spirit or energy in their recorded work, they can't control the environment and circumstances surrounding a consumer's exposure to it, and pianist Tom Wetmore ...

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Article: Interview

Enrico Rava: To Be Free or Not To Be Free

by Ian Patterson
January 16, 2012

Freedom, it could be argued, is most deeply understood by those who have been somehow constrained against their will, or who have been prisoners of their own skewed vision of what it means to be free. Trumpeter Enrico Rava knows the meaning of musical freedom; he was part of the free-jazz scene of the 1960s and ...

Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012

by Daniel Lehner
January 16, 2012

Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1New York, NYJanuary 6, 2012 No one could argue that jazz didn't have a tumultuous 2011. For the better, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding's Grammy for Best New Artist marked the first time a jazz musician was awarded that honor, and veteran ...

News: Recording

Motian Sickness - For the Love of Sarah (2011)

January 15, 2012

Less than two months ago the great jazz drummer, composer and bandleader Paul Motian passed away at eighty years old, in what was arguably the most substantial loss in the jazz world of 2011. He left behind a legacy that's been well documented on this site, so I won't get into all that here. Instead, this ...

News: Obituary

In Memoriam: 2011

January 9, 2012

As 2011 comes to a close, I'd like to take some time to remember some of the great contributors to jazz that passed away in 2011. Here is a short list of some of the wonderful musicians we lost over the last year. Charles Fambrough, 60 Bassist Charles Fambrough died on January 1, 2011. He had ...

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Article: Year in Review

2011: The Year In Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 5, 2012

The ebb and flow of jazz in 2011 was marked by a Grammy Awards coup, a Grammy dustup, economic changes that consolidated the recording industry a bit, impacted clubs in various locales, and provided some new opportunities. The U.S. Postal Service literally put its stamp on jazz, even as the government wrestled with the future of ...

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Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel

by Lawrence Peryer
January 2, 2012

Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...

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The Windmills Of Your Mind

By Paul Motian

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Introduction (1); Tennessee Waltz; The Windmills Of Your Mind; Let's Face The Music And Dance; Lover Man; It's Been A Long, Long Time; Little Foot; Easy Living; I've Got A Crush On You; Backup; I Loves You Porgy; Trieste; If I Could Be With You; Wednesday's Gone; I Remember You; Introduction (2).

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