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Article: Album Review

Paul Motian / Chris Potter / Jason Moran: Lost In A Dream

Read "Lost In A Dream" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Drummer Paul Motian makes another stellar recording with his newest trio of pianist Jason Moran and saxophonist Chris Potter. Soon to be eighty, the drummer--who doesn't venture out of Manhattan these days--displays full command over musical expression and emotion on this live recording. It's impossible to listen to Motian's trio work at New York's ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Paul Motian

Jazz Musician of the Day: Paul Motian

All About Jazz is celebrating Paul Motian's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Paul MotianAlthough he studied drums in the Navy School of Music in Washington, there has never been anything militaristic about Paul Motian\'s prolific work as a jazz drummer. In the mid-1950s, he played with a ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Motian / Chris Potter / Jason Moran: Lost In A Dream

Read "Lost In A Dream" reviewed by John Kelman


Though he's led larger ensembles, drummer Paul Motian seems to be most comfortable--or, at the very least, most interested--in working within the particular confines and freedoms of the trio. Whether it's his quarter century old group with guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano, or the early saxophone/bass/drums trio of Dance (ECM, 1978) and Le Voyage ...

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Article: Interview

Robin D.G. Kelley on Thelonious Monk: The Man, the Myth, the Music

Read "Robin D.G. Kelley on Thelonious Monk: The Man, the Myth, the Music" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Robin D.G. Kelley is the author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009), the already definitive biography that has received rave reviews in the press and is the topic of conversation of Monk fans and musicians everywhere. Kelley offers the rich perspective of an African-American historian ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Seven Steps to Soul

Read "Seven Steps to Soul" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


In a narrow view, soul music is a style of rhythm and blues in which the object of affection is most often a lover who's either in view or long been out of sight. But from a wider perspective, soul music can also tell the story of a nation's memories and dreams, and articulate the spirit ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009

Read "Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Jazz Man of the Year honors go without a doubt to Rafael Gilbert of Spain, who attended a performance by Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet at the Sigüenza Jazz Festival in December, and called the police to report that, whatever it was that Ochs was playing, it wasn't jazz. Ochs was asked to play ...

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Article: Album Review

Opsvik & Jennings: A Dream I Used To Remember

Read "A Dream I Used To Remember" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo


Over the past five years, bassist Eivind Opsvik has gained a considerable reputation around New York as a strong, resourceful jazz bassist. He's been tapped by the likes of Tony Malaby, Paul Motian and Kris Davis for their groups. His own ensemble Overseas (currently Malaby, Kenny Wollesen and Jacob Sacks), with three albums to date, has ...

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Article: Interview

Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars

Read "Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars" reviewed by John Kelman


It's hard to imagine vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in his seventies. Not only does he look and sound like a man 10 years (or more) his junior, but a quick look at the projects he's been involved in over the past few years sound like anything but a septuagenarian resting on his not inconsiderable laurels.

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On Broadway Vol. 5

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Morrock; Something I Dreamed Last Night; Just A Gigolo; I See Your Face Before Me; A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening; Midnight Sun; Sue Me.

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Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. II

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Till we meet again; Sunflower; The third walk; Ten; The divider; If you could see me now; Fiasco.


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