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Tauhid / Jewels of Thought

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2015
Track listing: Tauhid; Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt; Japan; Aum / Venus / Capricorn Rising; Jewels of Thought; Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah; Sun In Aquarius;

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Article: Book Review

Free Jazz / Black Power

Read "Free Jazz / Black Power" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Free Jazz / Black Power Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli 256 Pages ISBN: ISBN 978-1-62846-039-1 University Press of Mississippi 2015 Forty four years after its publication in French, Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's thought-provoking, fiercely intellectual book Free Jazz/Black Power finally finds its way into English, ...

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Article: Album Review

Danny Mixon: Pass It On

Read "Pass It On" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Despite his low profile, veteran pianist Danny Mixon has quite a history. His career has included stints playing with Betty Carter, Kenny Dorham, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Frank Foster, Grant Green, Pharoah Sanders, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Charles Mingus, and many others. Most of Pass It On finds him alternating between solos and trios. Many of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages

Read "Ask the Ages" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Guitarist Sonny Sharrock had been recording since 1969, in a variety of formats. In 1991, he recorded his masterpiece, Ask the Ages for Axiom records. The recording was produced by Sharrock and MOD Technologies founder and bassist Bill Laswell. Axiom Records was a precursor to Laswell's MOD Technologies. It is fitting that Laswell resurrect Sharrock's magnum ...

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Article: Lyrics

Piccola guida al nuovo jazz italiano

Read "Piccola guida al nuovo jazz italiano" reviewed by Luca Canini


Non è vero che il jazz italiano sta bene. Non è vero che siamo il paese dei festival e che abbiamo musicisti che tutto il mondo ci invidia. Possiamo raccontarcela tra di noi, se vi va. Facendo finta che questo sia il migliore dei mondi possibili e che il sole dell'avvenire splenda alto sopra l'orizzonte, ma ...

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Article: Album Review

Konstrukt & Joe McPhee: If You Have Time

Read "If You Have Time" reviewed by Mark Corroto


There was a time when free jazz was a mysteriously strange and exotic beast, a music that evoked the “what did I just hear?" response. Today's jazz snob may quote the motto of the rock band Jane's Addiction and tell you “nothing's shocking." And that may be true. That is, if one's ears are not open ...

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Take Five with Andrea Brachfeld

Read "Take Five with Andrea Brachfeld" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Andrea Brachfeld: Flutist Andrea Brachfeld, a graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, and recent recipient of the “Best Jazz Flute" award from Hot House Magazine, began her musical career at 16 and has associated with Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Hubert Laws, Nestor Torres, Dave Valentin, Paquito D'Rivera, Wycliffe Gordon and Wallace Roney, ...

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Article: Album Review

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters

Read "A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters" reviewed by Mark Corroto


For many a jazz fan John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is their personal desert island pick, the one recording they would not hesitate to live their days out listening to. Recorded on December 9, 1964, the session has endured as a document of the saxophonist's faith, as it was the proclamation of his rebirth from the ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Girl Talk: Saxophonists Nicole Glover and Kirsten Edkins

Read "Girl Talk:  Saxophonists Nicole Glover and Kirsten Edkins" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The universe of horn players ceased being a “boys club" about thirty years ago. Women have taken commanding roles in both the trumpet (Carol Morgan, Ingrid Jensen, Saskia Laroo) and saxophone (Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Nancy Wright, Virginia Mayhew, Pattie Cossentino, Jane Ira Bloom, Claire Daly). Add to these lists two new names, Nicole Glover and ...

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Article: Album Review

Geof Bradfield Quintet: Our Roots

Read "Our Roots" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Discussing “roots" in the context of jazz, a good starting point is the Mississippi delta, down in New Orleans, where the music of trumpeters King Oliver and Louis Armstrong grew strong. And then there's the rich earth of the delta in north western Mississippi, up near Clarksdale, where the blues grew and blossomed. The roots from ...


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