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Article: Extended Analysis

Special Edition

Read "Special Edition" reviewed by John Kelman


With drummer/keyboardist Jack DeJohnette entering his eighth decade on planet earth, he's managed to accomplish what few other drummers have. Recipient of the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award, there are few jazz drummer s alive today who can cite as many recordings as the Chicago-born DeJohnette can, nor are there many who have been on such ...

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Article: Album Review

Alberto Mizrahi: Matzah to Menorah: A Holiday Jazz Celebration

Read "Matzah to Menorah: A Holiday Jazz Celebration" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


There is a well-established legacy of fusing the sacred with the secular in jazz. Pianist Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music (RCA, 1966) is, perhaps, the most ceremonial example of this but there is a myriad of other recordings. Guitarist Grant Green's gospel-inspired Feelin' the Spirit (Blue Note, 1962), pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane's exploration of Hinduism and ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Dezron Douglas

Read "Take Five With Dezron Douglas" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Dezron Douglas: On Dezron Douglas: Live at Smalls, the bass prodigy is presented with a band of his peers: the highly original Stacy Dillard, the fiery Josh Evans, pianist David Bryant and the veteran drummer Willie Jones III.Hailing from Hartford, CT, Douglas is a product of the Jackie McLean institute. Quickly establishing himself ...

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Article: Interview

Davey Payne: Ready To Play

Read "Davey Payne: Ready To Play" reviewed by Sammy Stein


Davey Payne is known best for the time when he was saxophonist with British group, The Blockheads. His solo on the 1978 number 1 hit, “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" was the first time a double sax solo had appeared on a hit record. Before he joined forces with Dury, who fronted The ...

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The Pharoah Sanders Story: In the Beginning 1963-1965

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD 1: 01. Pharoah Sanders Interview: Coming to New York; 02. Cocktail Piece [First Variation, Take 1]; 03. Cocktail Piece [First Variation, Take 2]; 04. Studio Engineer Announcement ; 05. Cherry's Dilemma; 06. Studio Engineer Announcement; 07. Remembrance [First Variation]; 08. Medley: Light Blue/Coming on the Hudson/Bye-Ya/Ruby My Dear/Embassy Music; 09. Don Cherry Interview: Ornette's Influence, Pt. 1; 10. Don Cherry Interview: Ornette's Influence, Pt. 2; 11. Paul Bley Interview: 1960's Avant Garde; 12. Generous, Pt. 1 [Take][Take 1]; 13. Generous, Pt. 1 [Take][Take 2]; 14. Walking Woman [Take][Take 1]; 15. Walking Woman [Take][Take 2]; 16. Ictus; 17. After Session Conversation. CD 2: 01. Pharoah Sanders Interview: Musicians He Performed With, Pt. 1; 02. Bernard Stollman Interview: Meetin Pharoah Sanders; 03. Seven By Seven ; 04. Bethera; 05. Pharoah Sanders Interview: Musicians He Performed With, Pt. 2. CD 3: 01. Pharoah Sanders Interview: Meeting Sun Ra; 02. Dawn Over Israel; 03. The Shadow World; 04. The Second Stop Is Jupiter; 05. Discipline #9; 06. We Travel the Spaceways. CD 4: 01. Sun Ra Interview: Being Neglected as an Artist; 02. Gods on Safari; 03. The Shadow World; 04. Rocket #9; 05. The Voice of Pan, Pt. 1; 06. Dawn Over Israel; 07. Space Mates; 08. The Voice of Pan, Pt. 2; 09. The Talking Drum; 10. Conversation With Saturn; 11. The Next Stop Mars; 12. The Second Stop Is Jupiter; 13. Pathway to the Outer Known; 14. Sun Ran Interview: Meeting John Coltrane; 15. Pharoah Sanders Interview: John Coltrane; 16. Pharoah Sanders Interview: Playing at Slug's/Max Gordon; 17. Pharoah Sanders Interview: Closing Comments.

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Article: Album Review

Nat Birchall: World Without Form

Read "World Without Form" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


In a world that often seems bereft of any sense of spirituality it's good to know that performers like saxophonist Nat Birchall are still true to the spirituality of music. Birchall, based in the northeast of England, continues to create beautiful, soulful, music on his fifth album as leader, World Without Form, in the company of ...

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Article: Live Review

On The Road With The Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet

Read "On The Road With The Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Though it was only a 12-hour flight from Singapore to London, for Singaporean organist/pianist Jeremy Monteiro, Philippine tenor saxophonist Tots Tolentino, Hong Kong guitarist Eugene Pao and Thai drummer Chanutr Techatana-nan--who together make up the Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet--the journey has, in some ways, been a much longer one; you could say it's a journey ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Stephans / Spatial Edition: Open Spaces

Read "Open Spaces" reviewed by Chuck Koton


Michael Stephans--educator and published author of prose and poetry--also happens to be a master jazz drummer and percussionist. The Miami-born Stephans, who these days lives in the surprisingly jazz-heavy Pennsylvania Poconos, has performed with world renowned horn players like Pharoah Sanders, Dave Liebman and Bennie Maupin, as well as Grammy-winning pianist, Alan Broadbent, among others. On ...

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Article: Interview

Bobby Zankel: Revisiting Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”

Read "Bobby Zankel: Revisiting Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


John Coltrane's iconic A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) is a jazz perennial, continuing to attract and move listeners around the globe nearly five decades after it was released. Great musicians, such as guitarists John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, and saxophonist Joshua Redman cite its profound influence on their career. The Branford Marsalis Quartet , with A ...


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