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Article: Album Review

Mike Mainieri: Crescent

Read "Crescent" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 19, 2010

Vibraphonist Mike Mainieri might have initially set out to create a tribute to one saxophone giant when he recorded this album, but Crescent actually pays respects to two reed players of note. The material on this two-CD set was written and/or performed by John Coltrane or was part of his repertoire at one time or another, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Kali. Z. Fasteau

by AAJ Staff
September 9, 2010

Meet Kali. Z. Fasteau: Kali. Z. Fasteau is from a musical family, playing piano, cello, flute, and voice since early childhood in Paris and New York. Her piano teacher, for eight years, was Olga Heifetz. She started improvising at age 14. She received post-grad degrees studying the music of Asia, Africa, 20th Century ...

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Article: Interview

Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free

by Glenn Astarita
August 25, 2010

The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Day 7, June 29, 2010

by John Sharpe
August 23, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Charles Gayle, William Parker, Muhammad Ali, Lafayette Gilchrist, Gerald Cleaver, Vladimir TarasovVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York City29 June 2010 For the last evening of the Fifteenth ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Day 6, June 28, 2010

by John Sharpe
August 22, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Marilyn Crispell, Joelle Leandre, Roy Campbell, Mat Maneri, Wadada Leo Smith, Gunter “Baby" Sommer, Joe Morris, Mike ReedVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 28, 2010With only ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Day 4, June 26, 2010

by John Sharpe
August 17, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Areni Agbabian, Lorenzo Sanguedolce, Go-Zee-Lah Reggie Nicholson, Borah Bergman, Ned Rothenberg Mark Helias, Tony Malaby, Charles GayleVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 26, 2010Saturday was a ...

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Article: Interview

Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again

by Carl L. Hager
August 9, 2010

When that cool, overcast dawn arrived in Bethel, New York, neither the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair's expired permit, nor the rain, mud, and technical problems could have kept Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys from playing. It was destiny. Believe it. A hundred miles south on that same morning of August ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Allen Carter Big Band / Lucerne Jazz Orchestra / Joris Teepe Big Band

by Jack Bowers
August 3, 2010

Allen Carter Big BandGiftsAC Muzik2010 If there were any integrity or enlightenment in the music business as we know it in 2010--not to mention among listeners--drummer Allen Carter's debut big-band album, Gifts, would surely go platinum or at least earn a well-deserved Grammy Award. As not much of ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Prologue

by John Sharpe
July 20, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Darius Jones Trio, Tim Berne's Lowest Common DenominatorVision Festival PrologueLocal 269New York CityJune 21, 2010Contrary to the belt tightening going on all around, ...

News: Interview

Drummer Muhammed Ali Interviewed at AAJ

July 7, 2010

Though not as well known as his brother, drummer Rashied Ali (1935-2009), Muhammad Ali spent the 1970s as one of the busiest drummers in free jazz, primarily working in a cooperative Paris-based quartet with saxophonist Frank Wright, pianist Bobby Few and bassist Alan Silva, and known as the Center of the World Quartet. Born in Philadelphia ...