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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2009: Day 7 Finale

by John Sharpe
July 24, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Jason Kao Hwang's Spontaneous River / Trio X / Patricia Nicholson Dance / William Parker Quartet 14th Annual Vision Festival Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts New York City

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 6

by John Sharpe
July 19, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Planet Dream / Fred Anderson Trio / Michelle Rosewoman and Quintessence / Whit Dickey/Eri Yamamoto/Daniel Carter / Peter Brotzmann's Full Blast Trio 14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 5

by John Sharpe
July 17, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Seth Meicht's Big Sound Ensemble / Bear and Eagle / Darius Jones Trio / Matthew Shipp / Rob Brown Trio / Milford Graves Quartet / Lisa Sokolov Trio / Joe Morris GoGo Mambo 14th Annual ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steve Swell: Magical Listening Hour & Planet Dream

by Wilbur MacKenzie
June 6, 2009

Magical Listening HourLive @ Southstreet SeaportCadence Jazz Records2009 Steve SwellPlanet DreamClean Feed2009 While these two new discs from trombonist Steve Swell may exhibit elements of contrasting methodology, at the root ...

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Article: Album Review

Right Hemisphere: Right Hemisphere

Read "Right Hemisphere" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
May 28, 2009

In the early '80s, saxophonist Rob Brown and pianist Matthew Shipp played as a duo, eventually forming a quartet with William Parker on bass and Whit Dickey on drums and releasing the CD Points on Silkheart in 1990. Flash-forward to the present, where Joe Morris has taken over the bass chair, and the group has released ...

Article: Album Review

William Parker: Double Sunrise Over Neptune

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 26, 2009

L'Oriente incontra l'Occidente, l'Asia incontra l'Africa, i mantra incontrano l'improvvisazione, la forma incontra la libertà, la musica etnica incontra il jazz, la sperimentazione incontra la tradizione. Questo e molto altro accade in Double Sunrise Over Neptune, lavoro orchestrale dell'infaticabile William Parker che, per l'occasione, riunisce sedici musicisti organizzati in sezione ritmica, sezione fiati, quartetto d'archi, voce ...

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Crown Trunk Root Funk

By Rob Brown

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2008
Track listing: Rocking Horse; Clearly Speaking; Sonic Ecosystem; Ghost Dog; Exuberance; Lifeboat; Worlds Spinning.

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News: Interview

Saxophonist Rob Brown Interviewed at AAJ

August 25, 2008

Alto saxophonist Rob Brown would feature highly on most people's lists of modern purveyors of reed magic. Leading New York avant-garde bassist William Parker has featured Brown for the last fifteen years, and Brown has been associated, both as sideman and leader, with other well-known modern jazz musicians including Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey. ...

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Article: Interview

Rob Brown: No More "Mr. Avant Garde"

by John Sharpe
August 25, 2008

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Article: Album Review

Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk

Read "Crown Trunk Root Funk" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 5, 2008

One-off assemblages can be hit or miss affairs, but so powerful was saxophonist Rob Brown's ensemble at the 2006 Vision Festival that it was deemed essential that they were brought into the studio. With his carefully controlled use of harmonics and split tones, allied to a quicksilver inventiveness, Brown is one of the ...