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Article: Album Review

The Ullmann/Swell 4: News? No News!

Read "News? No News!" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


There is a marvelous gravitas that emanates from the musical waves that rush onward and beat the inner ear, spreading colors and textures like brilliant volatile smears on the music's canvas. The awesome density of Steve Swell's trombone carving the air in great circles of sound, swirling around the growling of Gebhard Ullmann's tenor saxophone brings ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Middelheim 2010

Read "Jazz Middelheim 2010" reviewed by Martin Longley


Jazz MiddelheimPark Den BrandtAntwerpen, BelgiumAugust 12-15, 2010 The Jazz Middelheim festival is a weekender that hasn't relinquished its fondness for adventure over the last four decades. Nuzzling up against stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Davis: Images

Read "Images" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


It is easy to mistake trombonist Steve Davis for an aesthete--which he is, possessing an undying sense of lyricism to show for it. But he is a deeper musician than one who merely subscribes to the aesthetical philosophy. Each of Images' ten compositions far transcends warmth and lyrical beauty, standing out as astute forms of modal ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Karl E. H. Seigfried: Portrait Of Jack Johnson

Read "Karl E. H. Seigfried: Portrait Of Jack Johnson" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Karl E.H. SeigfriedPortrait Of Jack JohnsonImaginary Chicago Records2010 Boxing and jazz don't seem like a natural fit, but the two disciplines share ideals at their cores. Both thrive on the unexpected and live as poetry in motion. Jazz musicians and boxers both work hard and long, spending ...

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Article: Album Review

New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff

Read "Old Stuff" reviewed by Nic Jones


Hindsight can be a wonderful thing. For instance, if this music is imbibed with a measure of it, it's possible to hear that the frontline of trombonist Roswell Rudd and saxophonist John Tchicai is one of the most distinctive in improvised music of recent decades. Rudd enjoyed, of course, a similar musical relationship with Steve Lacy, ...

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News: Recording

Roswell Rudd - Blown Bone (Emanem)

Roswell Rudd - Blown Bone (Emanem)

Martin Davidson, proprietor of Emanem, has long made it a custom to include helpful “File under:" tags on his releases to aid harried record shop clerks in correctly identifying contents. Blown Bone, a reissue of a 1979 Japanese-only Philips platter, carries the colorful signifier “Jazz (Free/Blues/Latin)," a definite first in the commonly free improv-focused catalog and ...

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Article: Live Review

Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header ...

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News: Award / Grant

Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2010 Jazz Award Winners

Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2010 Jazz Award Winners

The Jazz Journalists Association announced winners of the 2010 Jazz Awards at the City Winery in New York City on Monday, June 14, honoring honoring more than 40 musicians, presenters, jazz supporters and jazz journalists for the 14th year. Recipients of the Jazz Awards receive engraved statuettes from the international organization of some 450 writers, broadcasters, ...

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News: Award / Grant

2010 JJA Jazz Awards Winners

The winners for the 2010 JJA Jazz Awards honoring excellence in music-making and music documentation, nominated by 60 professional Jazz Journalists Association members. = winner 1. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Muhal Richard Abrams Jimmy Heath James Moody Paul Motian Wayne Shorter Randy Weston 2. Musician of the Year Dave Douglas

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Article: Multiple Reviews

David Haney: Blue Flint Girl and Live from Yoshi's

Read "David Haney: Blue Flint Girl and Live from Yoshi's" reviewed by Clifford Allen


David Haney TrioBlue Flint GirlCIMP2009 The David Haney CollectiveLive from Yoshi'sCadence Jazz Records2009 The center of the jazz world is still considered to be Gotham, even though one can pretty ...


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