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Guardian Angels

November 14, 2012

Album: Respect Vol.1
By Roy Assaf
Label: Jazz Legacy Productions
Released: 0
Duration: 4:43

Article: Album Review

Innovation and as-yet-unheard-of ideals tend to sell headlines in jazz, but they mean nothing without respect for those who paved the road to the present. Many young emerging talents seem content to walk into jazz without doing their due diligence in discovery and digestion, but that often puts them in a peculiar position of being a ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Garrison - Saxophone: Blood Songs

Read "Blood Songs" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 24, 2012

Presenting a primarily original repertoire of sparkling modern jazz, New York saxophonist Matt Garrison follows up his critically acclaimed debut, Familiar Places (DCLEF, 2011), with Blood Songs, an audacious musical tribute to his loving parents. With the exception of producer/trombonist Michael Dease, Garrison assembles a new all-star list of players, including veterans like saxophonist Eric Alexander ...

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Augmented Reality

By Roy Assaf

Label: Daywood Drive Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Tabacon; Alfonsina Y El Mar; Sphere; Morning Of Sorrow; Sepharadic; Stone And Sun; Only Trust Your Heart; Ohel Israel; Dry Tear; Un-; Leaving; Budva.

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News: Festival

Annual Jazz Party at Sea Announces Lineup

October 16, 2011

The Annual Jazz Party At Sea is pleased to announce the lineup for the 12th Annual departure, November 4th through the 11th, 2012. We will set sail from New Orleans for seven nights aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's m/s Norwegian Star visiting Costa Maya, Belize City, Roatan and Cozumel. Featured artists include Renee Rosnes Quartet with Peter ...

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Janelle Reichman: Middleground

Read "Middleground" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 4, 2011

It's a pity that someone as conspicuously talented as Janelle Reichman couldn't prompt at least one bona fide record label to release her remarkable debut, Middleground. But that's emblematic of today's music biz: without a name, talent simply doesn't cut it. While the other members of Reichman's quintet are also nameless--or may as well be--they are ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Saxophonist Benjamin Drazen Performs at the 55 Bar, September 8, 2011

August 12, 2011

Saxophonist Benjamin Drazen brings his ensemble—including pianist Roy Assaf, bassist Francois Mouton, and drummer Tony Moreno—to the 55 Bar for a performance on Thursday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m. Praised by Jazz Times as a “potent alto saxophonist" who plays “with soulful authority," Benjamin Drazen has performed alongside some of jazz's luminaries, including Rashied Ali, George ...

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Tabacon

June 16, 2011

Album: Augmented Reality
By Roy Assaf
Label: Daywood Drive Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 3:36

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Article: Album Review

Augmented Reality: Augmented Reality

Read "Augmented Reality" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 14, 2011

Collaborative trios are a tricky business. While all three members might set out to form an equal musical partnership, that rarely happens. Sometimes the instrumentation dictates the focal point, as with the fascinating group, Fly--drummer Jeff Ballard, bassist Larry Grenadier and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner--which is as democratic as they come, yet the horn draws the ...

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Andarta

By Roy Assaf

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: All of You; You Don't Know What Love Is; Stuv; On the Way...; The Saga of Imaba; Waltz for T; Andarta.