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Jazz Passengers: Reunited

Read "Reunited" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Don't mistake the music made by The Jazz Passengers as merely camp or burlesque send-ups. Sure, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes dons the persona of the infamous “Peaches," from the duo Peaches and Herb, for the 1970's hit, “Reunited." The irony dissolves underneath Roy Nathanson and Fowlkes' spoken/sung duet with Sam Bardfeld's pizzicato violin and Marc Ribot's now-patented ...

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The Jazz Passengers: Reunited

Read "Reunited" reviewed by Troy Collins


Reunions have become a requisite aspect of the music business, though the end results can vary in quality. Reunited, The Jazz Passengers first recording in twelve years, is a stellar example of this phenomenon. Picking up where they left off, this vivacious studio session juxtaposes mellifluous crooning, adventurous post-bop and stylistic eclecticism with irrepressible charm and ...

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Roy Nathanson: Subway Moon

Read "Subway Moon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il mondo della metropolitana e della quotidianità newyorchese sono al centro di questo CD, dove si ritrovano alcuni dei più interessanti versi dell'eclettico Roy Nathanson. La cifra stilistica che lo informa ricalca quella dei Lounge Lizard, formazione di culto in cui militò Nathanson, prima di divenire leader ed animatore dei Jazz Passengers. Non c'è un vero ...

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Article: Book Review

Subway Moon

Read "Subway Moon" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Subway Moon Roy Nathanson Soft cover; 134 pages ISBN 978-3-00-025376-8 Buddy's Knife 2009 Poetry, like music, is about movement. Both art forms move from one note, or word, to another, trying to catch the essence of the moment. Saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson has long worked ...

Article: Book Review

Roy Nathanson: Subway Moon

Read "Roy Nathanson: Subway Moon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Subway Moon di Roy Nathanson Buddy's Knife, 2009, 135 pagine Fondatore e leader dei Jazz Passengers, gruppo di punta dell'avanguardia bianca newyorkese, Roy Nathanson è anche un apprezzato versificatore. Pubblicato dalla casa editrice tedesca Buddy's Knife, Subway Moon raccoglie alcuni dei più rappresentativi versi del sassofonista statunitense, con l'aggiunta di un testo in prosa dedicato al ...

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Enja Records

Read "Enja Records" reviewed by Donald Elfman


Matthias Winckelmann's favorite recording of the hundreds he's made is the one just finished. Over the years, he's documented music from all over the world and of many different stripes and has always been eloquent and passionate. His label Enja has been in existence for 38 years and a look at the catalogue tells you that ...

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Roy Nathanson: Subway Moon

Read "Subway Moon" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


If the expression “renaissance musician" existed in the dictionary, it would probably show a picture of saxophonist Roy Nathanson. The leader of the Jazz Passengers has undergone numerous artistic rebirths throughout his career as a member of The Lounge Lizards, performing with Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello, and Marc Ribot, composing for film and theater, acting, teaching, ...

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Roy Nathanson: Subway Moon

Read "Subway Moon" reviewed by Joel Roberts


Subway Moon, alto saxophonist Roy Nathanson's ambitious new album of jazz and spoken word, defies easy categorization. It mixes an accessible brand of avant-garde jazz with R&B, hip hop, Jewish music and multi-vocal harmonies; poignant biographical revelations with humorous observations of urban life; high-art concept with a gritty New York street sensibility. This eclecticism should come ...

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Roy Nathanson: Auditory Circus

Read "Roy Nathanson: Auditory Circus" reviewed by Maxwell Chandler


Saxophonist Roy Nathanson was in one of the earliest versions of The Lounge Lizards, which he left to found The Jazz Passengers, a group that slowly morphed into his new ensemble, Sotto Voce. In between he also co-led a duo with keyboardist and composer, Anthony Coleman and released, among others, the ground-breaking album I Could've Been ...

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Roy Nathanson: Sotto Voce

Read "Sotto Voce" reviewed by Brad Glanden


The Italian term selected by saxophonist Roy Nathanson as the title of his latest CD connotes a hushing of sung or spoken tones, a deceptive name for a recording with so many worthwhile things to say. On Sotto Voce, the Jazz Passengers co-founder leads an idiosyncratic five-piece through an unholy hodgepodge of pop, post bop, hip-hop ...


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