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Article: Album Review

Andrew Green: Narrow Margin

Read "Narrow Margin" reviewed by J Hunter


Film noir used to be what the Internet is nowadays: something to blame for why the world is going south in a sidecar. Noir films were black and white, but the story lines weren't. The good guys weren't all good, the bad guys weren't always that bad, and the girls with hearts of gold only had ...

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News: Education

Litchfield Jazz Camp Awards $90,000 in Need-Based Scholarships

Litchfield Jazz Camp Awards $90,000 in Need-Based Scholarships

Litchfield Jazz Camp Awards $90,000 in Need-Based Scholarships Location: Kent School, Kent, CT Contact: 860-567-4162 Email: [email protected] Website: litchfieldjazzfest.com Kent. CT--Litchfield Jazz Camp, the 13-year-old teaching arm of the renowned Litchfield Jazz Festival, has made if first big move this summer-- to Kent School in Kent, CT, for a month-long ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Rigby: The Sage

Read "The Sage" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The sophomore release of New York-based saxophonist/composer Jason Rigby features him as a unique new voice that deserves wider attention. His deep, full-bodied tenor sound and his inside-outside jazz vocabulary reference sax greats such as John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, while his elastic sense of time sounds closer to the fluid playfulness of Ornette Coleman. His ...

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Michael Bates: Live In New York

Read "Live In New York" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Prevalent in the musical ethic of Michael Bates is a masterful balance of instrumental and compositional elements. Live in New York is Bates' group Outside Sources--Russ Johnson (trumpet), Quinsin Nachoff (saxophone and clarinet) and drummer Jeff Davis --documented at a Fall 2008 Cornelia Street Café gig. The initial snap of the snare on ...

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Jason Rigby: The Sage

Read "The Sage" reviewed by J Hunter


When purists maintain their Cheney-like insistence that nobody could have foreseen Miles Davis recording something as incendiary as Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), they reveal a blind spot the size of the Chrysler Building. The pre-Brew signs were as plain as the glasses on Stanley Crouch's face: First there was Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968), which codified ...

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News: Event

Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast at Issue Project Room, February 25

Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast at Issue Project Room, February 25

KEN THOMSON - SAXOPHONIST/CLARINETIST/COMPOSER WITH GUTBUCKET, BANG ON A CAN, SIGNAL, AND MORE UNVEILS NEW GROUP “KEN THOMSON and SLOW/FAST” ISSUE PROJECT ROOM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009, 8PM 232 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 100% new music written throughout 2008 -- New project blends heavily composed long-form elements with improvisation, presenting a dynamic ...

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Root Down

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. The Dawn Part I - III; 2. Lady (Fela Kuti); 3. Analog - Vamp For Lady; 4. City Of Noise; 5. MRA (Dudu Pukwana); 6. Kirui Part I - V; 7. The Root; 8. Makaya And The Rain; 9. The Drought - Colo Vamp; 10. Zombie (Fela Kuti); 11. Gebrselassie Tutte le composizioni sono di Tommy Meier, tranne dove indicato altrimenti.

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Tommy Meier: Root Down

Read "Root Down" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'Africa, nelle sue radici più profonde e sofferte. Quella dei musicisti sudafricani in esilio (od auto-esilio, come nel caso del pianista bianco Chris McGregor), o delle canzoni di protesta contro lo sfruttamento (un cenno a “Colonial Mentality" di Fela Kuti) o la corruzione e la tirannia ("Zombie", sempre di Fela Kuti). E però anche l'Africa dei ...

Album

Crazy Girl

Label: WMF Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Crazy Girl (Komeda) - 11.14; 02. Kattorna (Komeda) - 9.14; 03. Ballada (Komeda) - 5.09; 04. Is That Tour Final Answer? (Winnicki) - 8:47 05. Svantetic Prelude (Komeda) - 2.39; 06. Svantetic (Komeda) - 8.38; 07. Tail Peace (Winnicki) - 6:45; 08. Stop Time (Winnicki) - 7:45; 09. Sleep Safe and Warm (Komeda) - 1.09.

Album

Crazy Girl

Label: WM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Crazy Girl; Kattorna; Ballada; Is That Your Final Answer?; Svantetic Prelude; Svantetic; Tail Peace; Stop Time; Sleep Safe and Warm.


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