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Article: Film Review

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode One: The Quiet Revolution

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Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three | Episode Four --->Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseEpisode One: The Quiet Revolution The Documentary ChannelApril 20, 2009, 09:00-10:00PMParadigm Studio2009Many still look back at Ken Burns' Jazz (2001) as the documentary that ...

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Take Five With Carlos Redman

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Meet Carlos Redman: A Detroit native, Carlos Redman is one of a new breed of modern experimental trumpeters of the current generation. Blending a sultry combination of hip-hop, R&B, rock, and classical in jazz genres, the young horn player continues to defy boundaries as he is often drawn in comparison to the great Donald ...

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Plays Miles

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Tutu; Bitches Brew; Blue in Green; Footprints; Nardis; All Blues; Eighty One; New New Blues.

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Russell Gunn: Plays Miles

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Since introducing his hip hop/funk/fusion-centric Ethnomusicology series in 1999--culminating in Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live in Atlanta (Justin-Time, 2004)-- forward-looking trumpeter Russell Gunn has alternated straight-ahead fare for HighNote like 2002's Blue on the D.L., with Ethnomusicology releases for a variety of labels. With Plays Miles, however, he finds clear common ground. Given his steadfast avoidance of ...

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Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live in Atlanta

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Sam Yi (Spoken Intro); Blue in Green; More Sybil's Blues; Summertime; Lyne's Joint; Shiva the Destroyer

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Russell Gunn: Ethnomusicology Vol. 4: Live in Atlanta

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As an alternative to Wynton Marsalis, who steadfastly hangs onto the singular American Jazz Tradition and, granted, eloquently and skillfully keeps it alive through his playing, educating and entrepreneuring, trumpeter Russell Gunn has shown an unerring desire over the course of the past ten years to merge styles into a personal language that asserts jazz as ...

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Ethnomusicology, Vol. 3

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Celebrity Room (Intro) - 0:47 2. No Separation - 4:12 3. The Critic's Song - 2:54 4. Variations (On a Conspiracy Theory) - 6:04 5. East St. Louis - 5:45 6. John Wicks - 7:06 7. Yesterdays - 7:35 8. Strange Fruit - 4:03 9. Stranger Fruit - 7:00

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Ethnomusicolgy Vol.3

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2003

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Russell Gunn: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 3

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Russell Gunn has a problem with critics--but only the ones who don't like his music. The third track on this record makes this point more than abundantly clear. And it's pure hypocrisy. Regardless, I'm afraid I'll have to join this elite group. Gunn's last record (Vol. 2) was a brilliant blending of jazz with ...


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