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Article: Album Review

Rob Parton: Rob Parton Quartet

Read "Rob Parton Quartet" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Chicago trumpeter Rob Parton has been leading his phenomenal JAZZTECH Big Band for the better part of two decades now, but it was four years of quartet gigs at the Catch 35 Restaurant and Club in Chicago that inspired Rob Parton Quartet. Parton began performing at the club in 2005 with his favorite longtime drummer Bob ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Posi-Tone Records

Read "Posi-Tone Records" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman

Posi-Tone Records is an extraordinary anomaly in these times, an independent, thriving jazz label that continues to find new and established musicians and works continually to improve each aspect of production to release a final product of superior quality. As the market has changed the company has sought and accepted new ways to do business that ...

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Article: Album Review

Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now

Read "The Will Come, Is Now" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

For Ronnie Boykins, Sun Ra's bassist, The Will Come, Is Now brings to a close a remarkable sojourn that stretched from his galactic showcasing with the Arkestra at the Judson Hall performances of 1964 to an intellectual deconstruction of bebop. During the years that followed, Boykins appeared with Sam Rivers and was also heard at Ornette ...

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Article: Album Review

Andratx: Live

Read "Live" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

The Nordic jazz trio of Jonas Kullhammar, Kresten Osgood and Ole Morten Vågan is the type of super group that keeps the jazz tradition alive, not in the sense of an institution as much as a provocateur praxis. Andratx Live is its second release following a self-titled record on Moserbie in 2007. The three ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Carlos Redman

Read "Take Five With Carlos Redman" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

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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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

Read "Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes

Read "Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...

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Article: Album Review

Trio Viriditas: Live at Vision Festival VI

Read "Live at Vision Festival VI" reviewed by Greg Camphire

by Greg Camphire

Recorded at the 2001 edition of the long-running New York concert series, Live at Vision Festival VI showcases the top-notch Trio Viriditas, featuring reedsman/trumpeter Alfred Harth, percussionist Kevin Norton, and the late Wilbur Morris on bass. The long overdue release of this set follows the band's studio effort waxwebwind@ebroadway (Clean Feed, 2002); both capture a band ...

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News: Festival

Sam Rivers Leads Strong Topeka Jazz Lineup

Sam Rivers Leads Strong Topeka Jazz Lineup

The little jazz festival that could continues to grow and evolve in surprising ways. The three-day Coleman Hawkins Legacy Jazz Festival, just a couple of gallons of gas away in Topeka, has a new location and an even stronger lineup this year. It's a far cry from its scraggly but spirited beginnings, but the music-loving and ...

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Article: Album Review

Sam Rivers - Ben Street - Kresten Osgood: Violet Violets

Read "Violet Violets" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

All'età di 82 anni (alla data d'incisione di questo disco) Sam Rivers torna in sala d'incisione - su invito dell'emergente batterista danese Kresten Osgood - dimostrando di vivere una splendida seconda giovinezza. Dopo aver trascorso gli anni ottanta in mediocre oscurità (nonostante un periodo come sideman di Dizzy Gillespie) da un decennio il grande sassofonista che ...


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