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Larry Och's Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift

Read "Stone Shift" reviewed by John Sharpe


Fifty years after its inception, the avant-garde still regularly begs the hoary old question “Is it jazz?" Notwithstanding that it has persisted as an active style as long or longer than most of its predecessors, with a small but committed following around the globe while continuing to reinvent itself in different ways wherever the seed germinates, ...

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Kuroi Kawa - Black River

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: Konoha No Sasayaki -The Murmur of Leaves; Kogane Mushi -Scarab; To Ho - East; Rakuda - Camel; Mado Wo Akeru - Open The Window; Eki Deno Ichi Nichi - One Day at the Station; Suiheisen - Between Sky And Water; Koneko - Kitty; Kagami - Mirror; Kibo - Hope; Tsuchi No Naka - In The Ground; Sora No Naka - In The Sky; Arabesque; Maho No Jyutan - Magic Carpet; Amadare - Raindrop; Yume No Naka - In The Dream; Kamikazari - Berette; Chiheisen - Sky And Land. CD2: Kuroi Kawa - Black River; Aoi Saka - Blue Slope; Murasaki No Natsu - Purple Summer; Akai Kaze - Red Wind; Midori No Shinkiro - Green Mirage; Shropi Arashi - White Storm.

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Heat Wave

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Heat Wave - 5:29; 02. Beyond The Horizon - 8:58; 03. Mosaic - 7:20; 04. Ring A Bell - 6:57; 05. Tornado - 6:43; 06. The Squall In The Sahara - 7:23; 07. Amoeba - 5:02; 08. Spiral Staircase - 4:25; 09. To The Skies - 3:04. Tutte le composizioni sono di Satoko Fujii.

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Under The Water

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Yadokari; Trace a River; The Migration of Fish; Be Melting snow; Utsubo.

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Minamo: Kuroi Kawa - Black River

Read "Kuroi Kawa - Black River" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The astonishing double CD Kuroi Kawa--Black River finds pianist Satoko Fujii and violinist Carla Kihlstedt getting together for a second time, after Minamo (Henceforth, 2007). The earlier recording is comprised of two fortuitous live performances that were stunning in how completely at ease these two performers were with each other. Exhilarated by their ...

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Minamo: Kuroi Kawa - Black River

Read "Kuroi Kawa - Black River" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Minamo, the fiercely creative duo comprising violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist Satoko Fujii, has done it again. This time, the duo comes together on Kuroi Kawa - Black River, a magnificent two-CD presentation: the first, a studio set of eighteen short improvised studies of sublime ingenuity; the second, a live performance recorded at the 2008 Vancouver ...

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Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift

Read "Stone Shift" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Larry Ochs, best known for his work with the long-standing ROVA saxophone quartet, has been working an unusual and satisfying side project for close to a decade. His Drumming Core, founded in 2000, is a trio with two drummers dedicated to exploring American field hollers and Asian chants. The first two CDs were rewarding, if more ...

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Satoko Fujii - Myra Melford: Under the Water

Read "Under the Water" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Impermanenza, spontaneità, leggerezza, autenticità, eleganza, fluidità del pensiero musicale. Non credo siano casuali i numerosi riferimenti all'acqua nelle discografie di Satoko Fujii e Myra Melford: acqua nel disco in duo che la Fujii pubblicò nel '95 con Paul Bley, Something About Water; acqua nello splendido The Same River, Twice, album firmato dalla Melford nel '96; acqua ...

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Leigh Sutherlin at Tango Del Rey, San Diego, CA

Read "Leigh Sutherlin at Tango Del Rey, San Diego, CA" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Leigh Sutherlin QuartetTango Del ReySan Diego, CaliforniaAugust 16, 2009San Diego may not have the most robust of jazz scenes, but there are clubs out there doing their share to shine a bright light on artists local and national. Dizzy's In Downtown has been a local mainstay, featuring artists as diverse as ...

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The Jazz Session #79: Myra Melford

The Jazz Session #79: Myra Melford

Listen Pianist Myra Melford. Melford is active with many groups and on many recordings, including this years Under The Water (Libra, 2009) with pianist Satoko Fujii. In this interview, Melford talks about her early contact with Leroy Jenkins, Henry Threadgill and other AACM musicians; her pursuit of an individual voice; and the role that her meditation ...


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