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Article: Extended Analysis

Yo Miles! Revisited: Lightning and Shinjuku

Read "Yo Miles! Revisited: Lightning and Shinjuku" reviewed by John Kelman


Amongst the plethora of tributes to trumpet icon Miles Davis' electric period on Columbia, beginning with 1969's In a Silent Way and ending with 1975's Agharta and Pangaea, only a few stand out as being truly reverential--not just to the electrified energy and jungle funk of the music, but to its undeniably avant leanings as well. ...

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Last Night at Sweet Rhythm

Label: Sound Reason
Released: 2010
Track listing: It Ain't What It Was; The Blues Are Green; Never Again Is Such A Long Time; In Waves of Dreams; A Tribute to a Holiday; The Joneses; Laying It Down.

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Infinity Is

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2010

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Article: Album Review

Miguel Ángel Chastang: From Harlem to Madrid Vol. 2: Sombras

Read "From Harlem to Madrid Vol. 2: Sombras" reviewed by Antonio Álvarez Barthe


Cuando en 1986 decide trasladarse a Nueva York para completar su formación musical bajo la disciplina de Ron Carter, el contrabajista Miguel Ángel Chastang (Madrid, 1952) contaba ya con un currículum respetable, con varios discos a su nombre o como sideman y una amplia experiencia en las salas de concierto y en los festivales españoles y ...

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Muhammad Ali: From a Family of Percussionists

Read "Muhammad Ali: From a Family of Percussionists" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Though not as well known as his brother, drummer Rashied Ali (1935-2009), Muhammad Ali spent the 1970s as one of the busiest drummers in free jazz, primarily working in a cooperative Paris-based quartet with saxophonist Frank Wright, pianist Bobby Few and bassist Alan Silva, and known as the Center of the World Quartet. Born in Philadelphia ...

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Sonny Fortune: Last Night At Sweet Rhythm

Read "Last Night At Sweet Rhythm" reviewed by Chuck Koton


Jellyfish plumes of toxic smoke may no longer hover in the air, but clinking glasses, persistent waiters and the intermittent roaring of drink mixers still conspire to diminish a jazz lover's listening pleasure at a live nightclub performance. Yet, somehow, spontaneous improvisation--the lifeblood of jazz--and the intimate interactions among the musicians and the audience, combine in ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Fortune

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Fortune

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Fortune's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Sonny FortuneWhen critics speak of Sonny Fortune, names like Coltrane, Cannonball, Young, Bechet, Hawkins and Parker are mentioned. Quite a legacy - but well deserved - for Sonny Fortune embodies all of the finest qualities ...

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Take Five With Franck Amsallem

Read "Take Five With Franck Amsallem" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Franck Amsallem: Mickey Mac: Franck Amsallem has been a professional pianist and composer for over 30 years. As a leader he has released seven cds, all of which have received rare critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the great names in jazz: Gerry Mulligan, Charles Lloyd, Gary Bartz, Sonny Fortune, Bobby Watson, ...

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Sonny Fortune: Last Night at Sweet Rhythm

Read "Last Night at Sweet Rhythm" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


A few months ago, in 2009, reedman Sonny Fortune brought his quartet into the late Greenwich Village club to cut his first live recording as a leader. The performance captured on Last Night at Sweet Rhythm shows, as Fortune moves into his seventies, that his playing is as innovative, daring and fiery as ever.

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James Tartaglia's Free Funk Assembly: Dark Metaphysic

Read "Dark Metaphysic" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Thanks, as ever, to Google, it's possible to say with near certainty that British saxophonist James Tartaglia, leader of this electric funk-jazz ensemble, is the same person as Keele University lecturer in philosophy James Tartaglia, which raises an interesting question: what is the link between philosophy and funk?This is not the first time the ...


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