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Article: Album Review

Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful!

Read "Wonderful!" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

When it came time for the SFJAZZ Collective to choose a composer to honor in their eighth season, they surprised a lot of people when they went with the one and only Stevie Wonder. While some likely view this decision as a statement that, after covering Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Rollins: Newk's Time

Read "Newk's Time" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

Possibly the premier US remastering shop, Music Matters continues to reissue Blue Note albums of the 1950s and 1960s on premium 180 gram, 45rpm vinyl. These recordings are at the heart of the jazz canon and should be heard by any serious student of the music. Now, one of the finest performances in the Blue Note ...

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Article: Album Review

Freddie Hubbard: Pinnacle

Read "Pinnacle" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor

Trumpet great Freddie Hubbard, who died in 2008 at age 70, was at his peak in 1980 when Pinnacle was taped. He had recorded with greats, from Wes Montgomery and Art Blakey to John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Oscar Peterson, and led many groups of his own. In his prime, from the sixties ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings 1956-64

Read "Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings 1956-64" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.

The Modern Jazz Quartet The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of The Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-64 Mosaic Records 2011 They were diverse in talent and temperament. John Lewis, the quiet and determined westerner, who told sound stories with his linear and logical blues-based pianisms; Milt “Bags" Jackson, the baggy eyed, Motor ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Rollins: On Impulse / There Will Never Be Another You

Read "On Impulse / There Will Never Be Another You" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

What could be better than an album by Sonny Rollins? Two albums by Sonny Rollins, especially a reissue of two treasured Impulse! releases--On Impulse! (1965) and There Will Never Be Another You (1978)--in their entirety, on a single 75-minute CD. That's a lot of satisfying tenor time with the Saxophone Colossus. On the heels ...

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News: Recording

Sonny Rollins - On Impulse/There Will Never Be Another You (Impulse!, 1965; Verve Re-Issue, 2011)

Sonny Rollins - On Impulse/There Will Never Be Another You (Impulse!, 1965; Verve Re-Issue, 2011)

The great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins only recorded a few albums for the Impulse! label in the mid 1960's, and presented on this compilation is the On Impulse LP, plus a live album from the same year that was previously unreleased (in the U.S. at least.) The On Impulse album is almost a Sonny Rollins sampler ...

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News: Performance / Tour

European Jazz Invasion Tours with New Album: Some Open Dates Still Available

Formally known as “Group A" during the 2008 IASJ Meeting in Riga, Latvia, these wonderful young musicians quickly fused into a special space. Tears were shed, and many people were emotionally moved by their final performance. After a week of challenging, inspiring, and creative work, they realized that it wasn't the end and decided to stick ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Ahmad Jamal's Identity Crisis

Read "Ahmad Jamal's Identity Crisis" reviewed by Fradley Garner

by Fradley Garner

Ahmad Jamal's Identity CrisisAhmad Jamal aterrorist? Surely not the renowned American pianist who's given hundreds of concerts over the last half century. So it was puzzling why the $10,000 that the Festival da Jazz in Moritz, Switzerland ordered paid to Jamal in advance of his July 16 appearance, was promptly frozen by U.S. authorities. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Ferdinand Povel & Pete Christlieb: Live at the Amsterdam Bimhuis

Read "Ferdinand Povel & Pete Christlieb: Live at the Amsterdam Bimhuis" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Ferdinand Povel & Pete Christlieb with the Rein de Graaff TrioLive at the Amsterdam BimhuisTimeless Records2011 Put two of the world's outstanding tenor saxophonists together on the same stage, add a marvelously supple and supportive rhythm section, and what you have is a night to remember and ...

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Article: Album Review

Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian: Live at Birdland

Read "Live at Birdland" reviewed by Kevin Davis

by Kevin Davis

It begins with a conversation between Lee Konitz's airy alto sax and Paul Motian's even more ethereal drums, and instantly the groove of this 1954 Sonny Rollins workhorse, “Oleo," feels comfortable, welcoming, and lived-in. Like much of what transpired on the December, 2009 dates from which ECM culled Live at Birdland, which plays home to this ...


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