Synergy is critical to the success of any band, yet Conference Call has developed the art of interaction into a fine science. Gebhard Ullmann, Michael Jefry Stevens, Joe Fonda, and Matt Wilson have been playing together for a number of years, which helps explain why their music congeals unerringly into a solidified whole. Everybody is a ...

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Judi Silvano/Mal Waldron: Riding a Zephyr

Read "Riding a Zephyr" reviewed by Riel Lazarus

by Riel Lazarus
April 16, 2003

The mood at Judi Silvano's recent Birdland engagement was decidedly bittersweet. She was there to promote a new duo CD with Mal Waldron entitled Riding A Zephyr, but the legendary pianist's unexpected passing last December transformed the proceedings from what had originally been intended as a celebration of their work together into a moving tribute to ...

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Paul Flaherty: Voices

by Farrell Lowe
March 24, 2003

Voices is an album of solo saxophone music freely improvised in the studio by Paul Flaherty. He's been at it since the '70s and has become an underground champion of chasing the Eternal Now. The subject of these sonic musings is freedom--freedom from the constraints of traditional harmonic, melodic, and compositional forms--freedom to go, baby, go ...

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Greg Burk Trio: Checking In

Read "Checking In" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 2, 2003

Pianist Greg Burk's debut on the Italian Soul Note label, Checking In, might have been better suited with the title Checking Out, as in “I've been checking out different approaches to the jazz piano trio." The disc displays the Berklee educator's multiple voices, beginning with his fundamentally stable sound. Joining Burk are drumming legend ...

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Tiananmen!

By Jon Jang

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Introduction 2. Tears from the Heavenly Gate 3. Great Wall/Gold Mountain 4. I Feel the Thunder in My Heart 5. Come Sunday, June 4 1989 6. Fifth Modernization 7. Butterfly

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