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LeeAnn Ledgerwood: Transition
by C. Andrew Hovan
The native of a very small town in Ohio, pianist Lee Ann Ledgerwood is part of an ever growing contingency of extremely talented jazz musicians of the female persuasion, another recent name that comes to mind being trumpeter Ingrid Jensen. Although she's been on the New York scene since 1982, this is one of Ledgerwood's rare ...
Larry Schneider: Ali Girl
by C. Andrew Hovan
Part of a ever-growing number of jazz artists who fall into a category that can be generally referred to as the “lost generation," for lack of a better phrase, 47- year-old saxophonist Larry Schneider is too old to be considered a young lion and not old enough yet to be properly referred to as an “elder ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free Jazz and Avant-garde were the same evolutionary answer to Bebop that Bebop was to Swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre’s harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman’s (pre- Free Jazz ) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. ...
Lee Konitz/Ted Brown: Dig-It
by Mark Corroto
Lee Konitz and Ted Brown have lived many lives since they played together as students and sidemen of pianist Lennie Tristano more than fifty years ago. Konitz started with Claude Thornhill’s Orchestra before working with Gil Evans and Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool Nonet. His familiar alto saxophone was featured in what many say was ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free jazz and avant-garde styles were the same evolutionary answer to bebop that bebop was to swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre's harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman's (pre-Free Jazz) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. Miles ...
Three of Four
By Harold Danko
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Jitterbug Waltz, Tintiyana, Everybody's Song But My Own, Ruby My Dear, Turn Out the Stars, 502 Blues, Little Niles, Black Fire, Valse Hot, Walk On the Water, Blue in Green (68:27)
All The Way
By Dave Stryker
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: I Got Rhythm, All the Way, All or Nothing at All, God Bless the Child, Dearly Beloved, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, A Lazy Afternoon, The Touch of Your Lips (59:00)
