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News: Interview

Trumpeter Cindy Bradley Interviewed at AAJ

May 20, 2009

Cindy Bradley first picked up the trumpet in the fourth grade and hasn't put it down since. She learned the importance of professionalism early on, playing at the age of 12 in a Buffalo area jazz band. Bradley would go on to earn a bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies from Ithaca College and a Master's degree ...

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Article: Interview

Cindy Bradley: Ready to Bloom

by Jeff Winbush
May 20, 2009

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Article: Album Review

Frank Carlberg: The American Dream

Read "The American Dream" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 1, 2009

The poetry of Robert Creeley (1926-2005) has been arranged a few times in jazz settings and acknowledges the music's strong influence on his work. The late saxophonist Steve Lacy arranged the introspective and laconic verses of Creeley into an almost operatic setting in Futurities (Hat Hut, 1985) and later on The Beat Suite (Universal, 2003). In ...

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Article: Album Review

Michel Edelin Trio: Kuntu

by John Sharpe
March 29, 2009

Perennially unfashionable and plagued by perceptions of insufficient heft and timbral variation, it's not surprising that flute-based trios are rarer than an apologetic banker. Not that this troubles the Paris-based RogueArt label, as straight after the Indigo Trio's Anaya (2009) comes another, this time under the direction of flautist Michel Edelin. Past associations for the Frenchman ...

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Article: Album Review

Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet: Furioso

by John Sharpe
March 11, 2009

Irrespective of the connections, the soprano saxophone clarion call opening Furioso immediately evokes the ghost of Steve Lacy. The debut disc from Swiss soprano saxophonist Jurg Wickihalder's Overseas quartet might be better titled Vivacissimo, such is the joy and vitality which springs out from every digital pit and pore. Though it was at Boston's ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Lacy: The Forest and the Zoo

Read "The Forest and the Zoo" reviewed by Henry Smith

by Henry Smith
March 10, 2009

Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's impressive career was filled with many benchmarks, but 1966's The Forest and the Zoo is surely one of his strongest. Having corrected the erroneous phasing on the original release of the album, this reissue sees the two side-long quartet works sounding better than ever. Playing no small part ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2009

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2009

Helen Sung and Ron CarterHelen Sung and Ron CarterRubin MuseumNew York City February 6, 2009To hear pianist Helen Sung and bassist Ron Carter in a duo setting at the Rubin Museum (Feb. 6th), in a small theater with no amplification, will surely rank as one of this year's ...

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Article: Album Review

Anthony Braxton / Kyle Brenders: Toronto (duets) 2007

Read "Toronto (duets) 2007" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 24, 2009

Want more Anthony Braxton Ghost Trance Music (GTM)? Yes please. Following recent releases of 12+1tet's 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12, 2007), Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 (Rastascan, 2008) and Quartet (GTM) 2006 (Important, 2008), this two-disc outing of GTM is paired down to simply (is anything ever simple with Braxton?) saxophone duets. Fans of Braxton and ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 2, 2009

He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

by Clifford Allen
January 19, 2009

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...