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John Tchicai: Four Ways

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by Robert Iannapollo

New York Art Quartet Old Stuff Cuneiform 2010 John Tchicai's Five Points One Long Minute Nu Bop 2010 John Tchicai In Monk's Mood Steeplechase 2009

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Article: Album Review

Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come

Read "Someday My Prince Will Come" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

Music from Disney films and cartoons has often drifted into jazz thanks to its rich harmonies and evergreen quality, but it is not every day that a vocalist makes an entire CD with personal renditions of these popular tunes. Such is the case of Alexis Cole's Someday My Prince Will Come, which features a ...

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Article: Live Review

Alex Chilowicz at William Paterson University

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by David A. Orthmann

Alex Chilowicz William Paterson University Wayne, NJ December 9, 2009 Saxophonist Alex Chilowicz is a 22-year-old senior in the Jazz Studies program at William Paterson University. To fulfill an honors thesis requirement, Chilowicz embarked on an unusually ambitious project--the performance of Eddie Sauter's Focus. A seven-part composition for string ...

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Article: Live From New York

December 2009

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by AAJ Staff

Jesse Stacken and Kurt KnuffkeCornelia Street CafeNew York, NY November 8, 2009When pianist Jesse Stacken and trumpeter Kirk Knuffke played Cornelia Street Café (Nov. 8th) to celebrate their SteepleChase duo release Mockingbird, they surveyed not only Monk and Ellington tunes--the album's focus--but also demanding works by Lennie Tristano and Charles ...

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Article: Profile

Remembering Scott Sherwood

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by Peter Cobb

What does one possibly say when a treasure is ripped from our lives? What can you say? The jazz world lost a great light recently with the passing of guitarist, composer and educator Scott Sherwood. The rest of the world lost an even greater human being.I don't know what the proper measure of a ...

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Article: Album Review

Drori Mondlak: Point In Time

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by Elliott Simon

Good drummers always seem to make all the right connections and Point In Time indicates that leader Drori Mondlak is, indeed, very well connected. He has brought together three marvelous instrumentalists and leaders in their own right--altoist/flutist Karolina Strassmayer, guitarist Cary DeNigris and bassist Steve LaSpina--for an intriguing quartet that strikes a perfect balance between the ...

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Article: Live Review

Randy Brecker Quintet Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" at the Kimmel Center

Read "Randy Brecker Quintet Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" at the Kimmel Center" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Randy BreckerPerelman TheaterThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 7, 2009 Around the time that Miles Davis was recording the iconic album Kind of Blue in 1959, a kid from Philadelphia named Randy Brecker was learning to play trumpet, and not long after that, he entered the firmament ...

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Play Room

By Steve LaSpina

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Play Room; Do the Math; Suite: it's Just Crazy--it Never Ends--That Explains It; Melissa; On the Run; Ashcroft Avenue; Just Because.

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Steve LaSpina: Play Room

Read "Play Room" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes

Juggling a whirlwind schedule as a musician, father and student means that bassist Steve LaSpina is always in constant motion. Play Room is a selection of original compositions that comment on the recent state of affairs in his life. The music is lively, contemplative, playful and always involving. The title cut serves as ...

Album

Remember When

By Steve LaSpina

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Madness/ A Better Place/ Forward Motion/ Remember When/ When There


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