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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio: Jump Up

Read "Jump Up" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Renowned Cecil Taylor trio alumni, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and drummer Sunny Murray reunited in Switzerland and summoned young bass wunderkind John Lindberg for a tour de force captured live at Jazz Festival Willisau in August, 1980. Reissued and remastered, this release highlights the band's unbridled energy and resounding clarity, abetted by the crystalline audio. It ...

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Article: Live Review

Dave Burrell: Philadelphia, PA, January 18, 21 and 30, 2012

Read "Dave Burrell: Philadelphia, PA, January 18, 21 and 30, 2012" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Dave BurrellThe Rosenbach Museum & Library and Philadelphia Arts Alliance Philadelphia, PAJanuary 18, 21 and 30, 2012 Dave Burrell is something of a renaissance jazzman. He recorded with drummer Sunny Murray and saxophonist Archie Shepp during the halcyon free jazz days of Paris in the late 1960s, and over the ...

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Tiresias

Label: Porter Records
Released: 2011

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Article: Live Review

Dave Burrell Trio: New York, NY, September 10, 2011

Read "Dave Burrell Trio: New York, NY, September 10, 2011" reviewed by Garrison Fewell


Dave Burrell TrioCrosscurrent 3 Festival Poisson RougeNew York, NYSeptember 10, 2011For its third annual edition, Crosscurrent moved the festival from its home in Botticino, Italy to New York City. Following the sonic delights of the Vision Festival in June, Crosscurrent 3 offered an additional array of creative music ensembles ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Monnette Sudler at the Kennett Flash in Kennett Square, PA on December 7th

Monnette Sudler at the Kennett Flash in Kennett Square, PA on December 7th

Appearing on Wednesday, December 7th at the Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, PA will be guitarist Monnette Sudler and her band featuring pianist Barry Sames, bassist Steve Green, and drummer Leon Jordan. Showtime: 7:30 p.m. One show. Tickets: $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: Call 484-732-8295. About Monnette Sudler Monnette Sudler is a ...

Article: Album Review

Sonic Liberation Front: Sonic Liberation Front meets Sunny Murray

Read "Sonic Liberation Front meets Sunny Murray" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'incontro tra Sunny Murray e Sonic Liberation Front avviene per errore, anzi per un errore. Nel lontano 1985 il grande batterista e alfiere del free jazz cerca di contattare telefonicamente il vibrafonista Khan Jamal ma sbaglia a digitare una cifra. All'altro capo del telefono risponde Kevin Diehl, futuro leader del Sonic Liberation Front. Nasce così un'amicizia ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joe McPhee: A Band Apart

Read "Joe McPhee: A Band Apart" reviewed by Clifford Allen


You might expect a musician who has been a steady figure on the creative improvising scene for nearly 45 years to have some variance in their discography and a diverse range of projects and band concepts. Reedman (and sometime pocket trumpeter) Joe McPhee's vast number of recordings and ensembles speak to that impulse, but the curious ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation

Read "MoonJune Records: A  Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, “Moon In June," ...

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News: Recording

Sunny Murray Meets Sonic Liberation Front on High Two CD

Sunny Murray Meets Sonic Liberation Front on High Two CD

The student of the music we call jazz at some point must come to terms with the impact of the avant-garde from the '60s onwards. Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, later John Coltrane, and the musicians who associated with him brought about a vast infusion of musical vocabulary and ways of speaking into improvisational practice. ...


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