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Taro Okamoto

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Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Burgundy; Center of Gravity; Hey George; Honeysuckle Rose; Hornin' In; I Cover The Waterfront; Shadow and Act; Smoke Rings; Sweet Emmalina, My Gal; When I Grow Too Old to Dream.

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Article: Album Review

Dwayne Clemons: Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls

Read "Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Copenhagen-based trumpeter Dwayne Clemons is an accomplished musician whose US career trajectory hit a speed bump in the 1990s when he was incarcerated for a narcotics conviction. Fortunately, he caught the attention of pianist and club owner Spike Wilner who encouraged him to come to New York to play. In time, the result was that, in ...

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Article: Album Review

Sam Taylor: My Future Just Passed

Read "My Future Just Passed" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


In jazz, whether right or wrong, instrumentation carries associations. If you put saxophone, trumpet, bass, and drums together, a portion of jazz fans will automatically think of Ornette Coleman before they hear a note; if you bring together clarinet, vibraphone, piano, and drums, many listeners will immediately move toward Benny Goodman; and if you build a ...

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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Taro Okamoto: Too Many Unknown Greats

Read "Taro Okamoto: Too Many Unknown Greats" reviewed by Peter Madsen


New York is full of improvising musicians that spend thousands of hours practicing their instruments and dream of becoming the next Joshua Redman or Joe Lovano. They come by the busloads from all over the world. Many enroll at one of the universities or schools in the area that have a world famous jazz program. They ...


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