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Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd and The Marvels: I Long to See You

Read "I Long to See You" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Rather than easing off since turning seventy in 2008, Charles Lloyd has instead upped the ante, producing some of the finest music of his career. Whatever spiritual quest Lloyd is on, it continues to spur the veteran saxophonist to heady musical heights and I Long to See You (Blue Note, 2016) is no exception. Lloyd's well-established ...

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Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Freddie Redd: Music from The Connection – 1960

Read "Freddie Redd: Music from The Connection – 1960" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis

What sweet music from what sounds like a perfectly harrowing stage play! Freddie Redd is one of those long-forgotten names in Blue Note history. He was a pianist in the bebop tradition of Bud Powell, with a tinge of Thelonious Monk. He recorded exactly two albums as a Blue Note leader, a few more ...

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Article: Live Review

Abdullah Ibrahim at The National Concert Hall, Dublin

Read "Abdullah Ibrahim at The National Concert Hall, Dublin" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Abdullah Ibrahim National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland March 4, 2016 South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is showing few signs of a diminished appetite for the road, despite turning eighty one this past November. A short UK tour precedes a string of US dates and there are already gigs in ...

Article: Album Review

Renato Strukelj: Giammai

Read "Giammai" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza

Omaggio alla musica e allo stile del sassofonista romano Maurizio Giammarco, Giammai -ultimo disco a nome del pianista friulano Renato Strukelj -è il risultato di una serie di confluenze e parallelismi stilistici convergenti. Di apprezzabile spessore mainstream, il disco concilia ciò che apparentemente risulterebbe inconciliabile: Fryderyk Chopin con Thelonious Monk e Charles Mingus ("Choponkus"), il cool ...

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Article: Album Review

Atlantico: En Rouge

Read "En Rouge" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Atlantico is a new band co-lead by French jazz pianist Sébastien Paindestre and U.S. reed and woodwind player Dave Schroeder (each contributes four compositions). Paindestre and Schroeder met in NYU Paris in 2012 during recording for the TV show “jazz rendez-vous" where they played together for the first time. In 2014 they reconvened in New York ...

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Article: Album Review

Cecil Taylor: Garden 2nd Set

Read "Garden 2nd Set" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Years after this 1981 performance at a Swiss venue, pianist Cecil Taylor advised producer Werner X Uehlinger that this was his best solo concert, as the 2nd Set chronicles the order of performance and follows up the 2015 reissue of Garden 1st Set (hatOLOGY, 2015). And to cite the often-used movie critic adjective, this concert was ...

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Article: Album Review

Larry Young: In Paris: The ORTF Recordings

Read "In Paris: The ORTF Recordings" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

You may know organist Larry Young from his work in The Tony Williams Lifetime band (with John McLaughlin) and later with Jimi Hendrix, and Carlos Santana or you may just be hip to his Blue Note 1960's years. Nonetheless, you would certainly be surprised to learn that he lived to be just 38 years old, passing ...

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Article: Album Review

Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior: We Two

Read "We Two" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Long-time friends and two of South Florida's most enduring and favorite performers for a decade and more, vocalist Wendy Pedersen and pianist Jim Gasior present a session of light vocal jazz on We Two, their first solo album together offering new interpretations of the music from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, the ...

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Article: Album Review

Terry Adams: Talk Thelonious: NRBQ + Terry Adams plays Terry Adams Arrangements of Thelonious Monk Songs

Read "Talk Thelonious: NRBQ + Terry Adams plays Terry Adams Arrangements of Thelonious Monk Songs" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Thelonious Monk's music has been more misunderstood and misinterpreted than most composers.' How you play Monk's music is just as important as what you play, and what you don't play is often just as important as what you do. “The first Monk song I heard was when I was about 14--it was 'Off Minor' ...

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Article: Album Review

Joseph Howell: Time Made to Swing

Read "Time Made to Swing" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Ace clarinetist Dr. Joseph D. Howell dedicated this CD to the late Buddy DeFranco, king of bebop clarinet. In addition to being a role model as a player, his recordings with accordionist Tommy Gumina inspired Howell's collaboration with Cory Pesaturo, accordionist on this album. The accordion has found its way onto a number of jazz recordings ...


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