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Article: Live Review

Live From Birmingham: Tom Harrison, Tad Newton, Wynton Marsalis & Monocled Man

Read "Live From Birmingham: Tom Harrison, Tad Newton, Wynton Marsalis & Monocled Man" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Tom Harrison The Bartons Arms June 6, 2014 Some of Tom Harrison's band sidemen are more familiar to seasoned UK jazz fans than the leader himself, but the London saxophonist's film music project will doubtless contribute to improving his own profile. It's the kind of conceptual set-up that is ...

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Article: Album Review

Inside Jazz Quartet: Portraits

Read "Portraits" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Un quartetto paritetico composto da musicisti di esperienza e riconosciuto valore mette in scena brani di alcuni dei più importanti protagonisti del jazz moderno quali sono Steve Swallow e Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk e Carla Bley, per arrivare fino a Yusef Lateef. Non c'è invero nulla di “rivoluzionario," né di particolarmente “innovativo" nell'album, ...

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News: Recording

Chubby Jackson: New York, 1949

Chubby Jackson: New York, 1949

In 1944, bebop was virtually ignored by the country's jazz fans—except those in New York, where the new style had first been recorded earlier that year. Viewed initially as unintelligible gibberish and way too fast for dancing, the new style was too complicated. Few musicians could play it authentically, since too few bebop recordings were on ...

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Article: My Blue Note Obsession

The Amazing Bud Powell, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1503 and 1504

Read "The Amazing Bud Powell, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1503 and 1504" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis

In the pantheon of bebop's Founding Fathers, there are three giants. Everyone knows Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Everyone forgets Bud Powell. Like Bird and Diz, Powell could spit out notes faster than anyone before or since. Also like Bird and Diz, Powell sometimes fell in love with his own speed, so some recordings ...

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Article: Live Review

Chick Corea al Parco della Musica, Roma

Read "Chick Corea al Parco della Musica, Roma" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti

Parco della Musica Roma 10.05.2014 In occasione della recentissima pubblicazione del suo nuovo CD di solo piano, Portraits, il pianista Chick Corea ha intrapreso un tour mondiale che lo ha portato anche dalle nostre parti. Il suo concerto solistico è strutturato analogamente al CD, registrato dal vivo, con una prima ...

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Article: Live Review

Moers Festival 2014

Read "Moers Festival 2014" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

Moers Festival Moers , GermanyJune, 6-9, 2014 Moers is a small city of about 100,000 inhabitants at the periphery of the former mining and industrial Ruhrpott area in Germany, about 40 km from the Dutch border and near the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf. Moers Festival, a four-day annual event always ...

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Article: Album Review

The North: Slow Down (This Isn't the Mainland)

Read "Slow Down (This Isn't the Mainland)" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

When French pianist Romain Collin and Hawaii natives double bassist Shawn Conley and drummer Abe Lagrimas, Jr got together in Honolulu there was no special agenda; just three friends playing a few gigs in a relaxed environment, far from the hurly burly of their adopted cities of Los Angeles and New York. However, a trio chemistry ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Subtext

Read "Subtext" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Change is a fact of life, and it's something that's better to be embraced than challenged; as inevitable as death and taxes, it's one of those things that you may as well accept, because there are few, if any, options to do otherwise. That said, while the then-aptly titled Parting Shot (Tone Center, 2011) suggested that ...

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Article: Album Review

Andreas Dreier Trio: Poinciana

Read "Poinciana" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

There's no doubt when the soft tapping of drums announces a beat as light as lovers dancing through a summer night. This is the signature of one of the greatest cover versions of all time. Or rather, this is the watermark of a cover made into a new composition. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's trio now virtually owns ...

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Article: Album Review

First Take Trio: Recollections

Read "Recollections" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

When Michael Anthony left home in the late 1950s for the bright lights of Hollywood, one of the resident artists who took him under his wing was fellow guitarist Howard Roberts, already established as one of the film and television industry's top studio musicians as well as an esteemed jazz virtuoso whose work with the Chico ...


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