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Article: Extended Analysis

McCormack & Yarde Duo: Places And Other Spaces

by Chris May
September 28, 2011

McCormack & Yarde DuoPlaces And Other SpacesEdition2011 This arresting disc, the second from pianist Andrew McCormack and saxophonist Jason Yarde, is just the thing to brighten up a chilly autumn: warm, glowing and packed with great tunes--only one of which, George Gershwin's “Embraceable You," is a standard. ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Tim Richards

by AAJ Staff
July 19, 2011

Meet Tim Richards: Tim's first encounter with a piano was at the age of eight, in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he taught himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, after seeing Thelonious Monk on TV.Since forming the long-lived modern jazz quartet Spirit Level in Bristol in ...

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Article: Album Review

Jamaaladeen Tacuma: For the Love of Ornette

Read "For the Love of Ornette" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 7, 2011

This is almost too good to be true: an “almost" Ornette Coleman album, blowing in out of the blue. Coleman isn't the leader on the set, but he's here, sounding as strong and true as ever. Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma joined the alto saxophonist/free jazz pioneer's electric Prime Time Group in the mid-'70s, contributing to ...

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 17 - Dele Sosimi: Identity

by Chris May
February 6, 2011

Dele SosimiIdentityHelico Records2007 Keyboard player and singer Dele Sosimi, a member of Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 from 1979-86 and Femi Kuti's Positive Force from 1986-94, returned to London, where he was born in 1963, in 1995. A decade and a half later, he leads three bands in ...

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Part 16 - Dele Sosimi: Turbulent Times

by Chris May
January 21, 2011

Dele SosimiTurbulent TimesEko Star2002 Whatever you may think of musicals, and most people either love them or hate them, the New York and London productions of Fela! are to be welcomed. Both have been distinguished as much by their house bands as by their leading actors and ...

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The Silent Truth

By Tony Kofi

Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Giants; Dante; Cicada; First Breath; If I Spoke My Mind; Oont; Unremoved; Inner Truth; Disharmony; Bishop's Move.

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Tony Kofi Quartet: The Silent Truth

Read "The Silent Truth" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
March 29, 2008

Saxophonist Tony Kofi is that increasingly rare thing on the British jazz scene, a player who didn't spend three years “learning" the music at an academic institution, but who discovered it, and developed his gift for it, mostly on the bandstand. True, Kofi did once spend a year at Berklee College of Music on a full ...

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Meeting Ground

By Byron Wallen

Label: Twilight Jaguar
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spirit of Bilal; Captive Caravan; Sailor of the Sands; Initiation; Freedom Struggle; Resignation; Zawiya; M'allem; Exaltation; Meeting Ground.

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Future Passed

By Tony Kofi

Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Journey; Suibokuga; Zambia; A Song For Pappa Jack; As We Speak; Blue Pavel; The Eternal Thinker; Jubilation (For Bod); Brotherhood; April The 13th; This Dream Of Mine (For MJ); We Out.

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Tony Kofi: Future Passed

Read "Future Passed" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
May 8, 2006

Though its nuances may not be readily apparent online, the back and front sleeve art for Future Passed, London saxophonist and ex-Tomorrow's Warrior Tony Kofi's second album as leader, is reminiscent of the time-travelling cover of Curtis Counce's 1958 recalibration of hard bop, Exploring The Future. There are no astronauts on Kofi's sleeve, true, but the ...