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Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution

Read "Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution" reviewed by John Kelman


Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...

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Article: Album Review

Tohpati Ethnomission: Save The Planet

Read "Save The Planet" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


In the world of guitar-driven jazz fusion, laced with world music, it has typically been a westerner who learns and ensconces themselves in another ethnic culture; processing, packaging, and exporting a digestible product back for listeners to experience. The absorption of jazz, rock, and fusion in Indonesia has produced some exciting results over the years, with ...

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Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: November 8-10, 2010

Read "Enjoy Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: November 8-10, 2010" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyNovember 8-13, 2010 The pitfall of covering a number of festivals back-to-back is there's always the chance that a flight will be delayed, which means a missed train, which means arriving late at the next stop, and rather than having the opportunity to ...

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Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour

Read "Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour" reviewed by John Sharpe


Aki Takase, John Edwards, Tony Levin / Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony LevinThe VortexLondonOctober 11, 2010 When pianist Keith Tippett's young daughter was asked at school what her parents did, she replied: they're mujicians! That conflation of magic and music neatly sums up Tippett's method. Initially the name was ...

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Julie Slick: Julie Slick

Read "Julie Slick" reviewed by John Kelman


Despite a sudden explosion of female bassists--from Aussie Tal Wilkenfeld (Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea) to acoustic bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding (Joe Lovano--assessing them on the basis of gender would be wrong, since every one of them easily stands beside their male counterparts. The same can be said for Julie Slick, still on the shy side ...

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Aki Takase: A Week Went By

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Aki TakaseA Week Went ByPsi Records2010 This is audacious music. In the emerging drama, pianist Aki Takase plays just a ripple away from bassist John Edwards, who is, in turn, a ripple away from percussionist Tony Levin. Each relates to the other through the glacial topography of ...

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Article: Album Review

L'Image (Mainieri/Bernhardt/Spinozza/Levin/Gadd): 2.0

Read "2.0" reviewed by John Kelman


It may seem odd to take nearly 40 years to release a debut, but in the case of L'Image it's definitely a case of never-too-late. A collective formed by vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in the early 1970s, L'Image generated considerable buzz for its live shows before, on the cusp of recording its first album, circumstances forced the ...

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Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars

Read "Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars" reviewed by John Kelman


It's hard to imagine vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in his seventies. Not only does he look and sound like a man 10 years (or more) his junior, but a quick look at the projects he's been involved in over the past few years sound like anything but a septuagenarian resting on his not inconsiderable laurels.

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Lizard (40th Anniversary Series)

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Often forgotten and sometimes maligned, Lizard is a King Crimson classic that's waited to be found for nearly 40 years. When it was first released in 1970, it was quickly overlooked as a transitional album between the group that recorded/released/toured its seminal debut, In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969) and the Crimson ...

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Take Five With Mike Mainieri

Read "Take Five With Mike Mainieri" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Mike Mainieri: Primarily recognized as an award-winning jazz vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri's equally remarkable talents as producer, performer, arranger, and composer have contributed to shaping the cutting edge in music. During '50s and early '60s, he performed with such legendary artists as Buddy Rich, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Wes Montgomery. ...


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