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Article: Interview

Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon

Read "Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon" reviewed by David King


The New York group Reverend Zen has released its debut album, Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon (Blackjack Music, 2006), that is quickly garnering music industry acclaim around the world. Platitudes aside, Reverend Zen's true genius lies in its music. The album is everything a great album should be: melodies that hang in your head like ...

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Article: Album Review

Gary Husband's Drive: Hotwired

Read "Hotwired" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It's a happy state of affairs when a new band gels and the chemistry realizes, as far as is possible, the ambitions and intentions of the leader. Gary Husband must be reasonably delighted with the vibrant horn pairing of experienced saxophonist Julian Siegel and newcomer trumpeter Richard Turner, which brings such thrust and zest to Hotwired. ...

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Article: Interview

Gary Husband: There were these three Yorkshiremen...

Read "Gary Husband: There were these three Yorkshiremen..." reviewed by Ian Patterson


Gary Husband has long cemented his reputation as one of fusion's premier drummers--hell, even Billy Cobham thought two was better than one and hired him as a second drummer. Husband's flexibility has seen him drum in the NDR Big Band, with jazz-funk outfit Level 42, and in a trio format with guitarist Robin Trower and bassist ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Gary Husband's Drive: Hotwired

Read "Gary Husband's Drive: Hotwired" reviewed by John Kelman


Gary Husband's Drive Hotwired Abstract Logix 2009 Keeping one foot in the jazz tradition and the other on a path to where the music not just can go, but must go is a dicey challenge, even for the most forward-thinking. In many respects, it's the musicians who have spread themselves well ...

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News: Video / DVD

Wayne Shorter Live at Montreux 1996 - Available on DVD February 17

Wayne Shorter Live at Montreux 1996 - Available on DVD February 17

On February 17, 2009, Eagle Rock Entertainment, through its Eagle Eye subsidiary, will release Wayne Shorter Live at Montreux 1996 on DVD. This fascinating night captures an American treasure on one of his many stops at the acclaimed jazz festival. Coming up in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1950s, Shorter became an important component of ...

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Jazz Rock (Verve)

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2008

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Tony Williams: Mosaic Select 24

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Foreign Intrigue; My Michele; Life Of The Party; Takin

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Juicy Fruit

Featuring the music of Tony Williams
Duration: 7:46

From a concert at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival: Tony Williams - drums Mulgrew Miller - piano Ira Coleman - bass Don Braden - tenor saxophone Wallace Roney - trumpet
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Article: Album Review

Tony Williams: Tony Williams: Mosaic Select 24

Read "Tony Williams: Mosaic Select 24" reviewed by Matthew Miller


Blue Note president Alfred Lion knew talent when he saw it and in the early 1960s--a time of unparalleled success for his once fledgling label--he signed an astonishingly virtuosic drummer who had recently emerged with Jackie McLean. We all know the story: a mere eighteen years old and Williams was an unstoppable force at the kit. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Soft Machine: Third through Seven Remasters

Read "Soft Machine: Third through Seven Remasters" reviewed by John Kelman


While the merits of remastered reissues are the source of considerable debate, there's no denying that the discography of pioneering British jazz/rock band Soft Machine has been more deserving of attention than most. In the group's fourteen-year existence it shifted gears more often than outfits lasting considerably longer. Beginning in the late 1960s as a psychedelic ...


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