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News: Event

45 Years of ESP!

November 8th, 2009 2 - 9:30pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker) F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker 212-614-0505 $20-100 sliding scale 100% of door proceeds go directly to the Jazz Foundation Jazz Foundation Performance Schedule: 2:00pm

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Contemporary Ragtime Guitar

Read "Contemporary Ragtime Guitar" reviewed by David Rickert


Most people's knowledge of ragtime doesn't go past a few classic Scott Joplin compositions, and practitioners of the style today (not to mention composers) are few and far between. However, there has always been a small cadre of guitarists devoted to playing traditional and original ragtime tunes, and most of them are quite good at adapting ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Hur! Hommage a la Musique de Christian Vander

Read "Hur! Hommage a la Musique de Christian Vander" reviewed by John Kelman


When French drummer/composer Christian Vander put together the first incarnation of his since-enduring group Magma, releasing Kobaïa (Seventh Records) in 1970, it's unlikely that he'd have known the musical subculture he was spawning. A unique blend of fusion, neoclassicism, symphonic, and progressive rock, heavily reliant on relentless repetition and chanting in Vander's created Kobaïan language, Zeuhl ...

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Various Artists: Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae

Read "Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae" reviewed by Chris May


The lovingly conceived, brilliantly executed, multi-platform Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae aims to achieve the same sort of museum piece-to-modernity transformation for Jamaican rocksteady that Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit, 1996) created for Cuban music of an earlier era. As with Buena Vista, there's a CD, a movie and a package tour. The CD features ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Various Artists: Love Train - The Sound Of Philadelphia

Read "Various Artists: Love Train - The Sound Of Philadelphia" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Various ArtistsLove Train--The Sound of PhiladelphiaLegacy/Philadelphia International Records2008 Love Train, 71 songs sprawled across four CDs, brings together a mass of music that has already been anthologized in a variety of forms over the years, though not as exhaustively or attractively. The package accomplishes two things. First, it ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Creative Outlaws: UK Underground 1965-71

Read "Creative Outlaws: UK Underground 1965-71" reviewed by Nic Jones


Although the title might be a little misleading--there are enough acts here with eyes on the financial prize, as opposed to the wholesale reconstruction of society after all--this is still a compilation that encapsulates a vibrant and diverse moment in the history of popular culture and indeed British social history. The underground, through the prism of ...

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News: Recording

Paying Hommage A Nesuhi

Paying Hommage A Nesuhi

Rhino Presents a Digital Boxed Set Honoring The Roster of Iconic Jazz Artists Nesuhi Ertegun Assembled at Atlantic Records Joel Dorn's Final Production Features Music from The Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Eddie Harris and More Available June 23, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- In 1955, Nesuhi ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Mahavishnu Redefined: A Tribute to John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra

Read "Mahavishnu Redefined: A Tribute to John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra" reviewed by John Kelman


With guitar icon John McLaughlin's greater visibility, thanks to recent tours with his 4th Dimension group and Five Peace Band collaboration with pianist Chick Corea, there's been a flurry of reassessment of his vast and vital output as a repertory source. Drummer Gregg Bendian's Mahavishnu Project delivered first-time performances with Return to the Emerald Beyond (Cuneiform, ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Anthology of Swing Strings (1930s-1950s): Professor Visits Harlem or Swingin

Read "Anthology of Swing Strings (1930s-1950s):  Professor Visits Harlem or Swingin" reviewed by Andrew Velez


The strings go zing-zinging on Professor Visits Harlem. Quite unlike any other anthology you're likely to have run into of late, we're treated to three decades of jazz string ensembles, starting off “Two Violins One Siday," a group whose 1931 take on “Dinah" is very finah. It was not until the '30s that ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Pirouet Jazz Compilation Vol. I: The Best Is Yet to Come

Read "Pirouet Jazz Compilation Vol. I: The Best Is Yet to Come" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


One good way to kick start a jazz collection for the beginner is to explore a compilation--if not the best of a particular artist, then perhaps the varied selections of multiple artists assigned to a label. In this effort, Pirouet Records' Pirouet Jazz Compilation Vol. I: The Best Is Yet to Come brings together 11 songs ...


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