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North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk

Read "North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...

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Ralph Lalama Quartet: The Audience

Read "The Audience" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Dexter Gordon achieved a post-bebop tenor saxophone sound that was Somewhere between the sleepy, vibrato-less tone of Lester Young and the falling-off- the-edge wail of John Coltrane. Yonkers native Ralph Lalama comes It is out of this tradition. On his fifth recording as a leader and his first release since 2008's successful Energy Fields (Mighty Quinn), ...

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Take Five With Adam Glasser

Read "Take Five With Adam Glasser" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Adam Glasser:Adam grew up in South Africa influenced by township jazz. He took a UK English Literature degree, started gigging as pianist in Paris 1980, with a semester at Berklee in 1981. He gigged around London '80s/'90s with own trio and commercial gigs, tours with Jimmy Witherspoon, Martha Reeves, and for Manhattan Brothers, ...

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Liam Sillery: Phenomenology

Read "Phenomenology" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

There's a sense of danger and change on Phenomenology, trumpeter Liam Sillery's fourth CD release on OA2 Records. His quintet--trumpet, saxophone, and rhythm section--often sounds as if it's leaning over the edge of a cliff, just a degree or two away from tipping and falling. It hasn't always been this way with Sillery. His debut, Minor ...

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Anders Nilsson´s AORTA Ensemble: Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble

Read "Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Swedish-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist Anders Nilsson unites two of his working ensembles into his dream project. The Swedish, Malmo-based AORTA and the New York-based Fulminate Trio first played together during Kopasetic Productions' KopaFest in Malmo in 2008. Both groups fulfill beautifully Nilsson's vision and create orchestral, open-ended, multidimensional, improvised music that references the great 1970s fusion bands, ...

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Ralph Lalama: The Audience

Read "The Audience" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann

A few choice items from the American Popular Songbook, tunes by Wayne Shorter, Duke Pearson, and Stevie Wonder, plus three brief duo improvisations, all rendered in a recognizable mainstream style by a band that includes two primary soloists and a bass and drums team. On the face of it, Ralph Lalama's second Mighty Quinn release appears ...

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Ralph Lalama: The Audience

Read "The Audience" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts

Tenor saxophonist Ralph Lalama is a respected jazz journeyman probably best known for his more than 25-year tenure with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He's also played and recorded with the Joe Lovano Nonet, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and drummer Joe Morello's group, among others. But he's had relatively few opportunities to record as a leader. ...

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Live In Montreux 1996

Read "Live In Montreux 1996" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton

Wayne ShorterLive at Montreux 1996 Eagle Eye Media2009 Wayne Shorter may look 20 years younger than 76, but he is quite simply one of the last giants, every bit as influential and artistically significant as Sonny Rollins, perhaps second only to John Coltrane when one considers ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Farewell, Sir John

Read "Farewell, Sir John" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Some of us are old enough to remember when Sir John Dankworth was simply Johnny Dankworth, and quite simply one of the finest jazz musicians Great Britain has ever produced. Johnny became Sir John in 2006 when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, nine years after his wife, the marvelous singer Cleo Laine, was made a ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections

Read "Reflections" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer

Kurt Rosenwinkel has a well-earned reputation for aggressive guitar playing that's both rhythmically astute and harmonically exploratory, a talent that he's applied with Mark Turner and Brad Mehldau as well as with hiphop producer Q-Tip. With Reflections, he has reined in his sometimes-divergent impulses for an unusual collection of standards and tunes by Thelonious Monk and ...


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