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Article: Live From New York

November 2009

by AAJ Staff
November 8, 2009

Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred AndersonCommunity Church of New YorkNew York, NY October 16, 2009Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred Anderson are not quite of the same island. The same Chicago archipelago, sure, but Anderson has more hovered around than been an active member of the Association for the Advancement of ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joelle Leandre: Duos with William Parker and George Lewis

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 24, 2009

French double bassist Joelle Leandre needs no introduction. She has gained a legendary status as one of the best free improvisors of recent decades, always ready for new challenges and opportunities to perfect her art. These two arresting recordings, both totally improvised, with close comrades double bassist William Parker and trombone player George Lewis, offer two ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

David S. Ware Quartet: Live in Vilnius

by Clifford Allen
October 19, 2009

David S. Ware Live in Vilnius No Business 2009 The year 2009 could be a rather big year for tenor saxophonist and improvising composer David S. Ware, and that's saying a lot. After all, Ware has long been one of the most celebrated figures in free jazz, owing not only ...

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Article: Album Review

David S. Ware: Shakti

by Russ Musto
October 15, 2009

David S. Ware's Shakti, his first release since the dissolution of his longstanding quartet, is an outstanding addition to the saxophonist's already extraordinary discography. Ware is reunited with bassist William Parker (a member of the earlier quartet, who goes back to Ware's very first recordings as a leader), with veteran Warren Smith seated in the drum ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

William Parker: Live at the Sunset, In Transition, Live at Dunois, Double Sunrise over Neptune

by Clifford Allen
October 3, 2009

Other Dimensions in Music Live at the Sunset Marge Records 2008 Collective 4tet In Transition Leo Records 2009 Joelle Leandre & William Parker Live at Dunois Leo Records ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
August 17, 2009

Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...

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Article: Live Review

Suoni Per Il Popolo 2009

by Mathieu Belanger
August 9, 2009

Suoni Per Il Popolo FestivalMontreal, CanadaJune 2009For the ninth time since 2001, the whole month of June in Montreal was the affair of the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival. In past years, it would take place at Casa del Popolo and La Sala Rossa, a logical choice since the festival is the brainchild ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Tim Berne: The Subliminal Explorations of a Creative Mind

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
August 5, 2009

Fascinated by unconventional and complex ideas, saxophonist and composer Tim Berne has become a creative force, exploring all the possibilities in sound through his fearless and brilliant imagination. Lloyd Peterson: You didn't start playing the sax until you were about twenty. That would take quite a bit of confidence.Tim Berne: I didn't ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Improvisation from Barcelona: Agusti Fernandez and Octante

by John Eyles
August 3, 2009

Albums by pianist Agusti Fernandez and the group Octante (as well as the concurrent release of Barcelona Chronicles by guitarist Derek Bailey) provide a timely opportunity to celebrate the dynamic improvised music scene of Barcelona, Spain. The profile of the city's improvisers has steadily grown in recent years, not least because of the work of IBA ...

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Article: Interview

George Wein: Back to Doing His Thing

by R.J. DeLuke
July 20, 2009

Not many people stand in shoes similar to the ones in which jazz impresario George Wein now finds himself. Having invented the jazz festival more than half a century ago, his name is synonymous with the Newport Jazz Festival, his first and most well-known child of that genus. He led a company that expanded on the ...