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Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit
by Mark Corroto
Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...
Gerald Cleaver / William Parker / Craig Taborn: Farmers by Nature
by Ian Patterson
Truly improvised music is, like the depths of the great oceans, a place where few have really ventured, and it remains a largely unexplored world. On Farmers by Nature pianist Craig Taborn, drummer Gerald Cleaver and bassist William Parker are like cartographers of the unknown, diving deep into the world of improvised music. Guided by each ...
Craig Taborn: Rooted
by Ian Patterson
There is no place for fear or doubt in pianist Craig Taborn's playing--such states are banished from a mind that seeks to explore the musical possibilities of each moment with maximum freedom. Taborn's improvisational playing is a continual creation where the journey is the thing, and words like beautiful, ugly and mistake have virtually no meaning. ...
June 2009
by AAJ Staff
Brad MehldauVillage VanguardNew York City May 6, 2009When Brad Mehldau acknowledged the presence of Hank Jones in the audience at the Village Vanguard (May 6th), he recalled being 16 and hearing Jones at Bradley's, an experience that helped set Mehldau on his current path. Although steeped in the intimate jazz ...
Joelle Leandre / William Parker: Live At Dunois
by Glenn Astarita
Eleven years have passed since the estimable duo of Joëlle Leandre and William Parker recorded Contrabasses for this U.K.-based record label. During that time, the two bassists have undertaken numerous projects while stamping their respective and somewhat legendary faculties across a broad path of the improvisational spectrum. Whatever the muse or passion, these artists' musical ingenuity ...
Peloton: Funeral, Circus and other music
by Anthony Shaw
This might be something of a confusing album to track down, going under the same name as a Norwegian jazz quintet, issued on a little-known Finnish label, and featuring a style that is hard to readily classify. However, the big top featured on the cover sets the tone for this broad collection of pieces, as does ...
10th Bray Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
10th Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2009 The small town of Bray in county Wicklow is not the most obvious location for an international jazz festival. Situated twenty kilometers south of the capital Dublin and hugging the coast, it has been battered by the Irish Sea since at least 1300, ...
Right Hemisphere: Right Hemisphere
by Florence Wetzel
In the early '80s, saxophonist Rob Brown and pianist Matthew Shipp played as a duo, eventually forming a quartet with William Parker on bass and Whit Dickey on drums and releasing the CD Points on Silkheart in 1990. Flash-forward to the present, where Joe Morris has taken over the bass chair, and the group has released ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy
by Jeff Stockton
CODONA The CODONA Trilogy ECM Records 2009 Somewhere along the way “world music" became a suspect term. Mixed up with the concept of “new age," it makes you think more about hemp clothing, crystal therapy and holistic healing than the sort of basic elemental sounds trumpeter Don Cherry pioneered in ...
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