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Chris Speed, Chris Cheek, Stephane Furic Leibovici: Three Kinds of Folks (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music September 13, 08If you can imagine taking the most furious passages from Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi crossed with some of Evan Parke...
Human Feel: Cat Heaven (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music March 11, 09Human Feel is a freely improvised jazz quartet with a cult-hero status, and although you might not have heard of the ...
Dave Douglas: Spring Ahead (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 19, 09Douglas recorded three "tribute" CDs in the '90's, to Booker Little (In Our Lifetime), Wayne Shorter (Stargazer), and...
Cuong Vu: Accelerated Thoughts (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 28, 08Cuong Vu delights in contrasts, and builds his compositions by juxtaposing rather than blending. "Accelerated Though...
Ornette Coleman: Spelling the Alphabet (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music November 06, 07Ornette Coleman has worked with a handful of guitarists during his career, including Jim Hall, Bern Nix, Charlie Elle...
Medeski Martin & Wood: Bubblehouse (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 15, 09"Bubblehouse" is built on a very simple blues riff progression. We know that Medeski Martin & Wood are not going to l...
Dave Douglas: Soul on Soul (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 28, 08Dave Douglas recorded three critically acclaimed tributes in the 1990's, to Booker Little (In Our Lifetime), Wayne Sh...
Berne, Tim (Bruce Timothy) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09Alto and baritone saxophonist Tim Berne combines influences from avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, rhythm 'n'...
Perowsky, Ben posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Perowsky, Ben, drummer, percussion, electronics; b. New York City, NY, 12 May 1966. His father is saxophonist/clarine...
Rover, Christian posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rover, Christian, (also spelled Roever or, correctly in German, Rover), guitarist, composer, educator, author; ...
Dresser, Mark posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Dresser, Mark, bass; b. Los Angeles, CA, 26 September 1952. His mother is Norine Dresser (b. 1931) and his father is ...
McAll, Barney (Barnaby Johnathon) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07McAll, Barney (Barnaby Johnathon), pianist; b. Melbourne, Australian, 1966. His father, Jack McAll, was born in South...
Helias, Mark posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Helias, Mark, double bass, bass guitar, piano, composer; b. New Brunswick, NJ, 1 October 1950. He received a Bachelor...
Karrin Allyson: All You Need To Say (Never Say Yes) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07Imagine Einstein theorizing on jazz: “Physics/Jazz constitutes a logical system of thought which is in a state of evo...
Dianne Reeves: Love for Sale (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 29, 08On this live track the interaction between Dianne Reeves and her rhythm section is tremendous. They shift speed witho...
Uri Caine & Don Byron in Sardinia posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 24, 08Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, concludes his coverage of on an unusual jazz festival ...
Ede Wright: Shangrila (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 14, 09Sometimes I don't have all the information needed to fill out the jazz.com template for a new review. In the case of ...
Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille: Exotique (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 21, 09The shortest of the three tracks that make up the album Burnt Offerings, "Exotique" still clocks in at almost ten min...
Evan Parker: Breath and Heartbeat 3 (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music May 06, 09Evan Parker is probably the most influential out of a group of superb British soprano saxophonists (which also incl...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX
Soprano Sax and Piano Fab...
Cecil Taylor: Idut (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music May 28, 09This nearly 15-minute-long track is performed by the Unit featuring longtime Taylor confrere Jimmy Lyons on alto sa...
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