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Muhal Richard Abrams: One for the Whistler (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music August 08, 08Muhal Richard Abrams has been leading large ensembles since 1961, and his orchestral work balances pure experimentali...
Jazz.com is One Year Old Today posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 09, 08Today jazz.com celebrates its first birthday. And what a whirlwind year it has been! A team of more than 50 writer...
Andrew Hill: Monkash (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 19, 07This recording, which adds a string quartet to the conventional tenor-and-trio jazz combo, did not surface in store...
Prince Lasha: Green and Gold (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Prince Lasha was a Forth Worth peer of Ornette Coleman, and Sonny Simmons a Los Angeles partisan; their collaborati...
Charles Mingus: Eulogy for Rudy Williams (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07A tribute to the late saxophonist of the Savoy Sultans, drowned shortly before the session in a summer swimming accid...
Charles Mingus: Celia (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Celia Zaentz was the second wife of Charles Mingus and co-founder, with her husband and Max Roach, of Debut Records, ...
Charles Mingus: Los Mariachis (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Inspired by street musicians in Tijuana, “Los Mariachis” employs a suite-like structure that simulates a walking tour...
Charles Mingus: Self-Portrait in Three Colors (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 22, 07We could spend a lot of time unpacking just the title of this song (originally written for Shadows, the directorial d...
Charles Mingus: Tensions (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music October 22, 07“Moods,” “contrasts” and “changes” are a few words that have taken on elemental significance in Mingus’ song titles, ...
Charles Mingus: Hora Decubitus (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Mingus was at the peak of his powers in 1963. First he set down his long-form masterpiece, The Black Saint and The Si...
Anthony Braxton: For John Cage (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 22, 07In the late ‘60s, Braxton aspired to create a solo language for saxophone akin to that of the piano. His controversia...
Anthony Braxton: Four in One (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Since the mid-'70s, Braxton has periodically recorded “in the tradition,” playing standard repertoire with piano-trio...
Cecil Taylor: Song (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Cecil Taylor’s 1956 debut for the Transition label was indeed a Jazz Advance, but didn’t yet mark the arrival of...
Cecil Taylor: Steps (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 22, 07With the exception of three tracks for Gil Evans’ Into The Hot album, Taylor’s 1966 Blue Note sessions were the piani...
Cecil Taylor: Lazy Afternoon (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 22, 07Philadelphia-born tenor saxophonist Shepp was a newcomer to the band at the time of this recording, Taylor’s first fo...
World Saxophone Quartet: P.O. in Cairo (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 22, 07It’s unclear what the titular “P.O.” is here, maybe just a workaday “post office,” but perhaps a “private organizatio...
World Saxophone Quartet: I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music October 22, 07The W.S.Q. signed with the prestigious Elektra/Nonesuch label in 1986, and shifted their repertoire somewhat, too, co...
George Lewis: Homage to Charles Parker (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 07George Lewis—the wunderkind trombonist, electronic musician and composer from Chicago—was 26 when he premiered “Homag...
Jaki Byard: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 22, 07This recording brings together veterans of three of the most adventurous small groups of the 1960s. Byard had chaired...
John Carter: Dauwhe (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 22, 07John Carter’s masterwork, the five-volume Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, tra...
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