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Tag: Blue Note Records

  • Music and More Reviews

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    From Music and More: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Vijay Iyer Trio – Historicity (ACT Music, 2009) Monday, October 19, 2009 Cecil Taylor – Conquistador (Blue Note 1966, 2003) Sunday, October 18, 2009 E.S.T. – Retrospective (ACT Music, 2009)

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    From All About Jazz: 08-May-09 Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding & Nate Wooley Crackleknob (Hatology) Reviewed by Troy Collins 08-May-09 Lawrence Casserley / Adam Linson Integument (Psi) Reviewed by Glenn Astarita 08-May-09 Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch Records) Reviewed by Mike Perciaccante 07-May-09 John Zorn Filmworks XXIII: El General (Tzadik) Reviewed by Warren Allen 07-May-09…

  • Bagatellen Reviews

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    Image by tom.beetz via Flickr From Bagatellen: Joe Maneri/Peter Dolger – Peace Concert Duets between saxophonists and drummers are an important part of recorded improvisation, a distillation of action to breath and rhythm. The list is long, beginning in recorded jazz with the Sonny Rollins and Philly Jones duo reading of “Surrey with the Fringe…

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    Rashied Ali (via last.fm) From Bagatellen: Giuseppi Logan – Quartet (ESP-Disk’) Until resurfacing with the aid of Brooklyn pastor Dr. Bill Jones, reedman Giuseppi Logan was, like Henry Grimes, one of the lost enigmas of contemporary improvisation. Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1935, Logan studied at the New England Conservatory and worked in a notable…

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    Image via Wikipedia From All About Jazz: Cecil Taylor / William Parker / Masashi Harada CT: The Dance Project (FMP Records) Reviewed by Henry Smith 07-Jan-09 Gianluigi Trovesi All’Opera Profumo Di Violetta (ECM Records) Reviewed by John Kelman 06-Jan-09 CODONA The CODONA Trilogy (ECM Records) Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair 06-Jan-09 Alexander von Schlippenbach Alexander von…