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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Richard Twardzik, the rather haunted-looking pianist who was a mainstay of the Boston jazz scene in the early 1950s, recorded only once as a leader before dying at the age of 24 during a European tour with Chet Baker. His quirky, fluid style, influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum and sprinkled w...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Pianist Frank Kimbrough, who is very active in the Maria Schneider Orchestra and his own projects like the Jazz Composers Collective and the Herbie Nichols Project, relates in the notes to his intensely personal and introspective solo album, Air, that one of his first gigs in New York City was a solo gig on Bleecker Street in Greenwich village from 1985 through to 1990...
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wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Finally, after all the excitement and exhaustion – back to the music. So we beat on, boats against the current... whatever... The Clusone Trio give the Herbie Nichols tune, '117th Street,' an outing. Always an element of drollery lurking when Bennink is involved – those crazy Dutch, eh? This swings in lightly over crisp old-school drumming as Moore states the theme and take the first solo – a limpid...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Pianist and composer Herbie Nichols (January 3, 1919 - April 12, 1963) is perhaps most famous for being virtually unknown in his lifetime, and remaining so to a great extent even to this day. His music is usually linked stylistically with Thelonious Monk, whom he knew and admired, because of its wry humor, which hides surprising harmonies and construction belying a deep intelligence showing more of...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
Few musicians possess anything like the lyrical capacity of Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow, whether as composers or performers and this album of duets recorded in 1995 achieves an ideal of empathy. With the compositions roughly divided between the two, therea(TM)s as much emphasis on the construction of durable melodic material as spontaneous interaction...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
You can download five straight days of Creative Nation Music releases starting today with the The Blueprint Project's "Herbie Nichols". Look for tracks from Industrious Noise, Rebecca Shrimpton, Eric Hofbauer, and one more from The Blueprint Project throughout this week...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone) and Roswell Rudd (trombone) had a long and illustrious musical history together dating back to the 1950s playing in Dixieland ensembles. By the early 1960s, they were committed modernists and formed a quartet devoted (mostly) to the music of Monk; School Days, a 1963 live date released twelve years later on hatOLOGY was the only recorded evidence of this band. In the...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/29/2007
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet Early And Late Cuneiform Records 2007 You're off to a good start when a band is headed by two of the most distinctive musicians ever to grace our music, and this two-disc set proves that in abundance. It proves also that both saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd had a fascination for the music of Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols that lasted for decades....
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Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/14/2007
Vote in the Downbeat Reader's Poll online . Howard Mandel has an excellent article about Maria Schneider on his blog : "Schneider glowed when she talked about what she heard in her mind, thinking of how all the atomized notes she'd laboriously written over the past three years had cohered as richly harmonized dynamic music, anticipating that what she'd planned for individuals and small groupings would...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/13/2007
In the shrinking world of aoelegendarya jazz performers, all star sessions and one-offs are the norm. This release is a rare treat that gives a real look-see at saxophonist Charles Davis in the context of his working band. Davis, with his bari sax, was part of the seminal Jazz Composera(TM)s Orchestra and early groups fronted by Sun Ra. Among a host of other top-flight ensembles, he also anchored...
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