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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Every time she plays, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto seeks to paint an aural picture. Redwoods, Yamamoto's fifth release with her long standing trio (though the first on Aum Fidelity), constitutes an inviting and engaging gallery. It follows hot on the heels of her warmly acclaimed series of duets, Duologue (2008), and her soulful contribution to William Parker's outstanding Cornmeal Dance (2007), both...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
If Yamamoto feels she has to make up for lost time working as an improvising pianist she's going the right way about it. This is her second Aum Fidelity release in 2008 and here her working trio gets the chance to set out its stall. The group grasps the opportunity with both hands and clutches it to its collective breast. Yamamoto and her cohorts seem to instinctively know the value of understatement....
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Arts for Art, Inc., in cooperation with AUM Fidelity, is pleased to announce the August 12th release of bassist/composer William Parker's new orchestral recording, Double Sunrise Over Neptune (AUM047), the third in a three-part series documenting the world premiere performances of specially commissioned works at the 12th annual Vision Festival in June 2007. This series, which also includes The Roy...
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Lerterland (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York , August 2008: Jamie Baum Sextet , Solace (Sunnyside) Bill Dixon , 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity) Jimmy Greene , The Overcomer’s Suite (Nujazz) Anne Mette Iversen , Best of the West/Many Places (BJU) Andy Middleton , The European Quartet Live (Q-rious Music) Jeremy Pelt , November (MaxJazz)
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
On October 14th, AUM Fidelity will release the William Parker Quartet's new album, Petit Oiseau (AUM050), the group's second studio effort and third release overall. Named after Little Bird (or Petit Oiseau in French), a character from one of bassist/composer William Parker's tone poems, this recording features eight original compositions, including works dedicated to musicians Malachi Favors, Alan...
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Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
CONTOUR THREE The Bill Dixon Orchestra 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur AUM Fidelity : 2008 Bill Dixon, trumpet/composer; Graham Haynes, cornet/flugelhorn; Stephen Haynes, cornet/flugelhorn; Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet/flugelhorn; Dick Griffin, tenor trombone; Steve Swell, tenor trombone; Joseph Daley, tuba; Karen Borca, bassoon; Will Connell, bass clarinet; Michel Côté, Bb contrabass clarinet;...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Let's agree that pianist Eri Yamamoto's days of being described as a talent deserving wider recognition are now over. With Duologue, she now takes her rightful place as a headliner and leader. This release for AUM Fidelity is one of two discs coming in 2008. Redwoods, a trio disc, will follow this session of duets with fellow New Yorkers. She has already made some impressive sessions and has been featured...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Spring Heel Jack Songs and Themes Thirsty Ear 2008 Roy Campbell Akhenaten Suite AUM Fidelity 2008 Trumpeter Roy Campbell is presented here in two starkly different contexts yet his playing greatly enhances both. His work on Spring Heel Jack's Songs and Themes is meditatively translucent, subtle timbral shifts placing each note inside whatever context John Coxon and Ashley Wales provide. The first two...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
BROOKLYN, NY -- AUM Fidelity is pleased to announce it has secured the services of Improvised Communications to promote its 2008 releases to press and radio. In addition to three new recordings (from Roy Campbell, Bill Dixon and William Parker, respectively) being released in partnership with Arts for Arts, Inc., this collaboration will also include the promotion of forthcoming CDs by the William Parker...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
After its successful premier at the 2006 Vision Festival, alto saxophonist Rob Brown took his newest ensemble into the studio to record Crown Trunk Root Funk, his first recording as a leader for AUM Fidelity. A formidable blend of funky abstraction, angular post-bop and dark impressionism, it offers an expansive view of Brown's adventurous aesthetic...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/18/2007
Like many local legends around the country, Kidd Jordan is an immensely talented musician who resisted the urge to move to New York or LA. Based in Baton Rouge/New Orleans, Jordan became a renowned jazz educator with a long tenure at Southern University. So renowned, that his teaching has been documented by 60 Minutes and acknowledged by the French with Knighthood. His resume name checks an embarrassment...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/03/2007
William Parker and Hamid Drake First Communion and Piercing the Veil: Volume 1 Complete Aum Fidelity 2007 William Parker and Hamid Drake Summer Snow: Volume 2 Aum Fidelity 2007 When bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake went into the studio to record as a duo in 2000, they werena(TM)t quite yet established as a rhythm section for the ages (although they had worked together in Peter BrA tzmanna(TM)s...
