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If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
-Charles Mingus
"Nows the Time" Andrew Hill Feature Article
Downbeat
March 2006
"[Hill]'s piano playing is intrinsic to his formidable compositions, with can be likened to origami."
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"American Pimp Technicolor Swank Porn Music"
Downbeat
February 2006
"'Shelf Life' brims with salacious hilarity, contagious melodies and first-rate musicianship. It's as smart as it is seditious."
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"Worth Her Salt" Lizz Wright wakes up to a new sound.
JazzTimes
June 2005
"I don't really know what I am, and I love not knowing."
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"Terence Blanchard: Full Flow
JazzWise
June 2005
"I was thinking a lot about our live performances and the type of tunes that we were playing. There was something missing."
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"Jamia Sessions" Meshell Ndegeocello's jazz-spirit music
JazzTimes
May 2005
"Improvisational music has always been something I've gravitated toward."
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"The Blues and the Abstract Truth" Jason Moran
JazzWise
Feb 2005
"When he bubbled to the surface as a name to watch at the tail end of the 1990s, Jason Moran was still a fairly unknown quantity..."
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"Mothership Connection"
Geri Allen lands her first album in six years. Why did it take so long for her to touch down?"
JazzTimes
September 2004
"There's a trace of humility when Allen looks at her previous albums in light of her new disc."
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"Keeping Time" Chico Hamilton's Historic Newport Solo
JVC Jazz Festival 2004 Book
Summer 2004
"It take a whole bunch of things to play music, but only two things to make it: patience and fortitude..."
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"Hearsay" - Pyeng Threadgill & John O' Gallagher
JazzTimes
July /August 2004
"Threadgill... shares her father's gift for recontextualization"
"O'Gallagher's... diamond-hard tone and corksrew improvisations sometimes recall Greg Osby."
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"Hearsay" Jason Lindner
JazzTimes
June 2004
"A lot of times I don't use the piano to translate; I write the rhythmic figures on a piece of paper."
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"The Mallet Cat" Stefon Harris
JazzTimes
May 2004
Stefon Harris' evolutionary Blackout ensemble strives to bring jazz to the masses with its new plugged-in CD...
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"Do Your Own Thing"
The Dune label is the heart of Black British jazz
JazzTimes
March 2004
"...each Dune CD is carefully nurtured, from the exemplary production to the stylish artwork."
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"We Got the Funk"
JVC Jazz Festival 2003 Book
Summer 2003
Call it funky music for funky times but more and more jazz musicians are explicitly putting that back-end bounce into their music.
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"Putting Faces of the Notes" Danilo Perez
JazzTimes
September 2003
"The music has to grow in relationship to your life. You have to be a person, first..."
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