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Ortega wins after U.S. takes a page from Chavez
Until the Nicaraguan elections Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been on a losing streak. In Ecuador the populist presidential candidate he backed found himself under attack for his ties with...
The death knell of newspapers sounds premature
The other day during a visit to one of Chicago's leading civic institutions, the conversation turned to the press. Everyone in the room was a member of the 50- or...
A Prayer Before Dawn Pharoah Sanders and…
A Prayer Before Dawn Pharoah Sanders and William Henderson (Evidence). There is a sweetness about some of the cuts on this 1987 recording by tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders that becomes...
Joshua Redman (Warner Bros.)Start with the story….
Joshua Redman (Warner Bros.) Start with the story. Son of tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, Joshua went to Harvard and was on his way to Yale Law School when he got...
The Last Giant John Coltrane (Rhino), Transition…
The Last Giant John Coltrane (Rhino), Transition John Coltrane (Impulse!) If the rest of Rhino's Atlantic Jazz Gallery Series lives up to the first release, we're in for some very...
Criss-Cross Thelonious Monk (Columbia), Live at the…
Criss-Cross Thelonious Monk (Columbia), Live at the Five Spot Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane (Blue Note). The Columbia reissue originally was recorded by Thelonious Monk in 1962 and 1963...
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7, “Antartica”; Fantasia…
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7, "Antartica"; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Indianapolis Symphony; Raymond Leppard, conductor (Koss Classics). Given his fondness for creating musical evocations of bleak, windswept...
Las Cigarras Son Quiza Sordas Jorge Pardo…
Las Cigarras Son Quiza Sordas Jorge Pardo (Milestone). Jorge Pardo plays flute and saxophone in a lusty, exciting hybrid of jazz and flamenco. Remarkably, neither element seems misplaced or grafted...
Synopsis Robert Towers (Concord).The photo on the…
Synopsis Robert Towers (Concord). The photo on the front of this new recording shows trombonist Robert Towers with his horn and a stack of books by and about the jazz...