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...Records, a new Virgin Records label specializing in live performances, catch four jazz stylists (Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and Cannonball Adderley) in moods that seldom found their way onto more formal recordings. Kirk, best known for his atonal virtuosity in blowing three saxes at once, plays clarinet with a traditional New Orleans band in a sly, down-home version of The Black and Crazy Blues. And McCann, who prided himself on being as much an entertainer as a pianist, gabs, croons and narrates an off-the-wall encounter with Charlie Parker. Producer Joel Dorn...
...DAVERN: SUMMIT REUNION (Chiaroscuro). Rarely has a musical marriage been so harmonious. Wilber and Davern first teamed up back in the '70s in a highly touted jazz sextet called Soprano Summit. That group is no more, alas, but this studio rematch, featuring Wilber on soprano sax and Davern on clarinet, scales a new peak...
...represent difference without hierarchy. For us to do that, it is really necessary to have a change in language." A former dancer, she reaches for a musical metaphor to suggest how the contrasting voices of men and women might blend. "One can think of the oboe and the clarinet as different," she says. "Yet when they play together, there is a sound that's not either one of them, but it doesn't dissolve the identity of either instrument...
Jazz strikes a resonant chord in the life of senior editor Thomas Sancton, who reported and wrote this week's cover story on trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis. A native of New Orleans, Sancton studied the clarinet with some of the city's veteran musicians and began sitting in on French Quarter jam sessions as a teenager. Since moving to the Big Apple, he has continued to play occasional gigs at local night spots and in the studio. Last month G.H.B. Records released Tom's seventh album, New Orleans Reunion, a collection of traditional blues and standards that he recorded with...
...sections comprising nearly 4,000 bars of music, with a performance time of more than two hours. By jazz standards, the forces required to perform it are almost Mahlerian: a 31-member band with full complements of brass and saxes, plus such normally nonswinging instruments as piccolo and contrabass clarinet. The work was played once in the composer's lifetime, but in a truncated form that left him despairing and furious. The score was put aside, abandoned...