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John Zorn's loud `Spy' puts Ornette Coleman through some changes
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JOHN ZORN, "Spy vs. Spy - The Music of Ornette Coleman"
(Elektra/ Musician) (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2
Any album bearing special thanks to Napalm Death and Blind Idiot
God, as John Zorn's new one does, isn't likely to endear itself to
jazz purists. And for all its speeding devotion to hardcore music,
which in Zorn's estimation "rules" (exactly what he doesn't say),
this collection of adrenalized Ornette Coleman songs probably won't
win over diehard devotees of that form of noise, ei...
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; Pauline Kael once wrote that F. Murray Abraham had given audiences more pleasure than any actor of his generation. It was a statement no one except the New Yorker critic took seriously, but I found myself thinking of it the other day in relation to tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. I don't know how
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Little Village breaks the all-star band mold
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... Lush Life" apart, Henderson climbs the strategy ladder by recording in solo, duo, trio, quartet and quintet settings. The good news is all this packaging yields a solid and sometimes refreshing album. Henderson's peppy duo reading of "Take the `A' Train" with ...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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SKATING THROUGH ADVERSITY SHOWING THE IRON WILL THAT MADE HIM A CHAMPION, SCOTT HAMILTON IS WINNING HIS BATTLE AGAINST CANCER.(Sports)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Randy Holtz Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer He is spinning and twirling and leaping and gliding ... later, a year ago this Wednesday, Hamilton was given the sobering news by a doctor. Cancer. Testicular cancer. Hamilton looked the doctor ...
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Dick's Picks: Scott Hamilton 2
Portland Skanner
; Dick Bogle Portland Skanner 06-15-1994 Dick's Picks: Scott Hamilton 2. Scott Hamilton--Concord Scott Hamilton is a fine tenor player whose tone and attack sound remarkably like those of two of his musical role models, Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins. This very entertaining CD features Hamilton
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'Star of wonder, star of night'; City church's gaslit star illumines and inspires for 148th time tonight
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; O star of wonder, star of night Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to Thy perfect light. These words from John H. Hopkins Jr.'s Christmas hymn "We Three Kings" mirrors the mystique of another star -- the cast-iron gas star suspended 19 feet above the chancel
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Scott Hamilton Steps To Fore of Tenor Ranks
Chicago Sun-Times
; MONTREAL It's not as though swing specialist Scott Hamilton hadn't branched out into other styles before recording the lightly bopping "Groove Yard" for his 1991 "Race Point" album. You don't get to be one of the most commanding tenor saxophonists of the post-Stan Getz generation just by minding
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Scott Hamilton and friends serve up self-assured and stylish fare; Scott Hamilton Brecon Jazz Festival.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: Tony Heath THE pick of the bunch at Brecon Jazz Festival last night was the big build of Ruby Braff and Scott Hamilton. But at the last minute Braff, at 75, still won of jazz's leading cornet players was forced to pull out because of illness. That left Hamilton in charge. And the manner in
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SCOTT HAMILTON\OLYMPIC SKATER FINALLY FEELS AT HOME.(SPORTS)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: ALAN PEARCE SPECIAL TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Scott Hamilton has lived in Colorado for two decades, but he said his induction into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame only now ...
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SCOTT HAMILTON "After Hours" Concord
The Washington Post
; If tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton were to hang out for an after-hours session, as the title of his new album suggests, he could hardly hope for a better companion than pianist Tommy Flanagan. Relaxed, soulful and closely attuned to each other's gift for cool-toned expression, they make for an
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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JAZZ: SCOTT HAMILTON QUARTET Pizza Express Jazz Club London.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: sholto byrnes Before the young lions of the late Eighties began re-examining the Fifties and Sixties, Scott Hamilton had trodden an even earlier path, one that made him a rarity indeed: a young man during the Seventies heyday of fusion - when acoustic instruments were being left to gather
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