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Joe Locke
The Joe Locke Quartet
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Joe Locke / Christos Rafalides Duo
Rev.elation - The Music of Milt Jackson
misc. band projects and international press

June 08, 2006 - By Jeff Spevak
Democrat & Chronicle
"Locke, who left Rochester in his early 20s for New York City, played the festival here two years ago with his band 4 Walls of Freedom. He's accompanied traditional vocalists such as Dianne Reeves, tried electric funk and swapped riffs with the notorious bleating-saxman of the avant-garde, Cecil Taylor. He'll be recording this month with Latin star Eddie Palmieri."
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November 17, 2005 - By Jason West
All About Jazz
"I think that what musicians like more than anything else is to play meaningful music that communicates something that resonates with the listener and I think that takes rehearsing and developing, taking the time to let what you want to communicate unfold and you need time for that to gestate and be able to talk about it before you present it to an audience. That’s definitely what it’s like with me and my colleagues."
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April 20, 2006
The 10th Anniversary CNY Jazz Orchestra Concert Series draws to a close in a concert with featured guest Joe Locke, said to be “set to become the pre-eminent vibraphonist in jazz” (London Times).
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February 10, 2008
JazzWorldQuest.com
""..[Locke's] chamber-impressionistic style touched by a tasteful "Lockian" romanticism infuses each piece of this beautiful album blending energy and tempos into a crystal clarity sound...". [..]
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January 19, 2008 - By Andrew Rigmore
Jazzreview.com
"This CD, released under the Italian label JazzEyes, features Locke leading what may be considered his very quartet, as for performance, interpretation, interplay and, not least, his own writing...". [..]
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January 12, 2008 - By Michael G. Nastos
All Music Guide
"Locke wrote five of the nine selections, and they display his emerging talent in building memorable melodies...". [..]
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December 03, 2007 - By Dr. Mike
Radio IO
If you are gifted with ‘the ear’ for jazz, I suggest you get your own copy of this album and move first to Joe’s track ‘Terzani’. This track alone is worth the purchase of the album. The chord structure is elongated in that special fusion fashion which takes the listener along for the anticipated resolve. [..]
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November 06, 2007 - By Kerstin Rickert
Mindener Tageblatt
November 02, 2007
Infoblatt (Minden)
November 13, 2007 - By John Kelman
All About Jazz
It’s always risky, with a track record like Locke’s, to describe his latest record as his best yet. Where Sticks and Strings will place when the book is closed on his discography many years in the future is uncertain. [..]
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October 27, 2007 - Dr. Jeff Monroe
Those new to Locke’s music will probably like this outing, but may want to begin elsewhere in his discography. For those already familiar with this longstanding mallet talent, this new direction could be an eye- and ear-opener. [..]
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February 11, 2007 - By Rick Bang
The Davis Enterprise
This CD presents the 2005 award-winning concert — and U.S. debut — of the Joe Locke and Geoffrey Keezer quartet. Until recently, this group toured only in Japan, although it made two recordings for the Sony “Eighty-Eight” series label. [..]
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November 2006 - By John Ferrara
Jazz Radio 24seven
A suitable preamble for this review might include the following descriptors: spontaneous, controlled, innovative, melodic, inventive, raucous, sensitive, energetic. [..]
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November 2006 - By Harvey Siders
JazzTimes
So much is happening at any given moment that careful, repeat listening is required to separate the various strands that combine to create the sheets of sound (or as Locke prefers, “cascade”). [..]
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September 29, 2006 - By Jason West
All About Jazz
As can be the case on special occasions, this live recording is ripe with sonic excitement, spontaneity, and the ubiquitous impression that something extraordinary is happening right before one’s ears. [..]
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July 17, 2006 - By Dr. Michael Matheny
RadioIO Jazz
The newest from Joe Locke and Geoffrey Keezer, 'Live in Seattle' is out in stores Tuesday the 18th of July, and just might be the best jazz release of 2006. [..]
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July 17, 2006 - By John Kelman
All About Jazz
Arranging to record a concert always creates the hope for one of those special performances where everything gels perfectly. Live in Seattle captures the Locke/Keezer Group on one such occasion, finally realizing the fully contemporary potential of this ongoing collaboration. [..]
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July 11, 2006 - By Andrea Canter
Jazz Police
Two giants of modern mainstream jazz joined forces last fall at the Ballard Jazz Festival in Seattle, and the result was golden. [..]
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July, 2006 - By Jeff Krow
Adiophile Audition
Vibraphonist Joe Locke and keyboardist Geoff Keezer have had three recorded collaborations - the first two were released in Japan only on a different label...
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June, 2006 - By Ken Dryden
All Music Guide
Vibraphonist Joe Locke and keyboardist Geoff Keezer's third collaboration (their previous two CDs were released in Japan under the New Sound Quartet moniker) is their first live recording as a team...
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June 15, 2006 - By Jeff Spevak
Democrat and Chronicle
If you took your eye off Joe Locke for one moment, you missed jazz. The Rochester native - who just might be the finest vibraphone player on the planet - slipped off his jacket 30 seconds into the opening number of a hot and sweaty Rochester International Jazz Festival set Wednesday at The Montage.
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June 09, 2006 - By Ken Dryden
All About Jazz
During the ‘90s, both Joe Locke and Geoffrey Keezer saw their careers take off with a flurry of compelling CDs as individual leaders. Recently, they joined forces to co-lead the New Sound Quartet, recording for the Japanese label Eighty-Eights.
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May 17, 2006 - By Andrea Canter
Jazz Police
From June 6-11, master vibraphonist Joe Locke joins forces with exciting pianist Geoffrey Keezer, as the Locke/Keezer (“New Sounds”) Quartet promises six nights of 21st century sophistication anchored in 20th century accessibility, timeless musicality, and incendiary inspiration.
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November 18, 2005 - By Paul de Barros
The Seattle Times
Joe Locke says he tries to achieve a "cascade of sound." "This band truly represents where I'm at artistically," says intense vibraphonist Joe Locke, who shares a double bill Saturday with Eric Alexander at the Ballard Jazz Festival.
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March 12, 2006 - By John Kelman
All About Jazz
If jazz is a marginalized genre and the vibraphone is a marginalized instrument within that genre, then Van Gogh by Numbers—an album of vibes and marimba duets—is clearly a first. But the idea of an intimate series of mallet duets will come as no surprise to listeners familiar with Joe Locke, who's been active for over two decades but has garnered considerably more attention in recent years.
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March 12, 2006 - By Ken Dryden
The pairing of vibes and marimba is not unprecedented, but this meeting between vibraphonist Joe Locke and marimba player Christos Rafalides features just the two instruments, and most of the session made up of their fascinating originals.
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March 02, 2007 - by Will Friedwald
The New York Sun
This week, Jackson is being saluted at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in a program called "Rev-elation!" by the contemporary vibraphonist Joe Locke, who is accompanied by Jackson's last touring rhythm section, with pianist and co-star Mike LeDonne, the drummer Mickey Roker, and the bass virtuoso Bobby Cranshaw.
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October 10, 2006
All About Jazz
Locke, who would work up quite a sweat, was a man in constant motion. “Off Minor”, “Revelation”, and “Opus De Funk” contained ample passages of solo brilliance from Locke and LeDonne...
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October 2006
All About Jazz (offline)
The Milt Jackson Tribute Band featuring vibist Joe Locke, with Jackson’s last rhythm section of pianist Mike LeDonne, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Mickey Roker, delivered a hard swinging set of songs associated with the late great mallet master at The Kitano...
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April, 2006
JAZZ HOT (France)
Joe Locke joue ici avec la rythmique même de Bags: les automatismes sont en place, la télépathie foctionne...
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March 03, 2006 - By Russ Musto
All About Jazz
Few tribute albums released these days do justice to the music of the honoree, or the artistry of the player acknowledging the influence of the venerated figure, on the high level that Joe Locke reaches on Rev-elation, easily one of the hardest swinging records released recently.
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September 30, 2005 - By Doug Ramsey
Rifftides - an ARTSJOURNAL weblog
One of the things I like about Joe Locke’s new CD, Rev-elation, is that Bob Cranshaw plays acoustic bass on it. Sonny Rollins, for reasons unclear to me, prefers the electric instrument over what I irritate some of my bassist acquaintances by calling the real bass.
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November 12, 2004 - By Alex Greer
Columbia Daily Spectator
Since when did we take “cool” to be Robin Leach-inspired songs from whiny vocalists and a band that has no knowledge of their instruments outside of power chords?
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March/April, 2006 - By Ed Trefzger
JazzWeek
The Words “Film Noir” conjure up images of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe and a feeling of suspense, intrigue, and maybe a little soot and grime. Guitarist Bob Sneider and vibist Joe Locke and the rest of the Film Noir Project septet succeed in setting a cinematic and thematic mood on this CD of film and film-inspired compositions.
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April 14, 2006 - By Jerry D'Souza
All About Jazz
[...] This Film Noir Project transposes that spell to music, capturing the essence of the themes that enhance the thrill of watching the films.
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April 08, 2006 - By Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This music is as subtle and nuanced as the shadows in an old black-and-white movie. Like the film noir that inspired it, Fallen Angel is romantic and jaded, beautiful and cynical, and full of longing and disappointment, all at the same time.
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December 14, 2007 - John Fordham
The Guardian (UK)
[...] Smith has been running an ambitious youth orchestra in Scotland for years, and this set (mainly distributed through the saxophonist's website) doesn't just chronicle the sound of the latest edition, but adds the exciting American vibraphone virtuoso Joe Locke. [...]
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July, 2007 - various authors
German papers
June 27, 2007 - By Kenny Mathieson
The Scotsman
"Florian Ross's Giant Steps began with lovely muted brass. Joe Locke's Naima and Geoffrey Keezer's subtly coloured and textured Dear Lord brought respite in an often frantic evening."
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June 27, 2007 - By Rob Adams
The Herald
"SNJO lead trumpeter Ryan Quigley's re-imagination of Impressions produced a mini suite, with a classic Coltrane Quartet segueing into, first, a punchy orchestration then a lush adaptation that brought out the fury then the tender from Smith's tenor saxophone, and New York vibraphonist Joe Locke, in superimposing the gorgeous Naima on to a piece of his own, actually suggested that Friday's festival guest, Pat Metheny, might arrive early to take the first solo."
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January, 2007 - By Thomas Conrad
JazzTimes
[...] Joe Locke is fun to hear and watch. His solos in Orvieto were huge wheeling spirals, and he leapt around his instrument like an acrobat. [...]
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