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June 16, 2007 at 8:16am

JAZZ BLOG, Day 8: Reaching new heights

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If Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Odadaa! provided the festival’s finest Eastman Theatre concert Thursday night, Avishai Cohen and the great overseas players assembled in Jens Winther’s European Quintet.†

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Jazzbuff said on Jun. 16, 2007 at 8:45am

As someone who went to both of Don Byron's sets last night, I can testify that Ron Netsky's review is right on the money. What astonished me was the way the group played some of the same numbers at both sets, yet made them sound totally different. This was jazz improvisation at its very best. In general, Netsky's coverage of the 2007 festival has been superb, but he did miss what for me was the real highlight -- the performance by Paradigm Shift with Gray Mayfield and Wycliffe Gordon, which perfectly illustrated Netsky's point about how a great player can cause the rest of a group to go to a higher level. I have heard Gray Mayfield a number of times over the years and always thought he was very capable, but not extraordinary. In the last year, however, he seems to have taken a quantum leap, to the point where he is now one of the best sax and flute players in jazz today. Wycliffe Gordon is extremely talented as well, but when Mayfield was offstage for two numbers Gordon was not good enough to lift the group to great heights by himself. When Mayfield returned, they were back into the stratosphere again. We have all seen these musicians a lot over the years and now t

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