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Frank Carlberg's Piano and Compositions Come to the Forefront in "Uncivilized Ruminations"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Frank Carlberg is not just a new jazz sort of fellow. He's doing something actually rather new. If you start with the sort of angular abstractions Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi used to do, you get a stepping off point for where the music on Uncivilized Ruminations (RPR Red Piano Records) begins. Unfortunately the graphic design of the CD jacket makes whatever is on it unreadable, a too common result when there is no art director around to tell you ...
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The Bad Plus Marks A Decade At The Forefront Of Progressive Music
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Michael Ricci
Never Stop, the trio's first album of all originals, Set for release on September 14, 2010 E1 Music is excited to announce the release of The Bad Plus's new album, Never Stop, on September 14, 2010. It is the band's first album of all originals, and it's eighth release overall. Recorded in Minnesota, Never Stop does just what the title says. It's a rapid-fire succession of engaging performances by three musical explorers operating as highly skilled individualsbassist Reid Anderson, pianist ...
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Music Videos Make a Comeback -- And Los Angeles Directors Are at the Forefront
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All About Jazz
As proven on this blog and many others last week, music videos like M.I.A.'s violent tale of ginger genocide are one of the few elements of the music business that still has the power to stir conversation.
In an article this week, New York Magazine tracks how the medium recovered from its early aughts slump. We'll give you a little hint: Something called YouTube is largely responsible. That, and OK Go. It's been a long time since MTV lived up ...
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ESP-Disk Returns to the Forefront of Modern Music
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All About Jazz
ESP-DISK, the premiere American avant garde record label of the sixties--one of the most turbulently creative periods in music history-has returned to reclaim its rich legacy with a series of releases that include reissues of groundbreaking out of print albums from its extensive catalogue, exciting previously unreleased live sessions from its vaults and new recordings that follow in its great tradition of presenting cutting edge modern musicians under the banner of The artists alone decide..." The latest collection of compact ...
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4 Latin Jazz Flautists Bringing the Instrument into the Forefront
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz