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Article: Album Review

Dexter Payne Quintet: Jazz for All (Jazz Forró)

Read "Jazz for All (Jazz Forró)" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Dexter Payne plays clarinet with an easy, warm and conversational style. It never sounds like he's pushing or stretching toward the next note, but more like he kind of just lets the next note flow out from this one. On Jazz For All, Payne and his quintet flow through Brazilian choro from a unique, multi-cultured and ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

From Choro to Chaos

Read "From Choro to Chaos" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Berkeley Choro Ensemble The View from Here Self-Produced 2017 Like its organic natural wonders, the music of Brazil seems to flourish in different forms and styles of beauty. But much of its music has grown from the root of choro: Born in the mid-to late-1800s from the joining ...

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Article: Album Review

Thinking Plague: Hoping Against Hope

Read "Hoping Against Hope" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Thinking Plague has been an enigmatic genre defying progressive rock ensemble for 35-years. They span the gamut of a simmering stew, consisting of art-rock, anti-pop, progressive rock, free jazz and segments when acting like doomsday soothsayers led by vocalist Elaine di Falco's whispery but at times, imposing musical presence. Mike Johnson is the primary composer, lyricist ...

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Article: Album Review

The Delegation: Evergreen (Canceled World)

Read "Evergreen (Canceled World)" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Stretched out over two discs and featuring a 13-piece band that includes a string quartet, two vocalists and a dedicated person on “additional electronics" Evergreen (Canceled World) totally lives up to its larger-than-life sweep and scope. The brainchild of keyboardist and composer Gabriel Zucker, the Delegation's music is rooted in the edgy sort of modern / ...

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Article: Album Review

Faun and a Pan Flute: Traffic

Read "Traffic" reviewed by Dave Wayne


jny: Atlanta, the home of OutKast, CeeLo Green, Usher, and really the whole “Dirty South" hip hop thing, is not a place normally associated with bands that play super-complex all-original instrumental art-rock. So, you may have to pinch yourself when you hear Traffic by Atlanta-based prog-rockers Faun and a Pan Flute. And to be totally frank, ...

Article: Album Review

Thinking Plague: Decline and Fall

Read "Decline and Fall" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Gli americani Thinking Plague si confermano come uno dei gruppi di riferimento del rock progressivo a stelle e strisce, forti di una presenza ultradecennale sulla scena che li porta ora al sesto album sempre sotto la guida del chitarrista Mike Johnson, autore delle sei composizioni nelle quali si struttura il lavoro. I testi, sempre a cura ...

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Decline and Fall

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Malthusian Dances; I Cannot Fly; Sleeper Cell Anthem; A Virtuous Man; The gyre; Climbing the Mountain.

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Article: Interview

Ron Miles: Jazz Gentleman, Part 2

Read "Ron Miles: Jazz Gentleman, Part 2" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [Editor's Note: The second part of Florence Wetzel's extensive interview with Ron Miles covers the Colorado-based trumpeter's early performance years, and begins a chronological look at all of his solo releases, beginning with Distance for Safety (Prolific Records, 1987) and concluding with Heaven (Sterling Circle, 2002), ...

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Article: Album Review

Thinking Plague: Decline and Fall

Read "Decline and Fall" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Thinking Plague cofounder/guitarist Mike Johnson penned the lyrics and composed the music for the group's meticulously engineered sixth album. Considered one of the premiere Rock in Opposition units, Johnson's lyrics presage an anarchistic domain with offbeat allusions to life's injustices. As band newcomer, vocalist Elaine Di Falco summons notions of an angel in despair throughout these ...


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