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Son of a Bitches Brew

Label: Important Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Son Of A Bitches Brew; Helen Buddha; Miss Condom X; Fellatioh's Dance (also Bitch's Blow); Water Babies Kill Kill Kill; Theme From Violence Jack Johnson; Tabata Mitsuru; Sweet Peanut Vs. Macedonian Beauty.

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Acid Mothers Temple and Melting Paraiso UFO: Son of a Bitches Brew

Read "Son of a Bitches Brew" reviewed by Dave Wayne


One would have to be living in a cave not to know that trumpeter Miles Davis' electric music has become a bit of a cause célèbre amongst forward-thinking jazz artists. Love it or hate it, Davis' radical experiments with funk, acid rock, and Stockhausen-inspired sound painting has quickly gone from much-maligned to iconic over the past ...

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Quartet (GTM) 2006

Label: Important Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Composition No. 338; Composition No. 340; Composition No. 341; Composition No. 346.

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(un)sentimental

Label: Important Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Unfinished Ballad; Army of Strangers; Bird Dog; P#2; Pinched; Chantal; Too Sweet; Never Before; Hate Fields.

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The Thirteenth Assembly: (un)sentimental

Read "(un)sentimental" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


The Thirteenth Assembly was founded as a touring collective that appeals to promoters' predilection for booking multiple acts on a single night. Guitarist Mary Halvorson, violist Jessica Pavone, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and drummer Tomas Fujiwara have longstanding duo and trio permutations and to end their concerts, they convene as a quartet and have forged a ...

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Anthony Braxton: Quartet (GTM) 2006

Read "Quartet (GTM) 2006" reviewed by Stuart Broomer


Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music is a vast continent, a central preoccupation for the composer from 1995 to 2006 that would take in about 100 compositions. The first examples, “Composition Nos. 181-184," were recorded by a quartet. Each piece was characterized by the hypnotic continuous lines of equal length, evenly accented notes suggesting endless melody. The ...

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The Thirteenth Assembly: (un)sentimental

Read "(un)sentimental" reviewed by Troy Collins


Originally conceived as a touring collective consisting of smaller units sharing common personnel, the Thirteenth Assembly features some of today's brightest talent: cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum; violist Jessica Pavone; guitarist Mary Halvorson; and drummer Tomas Fujiwara--all notable band leaders in the new Brooklyn scene. A fountainhead of creative improvised music, Brooklyn is witness to ...

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The Seasons Fire

Label: Important Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Realize; Outcry; Pitch; Under the Hammer; Baron; Seasons II; Fate.

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William Hooker: The Seasons Fire

Read "The Seasons Fire" reviewed by Laurel Gross


There's that iconic story about Elvin Jones, the man who altered the course of jazz drumming by seeking new sounds. Once at a gig in a bar as a young man, a customer came up to him and said, “Hey, make some noise." Relating the incident to Lewis Nash in a 1977 interview, Jones added: “People ...


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