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Hamid Drake

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b. 3 August 1955, Monroe, Louisiana, USA. Hamid Drake studied drums extensively, including eastern and Caribbean styles. In 1974 he began what was to be a long-term musical relationship with Fred Anderson. In the late 70s, Anderson introduced him to George Lewis and Douglas Ewart. His most significant percussion influences, Ed Blackwell and Adam Rudolph, date from this period. The latter, who was a childhood friend, became another continuing collaborator and they appeared together in numerous contexts, including Anderson's 1979 The Missing Link. Don Cherry, who Drake first met in 1978, was another continuing collaborator

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Article: Album Review

Roy Campbell: Visitation Of Spirits

Read "Visitation Of Spirits" reviewed by John Sharpe


A former stalwart of the New York avant jazz scene, which finds expression at the annual Vision Festival, trumpeter Roy Campbell died in January 2014, aged 61. While not quite forgotten, his name does not spring readily to the lips a decade on. Perhaps Visitation Of Spirits, an archival live recording from 1985, will help redress ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Favourite Releases of 2023

Read "Favourite Releases of 2023" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


For a show that doesn't turn to tradition very often, there is one on One Man's Jazz: the first show of a new year features the host's favourite releases of the outgoing year. 2023 was an excellent year for new albums--post-pandemic inspiration perhaps? Regardless, big props are due to the artists who create this music and ...

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Article: Album Review

Frode Gjerstad with Matthew Shipp: We Speak

Read "We Speak" reviewed by John Sharpe


While the combination of reedman Frode Gjerstad--the godfather of Norwegian free jazz who dwells about as far from the so-called Nordic sound as you can get--and pianist Matthew Shipp -whose lineage can be traced back through what he terms The Black Mystery School, which takes in Thelonious Monk, Mal Waldron and Randy Weston among others--might seem ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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The Individualists

Label: Lizard Breath Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Victims of the Cultural Hegemony; Blue Bakunin; The Individualists; Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion Obligation; The Passion of Lucy Parsons; Mutualism in Action; Malatesta on the Move; Bumpin' with Da Bourgeoisie; Late Capitalist Inferno.

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Since Time is Gravity

Label: Eremite Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Moontide Chorus, Is, Murmuration, Wane, Stigmergy, Immemorial, Wax, Gravity

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Timeless

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2023

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For Jemeel: Fire From The Road

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Improvised Music At The El Dorado Ballroom (Intro ByDave Dove); CD2: Junka Nu; Improvised Music At The Ballroom Marfa; Space Cowboys; CD3: Box Set; Junka New; Swimming In The Galaxy Of Goodwill And Sorrow.

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Label: Meta Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:20


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