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The Group

Live

By The Group

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Joann's Green Satin Dress; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; La Placita; Shift Below; Amanpondo.

Melodic Art-Tet: Melodic Art-Tet

by John Sharpe
August 28, 2013

Once again the Lithuanian No Business label has unearthed a little known relic from the lower strata of NYC's loft jazz era. Like The Group's Live (No Business, 2013), the previous beneficiary of the imprint's ongoing investigation, the Melodic Art-Tet never officially recorded so this 1974 broadcast tape from WKCR represents the only surviving fragment of ...

The Group: Live

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 25, 2013

Mentre il preteso “centro del mondo" del jazz, ormai in sempre più costante ansia dissociativa e ricerca di consensi occasionali, si compiace delle gesta pop - nemmeno troppo pop e nemmeno troppo originali - di una Esperanza Spalding o sugli “originali" innesti hip-hop nella musica di Robert Glasper [ok, la memoria di tutti fa difetto, non ...

The Group: Live

by John Sharpe
March 3, 2013

What quirk of fate governs whether or not a band captures the public imagination? A star-studded lineup? A strong set of tunes? Or just the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time? For The Group--a stellar mid-'80s aggregation of New York City avant talent--all these preconditions seemed to be in place, ...