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The Hammer

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Hammer; Frying Pan Destruction; Abstinence; Five Avocados; The Fine Points of Living; Milky Selma; The Shelton Hotel; What's Your Favorite Subaru Dealer?; The No-Business Business; Two Weeks That Changed One's Life; Too Many Clowns for a Small Circus; Plant Life.

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Ivo Perelman and Jay Rosen: The Hammer

Read "The Hammer" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Make all the comparisons you want: saxophonist Ivo Perelman has his own distinctive sound. At times exercising the split-tone multiphonics of Albert Ayler, at others relentlessly pursuing themes a la Coltrane, Perelman certainly draws heavily upon the free jazz tradition. But what sets his music apart is its personal character. On The Hammer, he further confounds ...

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Ivo Perelman/Jay Rosen: The Hammer

Read "The Hammer" reviewed by Mark Corroto


In examining the lineage of saxophonist/drum energy-jazz duos, consider John Coltrane/Rashied Ali’s Interstellar Space (1967), followed by Frank Lowe/Rashied Ali Duo Exchange (1972), Andrew Cyrille Meets Peter Brotzmann in Berlin (1982), Brotzmann’s duos with Hamid Drake called Dried Rat Dog (1994) and David Murray’s exchanges with Milford Graves, The Read Deal (1994). All these musicians stripped ...

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The Hammer

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Released: 2000

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Ivo Perelman: The Hammer

Read "The Hammer" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


On The Hammer, hard blowing tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman performs a series of heated, or shall we say - explosive - duets with modern jazz drummer Jay Rosen. Again, Perelman exhibits his passion for fierce and unaffected improvisation, performed with unparalleled guile and tenacity. At times, it is hard tell what instrument Perelman is actually playing ...

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The Hammer

Label: CBS/Sony
Released: 1987


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