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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Complete Obscure Records Collection 1975-1978

Read "The Complete Obscure Records Collection 1975-1978" reviewed by Chris May


The first ever CD box set gathering the complete 10-album catalogue of Brian Eno's Obscure Records has been released by Italian-based label Dialogo. In the mid to late 1970s, Obscure gave a platform to some of the most significant young British composers of experimental music, together with a few Americans. In a quiet way spectacularly successful, ...

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Article: Live Review

Ojai Music Festival 2019

Read "Ojai Music Festival 2019" reviewed by Josef Woodard


Ojai Music FestivalLibbey Bowl, and other venues Ojai, California June 6-9, 2019 In the storied and still-evolving story of the Ojai Music Festival, one of America's most important contemporary music-minded festivals, the roots system run deep into mid-century Modernism and late 20th century post-Modernist impulses and up to the current, ...

Album

Top Shelf

Label: Eclectus Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Love for Sale; An Occasional Man; Necessary Evil; Just Give Me a Man; Hooray for Love; That's How I Got My Start; Out of This World; That's the Kind of Guy I Dream Of; Wasting My Love on You; Skylark

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New Vintage

Label: Eclectus Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: That's How I Got My Start; I'll Take Romance; Where Did the Magic Go; An Occasional Man; Wasting My Love On You; Nevertheless; A Little Jive Is Good For You; The Man I Love Is Gone; All About You; Nothing Can Replace A Man; It's A Nuisance Having You Around; (Medley) Love Ago and Far Away/You Stepped Out of a Dream; I Once Knew A Woman (Fella)

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Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

Kit Downes and Tom Challenger: Organ Crawling

Read "Kit Downes and Tom Challenger: Organ Crawling" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Pianist-organist Kit Downes is one of the brightest and most articulate talents to emerge from the British and European scenes in recent times. His refusal to be pinned down to any specific career path or musical trajectory is to his credit but even more so is his ability to produce authentic music without compromise across style, ...

News: Award / Grant

NEA Launches Guidelines, Webinar & Content for Music

The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce application guidelines are available for Grants for Arts Projects in Music: Arts Works & Challenge America Fast-Track deadlines are March, May, and August 2013. Applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes with at ...

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Article: Interview

Davey Payne: Ready To Play

Read "Davey Payne: Ready To Play" reviewed by Sammy Stein


Davey Payne is known best for the time when he was saxophonist with British group, The Blockheads. His solo on the 1978 number 1 hit, “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" was the first time a double sax solo had appeared on a hit record. Before he joined forces with Dury, who fronted The ...

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Article: Album Review

Anglagard: Viljans Oga

Read "Viljans Oga" reviewed by Alex Franquelli


Complexity can sometimes be considered a form of art in itself and it seldom follows simplicity. Complexity is also impressionism in its purest form. Its faithful depiction of the present may be deemed naïve and unsophisticated, but it remains an unfiltered, pure representation of the being. Less than 20 years ago, Änglagård's albums, Hybris (Mellotronen, 1992) ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Julian Waterfall Pollack

Read "Take Five with Julian Waterfall Pollack" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Julian Waterfall Pollack:At the age of twenty-one, New York pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack has the jazz community abuzz with his mature, technically ferocious, and dynamic piano playing. Among his many accomplishments, Pollack was featured on Marian McPartland's renowned NPR show, Piano Jazz, at age eighteen. He has performed internationally ...


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