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Number Stations

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: First Bus To Bismarck; Tux Is Traitor; Make Anchor Babies; Green Dress, Maryland Welcome Center, 95 NB; It's Not A Bunny; Stereo Jack's, Bluegrass J's; Avoid Sprinter; 37° 56' 39" By 111° 32'.

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Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2013

Basta dare un'occhiata ai nomi che compongono il settetto chiamato The New Mellow Edwards e ci si rende subito conto che il gruppo è da paura. Sette musicisti, compreso il leader, tra i più attivi e influenti della scena newyorchese, ognuno titolare di progetti che stanno marchiando a fuoco le sorti del jazz contemporaneo, riuniti per ...

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Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 29, 2013

Many avant-garde composers, leaders or conductors employ various mechanisms to instruct the band for a specific composition. Here, longtime New York City alternative composer, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring integrates an all-star lineup for pieces inspired by a random series of numbers, based on shortwave radio stations. Hasslebring iterates that these pieces are hypothetically decoded and provide cryptic ...

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Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 1, 2013

Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and his band, the wonderfully named New Mellow Edwards, that takes its inspiration from these mysterious transmitters.The tune titles are rather enigmatic, but ...