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Ground Breaking Sounds - Old and New

by Bob Osborne
May 13, 2021

Throughout the history of jazz innovation has been a key element of the development of the music. At key points in jazz history major changes in style, form and content have moved the music forward. Those changes have been picked up by other musicians and developed, interpreted, and enhanced leading to further change. This show is mainly about new releases but there are examples from earlier years of major influencers on jazz whose impact is still being felt today.

Album Review

CODE Quartet: Genealogy

Read "Genealogy" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
May 6, 2021

Chordless or not, quartets tend to find a way around the necessity of vertical simultaneousness to create significant harmonies. With the Montreal-based Code Quartet it's the former variety of instrumentation, combining a vital rhythm section of drum and bass with two horns, much like Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet or its logical continuation in the group Old and New Dreams. The music of Genealogy, made up almost exclusively of originals--hold the traditional “O Sacred head, Now Wounded," harmonized by Johann Sebastian ...