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Roy Campbell: Visitation Of Spirits

Read "Visitation Of Spirits" reviewed by John Sharpe


A former stalwart of the New York avant jazz scene, which finds expression at the annual Vision Festival, trumpeter Roy Campbell died in January 2014, aged 61. While not quite forgotten, his name does not spring readily to the lips a decade on. Perhaps Visitation Of Spirits, an archival live recording from 1985, will help redress that situation. It features the Pyramid Trio, one of Campbell's more enduring groups, which issued three albums over a lifespan of more than 25 ...

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Roy Campbell / John Dikeman / Raoul van der Weide / Peter Jacquemyn / Klaus Kugel: When The Time Is Right

Read "When The Time Is Right" reviewed by John Sharpe


This date from 2013 presents New York City based guests trumpeter Roy Campbell and German drummer Klaus Kugel with three Amsterdam-located improvisers as part of the DoEK organization's annual Festival. Campbell, a stalwart of the NYC avant scene who died in 2014, gained early exposure with Jemeel Moondoc's Ensemble Muntu and went on to helm his own Pyramid Trio and co-lead the revered cooperative Other Dimensions In Music, among a host of other projects. He brings his fiery updating of ...

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TEST and Roy Campbell: TEST and Roy Campbell

Read "TEST and Roy Campbell" reviewed by John Sharpe


This archival recording does what it says on the tin, capturing trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr. (who died in 2014) with free jazz quartet TEST in a high octane live date from April 1999. These five are masters of the genre. TEST were the archetypal New York City underground band, who could be found in their heyday busking on the subway, as well as igniting the downtown clubs. Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter and reedman Sabir Mateen provide the firepower, while bassist Matthew ...

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TEST with Roy Campbell: Live at The Hinton House

Read "Live at The Hinton House" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


More exquisite madness from Brooklyn's barn burning free jazz label 577 Records, home to the free and the brave. This time it's a hard core NY borough blowout recorded live in April 1999 that cantankerously and vividly chronicles the only known performance of the late, free/avant, Harlem/NoBro legend, trumpeterRoy Campbell. Unrestrained, Campbell raises the roof with a loosely defined autonomous collective of downtown alchemists, namely drummer Tom Bruno, bassist Matt Heyner and the rioting reeds of Sabir Mateen ...

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Stone Quartet: Live at Vision Festival

Read "Live at Vision Festival" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Live at Vision Festival è la seconda uscita, dopo il debutto del 2008, di un quartetto di prima grandezza della scena improvvisativa internazionale. Musicisti affermati, con una lunga storia di frequentazioni le più disparate, sorretti da un'inesauribile sete di ricerca che li ha portati a sperimentare in qualunque luogo fisico e spirituale ove albergasse il seme della curiosità, dell'intraprendenza e dell'azzardo. Una libera improvvisazione di oltre trentadue minuti e una di nove testimoniano l'esibizione del quartetto avvenuta nel 2010 al ...

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The Nu Band: Nu Band Live in Paris

Read "Nu Band Live in Paris" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tra i gruppi che animano la scena della libera improvvisazione, questo è tra i più avvincenti, ponendosi in equilibrio tra lo spirito incendiario del free storico e la ricerca più astratta delle successive correnti. I componenti sono tutti veterani dell'avanguardia (compreso il trombettista Roy Campbell che ha iniziato a farsi conoscere nei gruppi di William Parker o con Marc Ribot ma opera dagli anni settanta) e sono riusciti a sviluppare un discorso continuativo: il disco in oggetto, registrato dal vivo ...

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Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes

Read "Songs and Themes" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Di tutte le storie che la musica creativa (jazz?) ci ha raccontato nell’ultimo ventennio, quella di John Coxon e Ashley Wales, aka Spring Heel Jack, è senza dubbio una delle più incredibili. Ex chitarrista degli Spiritualized e DJ a tempo perso il primo, sperimentatore elettronico il secondo, i due si sono avvicinati al mondo dell’improvvisazione con infinito rispetto e un incredibile bagaglio di esperienze: dub, drum’n’bass, jungle, synth pop, shoegaze, neopsichedelia, noise, ambient. Ed è proprio grazie a questo armamentario ...


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