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Mike DeiCont: DeiCont | Philips Collective

Read "DeiCont | Philips Collective" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 15, 2018

Mike DeiCont and Allison Philips are the kind of players who don't want to just give you something unusual to listen to, but hopefully take you on a trip as well. It's unclear exactly where--probably to them as well as you--since the results are in territory so abstract it's off the map. Sometimes it's not even about where they're going so much as the games they can play and noise they can make in getting there. The duo's ...

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Desert Foxx: Kill Together

Read "Kill Together" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
March 12, 2017

There's music intended to be pleasant or listenable--probably most of it out there, all told--and then there's the kind that's more about provoking or challenging the person who's listening. The more abstract something is, the harder it can be to discern just what the purpose or message is, and a brief fifteen-minute recording can only give so much of a hint. Nonetheless, the Brooklyn-based trio Desert Foxx paints a couple preliminary pictures with Kill Together to poke at the ears ...

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Allison Philips Trio: Allison Philips Trio

Read "Allison Philips Trio" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
November 27, 2016

Straddling her residencies between New York City and Amsterdam, trumpeter Allison Philips has been performing since age fourteen, eventually landing at venues that have included Le Poisson Rouge, Iridium, and The Jazz Standard. Leading a quartet, she played the 2014 Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Philips has a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and is working toward Masters in Jazz Performance at The Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. Her debut album, ...