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Mix Tape

Dubsex

by Philip Wester
July 8, 2011

My favorite Dubstep songs! TrackNameTimeArtistAlbum1Crawling/Krwlng (Murdok Dubstep Remix)3:31Linkin ParkDubstep2Concrete (Feat Dread MC)3:28TCDubstep3Make My Day (Specimen A Remix)2:40Bashy vs NAPTDubstep4Superman (Dubstep)5:38EminemDubstep5Let's Go2:28Roksonix & StatelapseDubstep6Amadeus (Mozart dubstep remix)2:5RudebratDubstep7Gifted (Masuka Remix)4:12NASA (Feat Kanye West, Santigold & Lykke Li )Dubstep8Monster (feat Example Camo & Krooked Remix)4:18Professor GreenDubstep9Shot Yourself In The Foot Again5:5Skream & ExampleDubstep10Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)4:11Simian Mobile DiscoDubstep11Constellation (Ion the Prize Dubstep Remix)6:29The FirmamentDubstep12Louder (Doctor P & Flux Pavilion Remix)2:27DJ FreshDubstep13Gold Dust (Flux Pavilion Remix)2:19DJ FreshDubstep14Panther (Zeds Dead Remix)3:52BarlettaDubstep15Out For ...

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Live Review

Montreal Jazz Festival, Days 4-6, July 2-4, 2011

by John Kelman
July 7, 2011

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 25-July 4, 2011 Montréal is a city in transition, and in a move that's absolutely uncharacteristic of other Canadian cities, is planning a downtown renovation driven, in no small part, by the arts. Place des Arts has been undergoing renovations for the past couple years, both internally and externally, in conjunction with the expansion of the TD Festival International ...

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Album Review

Matt Lavelle: Goodbye New York, Hello World

Read "Goodbye New York, Hello World" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
July 7, 2011

Multi-instrumentalist Matt Lavelle's CD is entitled Goodbye New York, Hello World--and he means it. Since 1999, Lavelle has been a vital part of the New York City avant-garde jazz scene: in addition to electrifying live performances and impressive CD releases, he has also been a thoughtful commentator on the music world, including blogs, Facebook posts, and a memoir-in-progress that's creating a buzz both online and off. These days, Lavelle's music and life have been taking him increasingly to Europe--including an ...

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Big Band Caravan

H2 Big Band / Tempest Little Big Band / Deutsch Oper Berlin Big Band

by Jack Bowers
July 7, 2011

The H2 Big BandYou're It!Jazzed Media2010 Big-band album of the year? There have been a number of worthy aspirants in the first half of 2011, and now comes another strong contender: the Denver-based H2 Big Band, whose debut recording, You're It!, is a paragon of straight-ahead blowing pleasure from start to finish. The “H2" refers not to an ensemble in search of a stray molecule to produce water but to the surnames ...

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Album Review

Ernie Krivda: Blues for Pekar

Read "Blues for Pekar" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 7, 2011

Cleveland, Ohio-based tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda teams up with his “Detroit Connection," a rhythm section of Motor City jazz stalwarts, on Blues for Pekar, a swinging mainstream set that bursts to life with a fiery take on the standard, “The End of a Love Affair." After a brief unison head with the first of his guest front-liners, trumpeter Dominick Farinacci, Krivad--an under-appreciated veteran with more than thirty CDs to his credit--cuts loose, announcing himself as a stylist as idiosyncratic as ...

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Album Review

David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 7, 2011

Saxophonist David Binney broke new ground with Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011), which was a world unto itself, and shortly before that, he delivered Aliso (Criss Cross, 2010)--a jagged set of music featuring original works and some compositions from visionaries like Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane. With Barefooted Town, Binney returns for another outing on the Criss Cross label, bringing a whole batch of originals along for the occasion. While this music contains the rhythmic twists and turns, and ...

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Album Review

Kaissa: I Am So Happy

Read "I Am So Happy" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
July 7, 2011

Blessed with a vocal timbre that invokes aural images of her native Cameroon, Kaïssa carries on the musical traditions of Africa with poise and precision on I Am So Happy, . Staying true to her roots, she sings in the indigenous languages of Doula and Zulu, transcending barriers of translation with a sincerity beyond boundaries or borders. This is an admirable self-production, with the vocals prominent in the mix, the accompanying musicians setting the backdrop for Kaïssa's ...

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Jazz and the Net

The Grand Unified Field Of Harmony Part 1

by Catrina Daimon Lee
July 7, 2011

A Wordy Introduction A “Grand Unification" type of harmonic theory, to be useful, has to be transportable over the entire terrain of authentic musical activity, covering as many stylizations and idioms as in existence. It must be diagnostic, generative and predictive. All harmonic and melodic systems past and present are idiomatically bound to one or a very few stylistic areas, and are proven to be of limited usability, except within their stylistic purview. I discovered ...

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Album Review

George Benson: Body Talk

Read "Body Talk" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 6, 2011

With a title like Body Talk, and a lead-off track called “Dance," George Benson--a guitar-god-on-the-rise when this album originally hit shelves in 1973--makes it clear that this music is all about feeling the groove. While a good number of Benson projects on CTI benefited from Don Sebesky's arrangements, the guitarist needed a funkier feeling for this album, and Pee Wee Ellis was just the man to provide it. Ellis helped to create the sound that defined the music of James ...

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Live Review

Christian Jacob: On Respect and Knowledge of Jazz in Japan

by Wayne Zade
July 6, 2011

Christian Jacob was born in Lorraine, France, and began classical piano studies at the age of four. His early musical influences included Debussy and Ravel, as well as Oscar Peterson, whose approaches to improvisation impressed him the most. Having won First Prize in a piano competition at the Paris Conservatory, Jacob studied and then later taught at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Maynard Ferguson played an important role early in Jacob's career, giving the pianist a job in ...