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Extended Analysis

Nikola Kodjabashia and Foltin feat Goce Stevkovski: Penelope X

by Nenad Georgievski
March 13, 2011

Nikola Kodjabashia and Foltin feat. Goce StevkovskiPenelope XFilter Records2011 There is a motto which says that if you don't know to which port you are sailing then no wind will be favorable. It's the same with collaborations. Following Ovaa Transplantirana Mashina za Chukanje (Self Produced, 2008) the latest installment of the music of Foltin finds the band enjoying the company of good friends. For this journey, it has employed the services ...

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Album Review

Placido Domingo, The Chicago Symphony Orchesta and Chorus, Daniel Barenboim: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - La Marseillaise

Read "Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - La Marseillaise" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 13, 2011

There was no one man in the French Romantic Movement more hot-blooded than composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Proficient in no particular instrument, Berlioz's talent lay in composition, arrangement, and conducting. The entire orchestra was his instrument. Learned, erudite, and all around sanguine wild man, Berlioz existed in the rarefied company of other great Romanticists including Liszt, Wagner, Paganini, Chopin and Schumann. Berlioz's most noted composition was his five-movement symphony Symphonie Fantastique, composed and premiered in 1830. The ...

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Live Review

The Church Live at B.B. King's Bar And Grill, New York City

by Mike Perciaccante
March 13, 2011

The ChurchB.B. King's Bar And GrillNew York, USAFebruary 17, 2011 Three decades of The Church revisited in three classic albums. When Australia's The Church was scheduled, on Thursday, February 17, 2011, to perform Untitled 23 (Second Motion, 2009), Priest = Aura (Arista, 1992) and Starfish (Arista, 1988) in their entirety, it became special event, representing, as they do, classic releases from each of the band's three-decade existence. The evening began when Matt ...

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Album Review

Bill McBirnie: Mercy

Read "Mercy" reviewed by Paul J. Youngman

by Paul J. Youngman
March 13, 2011

Bill McBirnie is an award-winning flutist, based in Toronto, Canada and Mercy is the fourth release on his own independent label, Extreme Flute. The album is divided into two parts with a quartet performing on seven songs, and a duo, featuring McBirnie and pianist Robi Botos, covering five songs. The liner notes indicate the project was recorded over two days in the summer of 2009, with the quartet performing on day one and the duo the following day. The quartet ...

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Take Five With...

Take Five With Adam De Lucia

by AAJ Staff
March 13, 2011

Meet Adam De Lucia: Adam De Lucia is a musician/composer/producer who has pulled out all the stops to make Hi-Bred Productions successful. He has several personas at the studio beside his dedicated guitar playing and composing. He has networked with all of the creative partners himself to secure their participation. He has designed album artwork and labored as an Art Director and conceptualist to lead other design professionals to create album art work. He develops and deploys ...

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Album Review

Atipico Trio: Eqqueqqua' !!!

Read "Eqqueqqua' !!!" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
March 12, 2011

Imagination is the key to the door of communication for baritone saxophonist Carlo Actis Dato. He opens it to reveal a wide panorama of music, that he shapes through several groups. Over the years, he has had a nonet with Actis Furioso, a quintet with Actis Band, the Brasserie Trio and duets with Baldo Martinez. No matter what the size, Actis Dato makes sure that there are some common elements. Folk music and world rhythms are inherent and, when it ...

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Afrobeat Diaries

Part 21 - Final Fela Kuti Masterpieces Reissued

by Chris May
March 12, 2011

Fela Power Show: Batch 4 is the concluding, eight-disc chapter in Knitting Factory Records' 26-disc reissue program of Fela Anikulapo Kuti albums and early singles. It starts on the 1979/80 cusp of the dissolution of Afrika 70 and the formation of Egypt 80, when Kuti made the landmark Vagabonds In Power (1979), Coffin For Head Of State (1980) and Original Sufferhead (1981). It finishes with three late masterpieces--Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (1986), Beasts Of No Nation (1989) and Underground ...

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Album Review

Thommy Andersson/Peter Nilsson/Jacob Anderskov: Triofolded

Read "Triofolded" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 12, 2011

This masterful recording by Swedish-born, Denmark-resident bassist Thommy Andersson and Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov, plus Swedish drummer Peter Nilsson--each of them a leader in his own right--presents a Nordic interpretation of free improvised music. The focus of the trio is not on energetic, dense and fiery playing but on the intensity of responsive and patient interplay, tonal richness, and changing dynamics, where the leader of each improvisation is challenged by the other players in true democratic manner, free of any ...

Live Review

Blue Chunks and Friends: Oceanside, CA, February 26, 2011

by Dan McClenaghan
March 12, 2011

The Blue Chunks and FriendsAn Evening of Performing and Visual ArtsSunshine Brooks TheaterOceanside, CAFebruary 26, 2011 The Sunshine Brooks Theater hosted a stirred-up gumbo of entertainment, main ingredient jazz, on Saturday, February 26, in the old movie house that sits in the historical heart of the city of Oceanside, San Diego County's northernmost beach town, on what used to be called Hill Street, and is now named Pacific Coast Highway. For the ...

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Album Review

Gene Ludwig: Love Notes of Cole Porter

Read "Love Notes of Cole Porter" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 12, 2011

The Hammond B3 organ combo has always seemed like a working man's jazz group. Drums/guitar/organ groups, often with a saxophone, was a brand of music brought to popularity in the mid-fifties by Jimmy Smith, with interest in the B3 soul jazz sound exploding in the sixties with the work of Jimmy McGriff and Jack McDuff, and the establishment of organ rooms in centers of working class cities like Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, and Gene Ludwig's home turf, Pittsburgh.