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Billy Stein Trio: Hybrids

Read "Hybrids" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il chitarrista Billy Stein è abbastanza conosciuto negli ambienti dell'avanguardia e finalmente arriva a presentare un lavoro su disco grazie alla Barking Hoop, la casa discografica del percussionista Kevin Norton, incontrato di nuovo dopo una trentina d'anni. Con Stein troviamo due autentici maestri dei loro strumenti, il contrabbassista Reuben Radding, ed il batterista Rashid Bakr, entrambi spesso con nomi importanti dell'avanguardia contemporanea. Le linee chitarristiche di Stein sono libere da convenzioni armoniche, un pò sulla via di un Joe Morris ...

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Album Review

Billy Stein: Hybrids

Read "Hybrids" reviewed by Troy Collins


Hybrids, guitarist Billy Stein's debut recording, arrives after thirty years of playing sideman to some of the finest musicians in the New York area. A singular stylist with an unorthodox approach, Stein shares the same off-center sensibility as stylistic peers like Bern Nix, Joe Morris and Michael Musillami.

While attending Milt Hinton's Jazz Workshop at Hunter College in the 1970s, Stein found a kindred spirit in percussionist Kevin Norton, who now runs the Barking Hoop label. In the ...


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