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Negative Press Project + Friction Quartet: Cycles 1
by Jack Bowers
Cycles 1, the fifth recording by the San Francisco Bay-area Negative Press Project, is chamber jazz of the highest order, neatly canvassing a dozen creative and colorful themes by the group's co-leaders, pianist Ruthie Dineen (nine) and bassist Andrew Lion (three). The octet is ably supported on every number by the Friction Quartet, whose elegant strings lend an aura of courtliness without discord or intrusion. The session is marked by a deep feeling of purpose, amplified by the ...
Continue ReadingCarl Grubbs 4tet: Stepping Around the Giant
by Derek Taylor
Carl Grubbs is living, breathing proof of the adage “live isn’t fair.” Like so many of his peers, he’s largely fallen through the cracks over the years- a casualty of the public ambivalence that usually signals the lot of creative improvising musicians. But it wasn’t always so; back in the early Seventies with his brother Earl he made a valiant push for the big time through a contract on the Muse label. Three records later the debilitating weight of commerical ...
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