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Album Review

Selwyn Lissack: Friendship Next of Kin

Read "Friendship Next of Kin" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
February 28, 2007

South African drummer Selwyn Lissack returned to the New York jazz scene for the first time in over thirty years this past December, playing a one-nighter at the Stone to celebrate the reissue of Friendship Next of Kin (1969), his only album as a leader--and an underground classic. Friendship is an example of the evolving musical exploration of the era; each tune on the original album took up an entire side and defined a kind of free ...

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Album Review

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

Read "Which Way Now" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
October 29, 2006

Cuneiform has unearthed another gem from the '70s British jazz scene in Which Way Now. Bassist Harry Miller was one of the staples of that era, and on this performance from November of 1975, he shows just why. The band here was the original lineup of Isipingo, and while there is a structure to the music, the door to each player's perspective is left wide open. That is the way Miller preferred to write, placing no holds on improvisation. The ...

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Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

Read "Which Way Now" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
August 12, 2006

The remarkably large and intersecting jazz and progressive rock community of late-'60s and early-'70s England is enough to give any discographer nightmares. But within that group a few key players came together more often than most, including a contingent which had escaped South Africa's apartheid. Harry Miller was one such artist, an in-demand bassist who appeared on albums by King Crimson, saxophonist Elton Dean's Ninesence and pianist Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath. Miller is underrepresented as a leader, so Which ...

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Extended Analysis

The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson: Volume One 1969-1974

by John Kelman
December 11, 2004

Of all the groups to emerge from the late '60s-early '70s heyday of British Progressive Rock (capitals fully intended), no group has reinvented itself more frequently and, perhaps, more rapidly than King Crimson. As time has gone on the group's ostensible leader Robert Fripp has refashioned the group through periods of high melodrama to nuevo metal and just about everything in between. Until recently, new fans who wanted an overview of the band had to satisfy themselves with the 4-CD ...