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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 ...

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Album Review

Keith Tippett: Blueprint

Read "Blueprint" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 5, 2004

Following the sound and fury of his fifty-piece big band Centipede's '71 recording, Septober Energy (reissued in '00), British pianist Keith Tippett scaled things down for Blueprint , released in '72 and also recently reissued on CD by England's BGO records. Tippett had already created some waves with his first two releases, You Are Here... I Am There ('69) and Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening ('71), both larger ensemble works with the involvement of some of the period's ...

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Album Review

Amalgam: Innovation

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by Rex Butters
November 2, 2004

In the early '60s Trevor Watts and John Stevens initiated the long-lived free jazz association that became known as Amalgam. Their extended tenure altered Euro jazz and improvised music forever, following their first recording in '69. Tangent records released their third album, Innovation , in 1974, after their Play Blackwell and Higgins set and several sessions recorded with trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Weirdly saddled with a “jazz rock" reputation with the addition of guitarist Keith Rowe after these sessions, the Innovation ...

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Compare & Contrast

Rendell-Carr & Keith Tippett: Ever Increasing Circles

by Nic Jones
September 1, 2004

In the early 1960s things were happening. In that seminal decade, the allure of which remains so great that people not even born at the time can feel vicarious nostalgia for it, both British and European jazz produced instrumentalists with the ability and know-how to establish themselves as distinctive voices within an ever-widening continuum of jazz. Of the three musicians discussed here Don Rendell has the longest pedigree, having been a member of the band Stan Kenton employed on his ...

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Album Review

Paul Rutherford/Julie Tippett / Keith Tippett / Paul Rogers: Rottor: The First Full Turn

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1998

Paul Rutherford is the great innovator of the trombone: his Gentle Harm of The Bourgeoisie is described justly (on the CD sleeve of this disc) as “the definitive solo trombone record." On Rottor: The First Full Turn Rutherford is joined by vocalist Julie Tippett (who has brought along her thumb piano), her husband, pianist Keith Tippett (who also plays bells and maracas), and bassist Paul Rogers. Those who missed Gentle Harm can also get a taste of Rutherford's solo technique ...