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Michael Mason and the Exploratory Ensemble: Signal

by Jerry D'Souza
March 13, 2004

Surprises are welcome, if they are pleasant ones. So is Michael Mason. This is his fifth release, and it is better late than never to make his acquaintance...Mason, who wrote all the tunes except one, shows a fair sense for what makes the pulse tick. His main approach is to write sketches rather than whole pieces, but he gives the musicians room to evolve and the direction in which to mould them. He keeps “Sir James” all to ...

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Michael Mason: Angel On Fire

Read "Angel On Fire" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2000

On December 1, 1958 fire broke out at Our Lady Of Angels school in Chicago. Ninety-two children and three Catholic nuns were killed and hundreds of others injured in the fire. Michael Mason a survivor of this tragedy is besides a talented Musician, a firefighter in the Chicago area. Mason and The Exploratory Ensemble present this tone poem to that tragic day and to the survivors. Like John Coltrane’s “Alabama,” this document is a beautiful statement assembled from so much ...