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Olie Brice Quartet: All It Was
by Mark Corroto
Bassist Olie Brice wears the title of Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside with remarkable ease. Equally adept in free improvisation and structured composition, Brice moves fluidly between extremes. His work with improvisers such as Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders on Somersaults (Two Rivers, 2015), or with Paul Dunmall on The Laughing Stone (Confront, 2023), exemplifie his outside approach. Meanwhile, his release Fire Hills (West Hill, 2022), where he composed material for both trio and octet, showcases his talents on the more structured ...
Continue ReadingRuth Goller: Skyllumina
by Chris May
The Italian-born, British-based bassist and composer Ruth Goller has been rattling jazz's cage since 2007, the year she joined Acoustic Ladyland. The band was in the vanguard of what became known as “jazz punk," although its sound was closer to metal than classic punk, and the lineup included tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and drummer Sebastian Rochford. Four years later, Acoustic Ladyland disbanded and Goller and Wareham morphed into Melt Yourself Down, where they were joined by tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings ...
Continue ReadingMoss Freed / Union Division: Micromotives
by John Sharpe
A question any composer for improvisers must face is whether they can create something more worthwhile than what they might come up with if left to themselves. It can be a tough call. For some, such as Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra or Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, the ultimate conclusion was no, while for others such as Anthony Braxton and Barry Guy the answer has been far less clear cut. British guitarist Moss Freed falls somewhere between the two ...
Continue ReadingRick Simpson: Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited
by Ian Patterson
It is one thing to cover a rock song, after all, jazz musicians have been doing that since The Beatles, but few have tackled an entire album by a rock band. The target of UK pianist/composer Rick Simpson's admiration is Radiohead's Kid A (Parlophone, 2000), an album that provoked wildly divergent critical response in its day. Some lambasted the electronic-influenced follow-up to the hugely successful, hook-laden OK Computer (Parlophone, 1997) as pretentious, incoherent and alienating. Others saw it as bold, ...
Continue ReadingWill Glaser: Climbing In Circles
by Chris May
Women musicians seem more inclined to describe their albums as “playful" than their male counterparts. We need not spend time speculating on the reasons for that here. Playful, however, is the word that best sums up this delightful trio album by two generations of male musicians. Young bloods drummer Will Glaser and saxophonist Matthew Herd have been playing together since leaving London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2014. Pianist Liam Noble has been lighting up the British scene ...
Continue ReadingMatt Glaser Wins Prestigious American String Teachers Association Award
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Berklee Media Relations
The American String Teachers Association (ASTA) awarded Berklee's Matt Glaser the prestigious Artist Teacher Award at its annual convention, held this year in Providence, RI. Glaser is the first non-classical string teacher to win the award, which is considered the ASTA's highest honor. Past recipients include Joseph Szigeti, Pablo Casals, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Dorothy DeLay, and Ivan Galamian. “Although I certainly do not deserve this, I am very happy to accept it metonymically on behalf of this incredible community ...
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RealNetworks Chief Glaser Steps Down
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PC Magazine
RealNetworks chief executive and founder Rob Glaser has stepped down, RealNetworks said Wednesday. Glaser, who founded Progressive Networks (later RealNetworks) in 1994, said he would “step down from day-to-day operations," remaining as chairman. He will be replaced by Bob Kimball, Real's general counsel and vice president of corporate business development. Kimball said that he would work to transform Real into a more “focused" company, probably hinting at spinoffs or other divestitures. “After nearly 16 years, I've decided it's time for ...
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MPAA Pounds Realnetworks' Glaser on Witness Stand
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All About Jazz
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, on the witness stand for the second day in a lawsuit challenging his DVD copying software, was hammered by the motion picture studios’ attorney questioning his earlier testimony. On Tuesday, Glaser testified that it would be “relatively easy” for the Hollywood studios to encrypt rental videos differently than those sold to consumers. Glaser uttered that proposal as a way to prevent consumers from copying rented DVDs with the RealDVD software product that is the subject of ...
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