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The Jigsaw Seen - Winterland (2011)
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Something Else!
By Beverly Paterson According to the calendar, winter is just around the corner. To some people that means gloomy skies, the holiday blahs, frostbite and catching colds, while to other people it means mugs of steaming hot chocolate, relaxing by the cozy fireside, beautiful snow capped scenarios and holiday cheer. No matter how you view or experience these particular months, there's no debate you'll give a thumbs up to the Jigsaw Seen's new album Winterland, a season-themed song cycle that ...
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Recent Listening: Fruscella and Moore
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Tony Fruscella & Brew Moore, The 1954 Unissued Atlantic Session (Fresh Sound). Fruscella was an enigmatic trumpeter with a deeply personal style, Moore a tenor saxophonist who once said that anyone who didn't play like Lester Young was wrong. At a time when Dizzy Gillespie's fiery playing was the general model, Fruscella was one of a few young trumpeters who concentrated on tone, lyricism and quiet melodic invention. Others were Don Joseph, Phil Sunkel, Miles Davis and Chet Baker. The ...
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Frank Zappa: Carnegie Hall 4-CD Set
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JamBase
ZAPPA FAMILY TRUST TO ISSUE UNRELEASED 4-DISC LIVE ALBUM RECORDED 40 YEARS AGO TODAY AT CARNEGIE HALL Forty years ago today on October 11, 1971, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention performed two marathon, full-length shows at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall. This is your ticket directly to the Vault, and to four CDs of the music made then. Fans can now have it for the first time since it was first performed live by FZ with Mark ...
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Dave Douglas & So Percussion - GPS, Vol 3: "Bad Mango"
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Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
The third volume of the Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS), Bad Mango features Dave Douglas with So Percussion. From the first notes of the opening track One More News—originally recorded on Witness [2001]—it's clear that this session yielded a sound unlike any other in the expansive Dave Douglas discography. Pairing his plaintive trumpet with a myriad of percussion instruments including marimba, drum set, glockenspiel, and a whole host of nontraditional percussion like musical saw, toy bells, shruti box, crotales, et al, ...
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Frank Carlberg's Piano and Compositions Come to the Forefront in "Uncivilized Ruminations"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Frank Carlberg is not just a new jazz sort of fellow. He's doing something actually rather new. If you start with the sort of angular abstractions Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi used to do, you get a stepping off point for where the music on Uncivilized Ruminations (RPR Red Piano Records) begins. Unfortunately the graphic design of the CD jacket makes whatever is on it unreadable, a too common result when there is no art director around to tell you ...
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Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris - Broken Partials (Not Two, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist and guitarist Joe Morris have been long time compatriots on the improvised music scene, but I believe that may be the first time they have recorded in the duet configuration ( at least with Morris sticking strictly to bass.) It works very well, with Morris adhering to acoustic bass and Shipp's wonderful keyboard technique that makes use of the entire instrument. The music develops in a an eight part suite of improvised music, occasionally developing ...
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Peter Gabriel - New Blood (2011)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Somewhere out there, music fans cower in fear. The day has come again: Peter Gabriel returns with yet another album of orchestral covers! But fear not. This time he's covering his own songs. Luckily on New Blood the results are far, far more pleasing to long-time fans than his previous effort, last year's Scratch My Back, which saw Gabriel taking on a number of current and older favorite songs and, as the title would suggest, the artists ...
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Yellow Dubmarine: Abbey Dub
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JamBase
YELLOW DUBMARINE RELEASE ABBEY DUB A REGGAE RENDITION OF CLASSIC BEATLES ALBUM ABBEY ROAD 42 years and a day after the most legendary band of all time released a classic album that would be their swan song, another band presents their re-imagining of that same recording. It was September 26, 1969 when The Beatles gave the world the legendary Abbey Road. On September 27, 2011, Yellow Dubmarine offered up their stunning reggae re-make, Abbey Dub. Yellow Dubmarine's Abbey Dub is ...
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