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Peter Brotzmann and Andrew Cyrille - Andrew Cyrille Meets Peter Brotzmann in Berlin (FMP, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
A live meeting between multi-reedist Peter Brotzmann and drummer and percussionist Andrew Cryille seems like a match made in free-jazz heaven. Recorded live at a Free Music Symposium in Berlin in 1982, this album lives up to its potential with strong, powerful playing and potent, thoughtful interplay between the musicians. The opening track “Wolf Whistle" is a massive side long slab of free improvisation, with the two musicians bobbing and weaving like fine boxers, looking for space before finally locking ...
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The Bennie Maupin Ensemble - Penumbra (2006)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Back in the dark ages (read: before the Internet) I spent a fair amount of time searching out new music by paying very close attention to the listings of my local public and classical radio stations. On any given week night there might be broadcasts of solo works, string quartets, and all manner of chamber ensemble and full-on orchestral madness. That was how I discovered David Ocker. Specifically, Ocker's solo bass clarinet version of the 4th movement ...
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Neo - Neoclassico (2011)
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Something Else!
At the very moment I was waxing poetic last year over Italian whack jazz trio Neo's last album Water Resistance, the band was in a studio in Chicago recording their next album. Neoclassico, as it became known as, was finally released stateside last month on Cuneiform's Wayside imprint, and it's been a album well worth the wait. Their brand of off-the-cliff jazz is the kind that always puts a smile on my face because they navigate through impossible progressions in ...
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Acoustic guitars of Escoto & Simon blend together with grace and eloquence on new album
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Lauren Rogers
Beauty never fades in the sounds of music, especially when each part blends together with such grace and eloquence as they do on Collage, the new album from Escoto & Simon. The New York-based duo consists of guitarists Martin Simon and Astor Escoto, both of whom swim in synch with the sumptuous melodies of their acoustic instruments. Embellishing their laid-back jazz style with touches of samba, classical, and flamenco music, Escoto & Simon deliver a spellbinder of a record. The ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Wilco - The Whole Love (2011)
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Something Else!
Salon writer Touré misses monoculture. This isn't the monoculture of a Starbucks every 1 1/2 miles, bookending the Walmart and the Lowes. Obviously, that monoculture hasn't gone anywhere. No, this is what Touré refers to as “Massive Music Moments," when a release is so huge that it dominates the culture. The examples given—Nevermind, Purple Rain, Thriller, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back—were popular, or at least well-known, with a large segment of the public. Their popularity ...
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The Beatles to Release Early Recordings for 50th Anniversary
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JamBase
THE BEATLES WITH TONY SHERIDAN: FIRST RECORDINGS: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 8 50 years after The Beatles first entered a recording studio, the complete collection of those tracks will be available for the first time in North America when The Beatles with Tony Sheridan: First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition, is released to stores November 8 on Time Life. The 2-CD set comes with a specially-designed book that is a historical trove of concert and intimate photos taken by Astrid ...
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Delmark Records: New Jazz and Blues Releases for the fall
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Kevin Johnson
Available October 25, 2011 Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms Spacer Delmark CD (DE 2012) / LP (DF 2012) Sun Rooms is Jason Adasiewicz's three year old trio featuring Jason (vibraphone), Mike Reed (drums) and Nate McBride (bass). Their debut record Sun Rooms (Delmark 593) was named by the New York Times (Ben Ratliff) as one of the Top 10 Pop and Jazz Records of 2010. Spacer was written in the winter of 2011 and slowly shaped through a month long residency ...
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Grammy-Winner Clare Fischer Releases Albums 50 and 51
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claris dodge
The Clare Fischer Voices...And Sometimes Instruments and Continuum with The Clare Fischer Big Band Produced and Directed by Brent Fischer Grammy-winning American jazz composer, arranger and pianist Dr. Clare Fischer has devotees in all corners of the world. This month his fans get to enjoy two new albums from the prolific artist, his 50th solo album, The Clare Fischer Voices ...And Sometimes Instruments and his 51st, titled: Continuum with The Clare Fischer Big Band. On the vocal album, ...And Sometimes ...
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