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Lee Konitz, with Frank Wunsch - Insight (2011)
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Something Else!
An interesting recording from a period in which Lee Konitz wasn't always all that interesting. The saxophonist appears on these dates, recorded between 1989-94, alone and with German pianist Frank Wunsch. Konitz completists will remember his 1990 Nabel recording S'Nice with Munsch's trio, a graceful if not all that interesting aside. Here, however, we find Konitz returning—during three of the eight tracks found on the new Jazzwerkstatt recording Insight—to the solo format that propelled him past an early-career generalization as ...
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Concord Music Group's Stax Remasters Series Continues on September 13 with Reissues from Rufus Thomas, the Dramatics, and Shirley Brown
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conqueroo
Rufus Thomas's Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown's Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics' Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are fortified with bonus tracks LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In 1968, on the heels of the label's severance from Atlantic Records, Stax Records president Al Bell decided to initiate a massive 28-LP release program that would auger the label's return to the top. The initiative fostered a new generation of Stax hitmakers including the Dramatics and Shirley Brown. And, it proved an artistically ...
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Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra and the Big Box Set
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Bassist, key- boardist, sometimes violinist, composer, bandleader, father-figure of the new thing, Alan Silva cannot be dismissed and will not go away. You don't like avant jazz? That's your business. But to anyone else, he's been a seminal force in the new jazz (now coming onto 50 years of age) from the very beginning, playing bass with the greats, giving the music a personal stamp on his small-group recordings, and leading off and on one of the titanic avant big ...
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Albert Ayler - Love Cry/the Last Album (Impulse!, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc (or mp3 download.) This is one of the most interesting of the bunch, because it contains two relative rarities by the free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. I'll risk the wrath of the cognoscenti by stating up front that I think Love Cry was one of Ayler's finest LP's. Released in 1967 with Ayler on tenor and alto saxophones, Donald Ayler on ...
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One Track Mind: Joe Jackson Trio "Sunday Papers" (Live, 2011)
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Something Else!
Most of the time, good timing is a matter of being lucky instead of being good. For Joe Jackson's very first album Look Sharp! (1979), he wrote and recorded a ditty “Sunday Papers," blasting the British tabloid press with lethal doses of sarcasm. He and his Rain trio (Graham Maby, bass; Dave Houghton, drums) included this song in their rotation while touring last year, and it made it on the official document of that tour, Live Music: Europe 2010, released ...
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Branford Marsalis - Footsteps of Our Fathers (2002)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski You've gotta love what Branford Marsalis is all about. In today's music industry, where creativity is mostly overlooked in favor of bottom-line issues, Branford made a break in advance of this album from his long-time record label (Columbia) to start Marsalis Music. I first heard about Marsalis Music during a lecture (presented by the Seacoast Jazz Society) by former Boston Globe jazz writer Bob Blumenthal. The stated purpose of the label is to present new jazz artists ...
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Daryl Hall: New Solo Album
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JamBase
FIFTH SOLO ALBUM LAUGHING DOWN CRYING OUT SEPTEMBER 27 Legendary singer-songwriter Daryl Hall is set to release his fifth solo studio album, Laughing Down Crying, on September 27 (Verve Forecast). With his iconic soulful vocals, Hall's newest collection feels fresh and current while still maintaining his signature style and songwriting prowess. Hall was joined in the studio by co-producers Greg Bieck (Jennifer Lopez, Destiny's Child, Ricky Martin) and Paul Pesco on the making of this album. Powerhouse producer, the late ...
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The Kris Wanders Outfit - In Remembrance of the Human Race (Not Two, 2011) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Paul Acquaro The four musicians in the Kris Wanders Outfit connect at a level deep below the surface. Their primal collusion results in some dark and earthy improvised music that bares the soul while kicking up some serious dust. Wanders, a tenor saxophonist from the European free jazz scene in the late 1960's has made Australia his base since the late 70s and I swear I hear echoes of the didgeridoo in his playing from time to time. Joining ...
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