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Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas and Lee Noyes - As Birds (Re:konstrukt, 2011) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Paul Acquaro Though I don't have the numbers on this, I'm fairly certain that there are more bass clarinets in the hands of jazz musicians then before. Lots of variables here to account for, so don't judge my research, just enjoy the hypothesis. Jason Stein, Louis Sclavis and Lucien Dubuis come to mind with little thought, and now do does Duplant/Chagas/Noyes. Just released as a download from re:konstrut, 'as birds' is described in the marketing as “Some truly free, ...
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Bud Shank's Last Recording: Jake Fryer's "In Good Company"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
If there is still a west coast kind of jazz it's because players associated with the west coast still play music. That's obvious, of course, but even in its heyday the west coast style covered a broad group of stylistic tendencies, from the cool of a Chet Baker to the heat of Hampton Hawes. Bud Shank leaned toward to cooler alto style in his first years, making some marvelous records. Sometime in the '70s his style changed and he began ...
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Woody Shaw - United (1981, Reissue)
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Something Else!
By Nick Deriso A new reissue series focusing on turn-of-the-1980s sides by the underappreciated Woody Shaw doesn't consistently illustrate why he's sometimes considered the last of the true innovators at the trumpet. But United certainly does. Shaw, playing in his last date as a leader for Columbia Records, marked his return to the purely straight-ahead style with a group that managed to keep up with his restless focus on innovation. If only just barely sometimes. United, long out of print, ...
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MMW to Celebrate 20th Anniversary with 20 New Tracks
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JamBase
PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW FOR BUNDLE OF 20 TRACKS Medeski Martin & Wood will celebrate their 20th anniversary by releasing 20 new songs. 2 new digital tracks will be released monthly starting on 3/29 until the end of the year. Music Today is taking pre-orders for the bundle of 20 tracks for $9.90 through 3/29. Individual tracks can be purchased for $.99 on iTunes, Music Today, and other digital retailers starting on 3/29. Click here to pre-order the bundle of tracks. ...
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The Engines - Wire and Brass (Okkadisk, 2010) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Joe Higham From what I read on The Engines website this album was recorded live in 2008 at the Hungry Brain (Chicago), shame it's taken so long to get the CD out. So here's your chance to get to hear the second helping (*) of The Engines, a group coming from the windy city, made up of Jeb Bishop: trombone; Dave Rempis: saxophones; Nate McBride: bass; Tim Daisy: drums. Rempis and Daisy probably need no real introduction to our ...
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Recent Listening: Jeffrey Snedeker's French Horn
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Jeffrey Snedeker, Minor Returns (JS). Snedeker is a rarity, a first-chair symphony French horn artist who understands jazz time, phrasing and feeling. In settings from quartet through big band to 41-piece string orchestra, he pays homage to the horn's role in jazz. Snedeker solos on pieces associated with the music's handful of French horn heroes, including Julius Watkins, David Amram, Willie Ruff and John Graas. Among his colleagues is the perennial French horn poll winner Tom Varner, one of the ...
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Sid Griffin & the Coal Porters Plan Rare U.S. West Coast Foray
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conqueroo
British alt-bluegrass band fronted by Long Ryders founder and author Sid Griffin will perform at the Stagecoach Festival plus San Francisco and three L.A. shows LONDON, U.K.—Musician/writer/author/broadcaster Sid Griffin rose to fame in Los Angeles as leader of Island recording artists the Long Ryders, one of the first bands of the alt-rock era to incorporate the influences of Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Byrds. Yet in recent years, he's made his home in London, where he ...
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Jacob Young/Roy Powell/Jarle Vespestad Release CD Anthem
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Michael Ricci
Organ jazz for today. Brooding, melancholic, lyrical, with intense ensemble playing. This collectively lead trio was born a little over a year ago as a project bringing together three of Norway's leading jazz musicians on Hammond B3 organ, drums and guitar. Jarle Vespestad and Jacob Young belong to the new generation of Norwegian musicians on ECM records. Roy Powell (UK) lives in Oslo with a background in British cutting-edge jazz having played with the Creative Jazz Orchestra and leading American ...
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