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From the Stacks: Pico's 2011 Stacks, Volume 2
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron When I first started the Stacks series last year, I had two formatting rules about it: each artist was to be allotted one paragraph each and there must be at least six albums examined. I'm bending both rules this time, as only five new releases will get a look, and the single long paragraph gets broken up into two, somewhat smaller ones. With one exception, these are 2011 releases, but that exception was made for an ...
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Martin Lutz Group Releases "It's Swing - Not Rocket Science!"
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Michael Ricci
After a four year recording hiatus, the Martin Lutz Group has released It's Swing, Not Rocket Science!, the successor to the Danish Music Award winning album Where Are The Trumpets?. With the new album Martin Lutz Group invites the listener along for a journey through a unique landscape of moods and styles all held together by the special sound of the band and the love and flair of its leader for simple, singable and touching melodies. The album presents five ...
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Mark Applebaum and the Metaphysics of Notation
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Mark Applebaum has entered a new world of his own making with his The Metaphysics of Notation project. It is documented on a recent DVD of the same name (Innova 787). Only a DVD could begin to cover the scope of the project with justice, because the work combines visual art, installation, performance art and musical execution as a totality. The central raison d'etre for the work was the creation of a 70-foot linear pictographic “score" (withseveral hanging mobiles) that ...
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Rob Brown - Unexplained Phenomena (Marge, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Recorded live during the fifteenth Vision Festival in June of 2010, this group features Rob Brown on alto saxophone, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Chris Lightcap on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. They achieve a nice, fresh and appealing free-bop feel, akin to the open ended music recorded by Blue Note Records in the mid 1960's. Opening with “Kite," the music has a fast pace with tart alto saxophone and open accents from the vibes. A nice, fresh sounding vibraphone-bass-drums ...
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One Track Mind: Billy Joel, "Prelude/Angry Young Man" (1976)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron So yesterday I read that Billy Joel has written an autobiography that he plans to publish June 14, called The Book Of Joel, and the book's editor promised that “there is a lot in this book that he has never revealed before." (Ex-Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar's memoirs, incidentally, arrive on March 15, so there's two tales of excessive sex drugs and rock 'n' roll comin' to a Barnes and Noble near you.) The news got ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski There was an article out this past week by Steven Hyden at the Onion A.V. website entitled How long does it take to “get" an album? Interesting stuff. I'm not sure I agree with the whole “professional critic" vs. “regular person" deal, but I can see Mr. Hyden's point when he wonders about the speed at which reviews can show up these days. He was talking about Radiohead's King of Limbs, with reviews being published in very ...
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Brian Setzer: Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!
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JamBase
BRIAN SETZER GIVES BLUEGRASS A ROCKABILLY SPIN ON NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 19 With its forays into bluegrass and traditional jazz, Brian Setzer's new album Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL! (out April 19 on Surfdog Records) has the guitar legend testing new waters and putting his signature Stray Cat stamp on a few instrumental favorites. Setzer wrote six originals and revitalizes five jazz-bluegrass classics—"Blue Moon of Kentucky," “Earl's Breakdown," “Cherokee," “Be-Bop-A-Lula," and “Lonesome Road." Recording each gave Setzer the chance to revisit ...
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Sax and Piano
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
Giovanni Di Domenico & Alexandra Grimal—Ghibli (Sans Bruit, 2011) ****½ By Stef Usually I get the “Sans Bruit" releases by mail (thanks Stéphane), but I couldn't wait, so I bought it right away once it became digitally available, because I am a fan of French saxophonist Alexandra Grimal, who we find back again with Italian pianist Giovanni Di Domenico, who composed most of the pieces of this album. In their previous quartet effort—"Seminare Vento“ - on the same label , ...
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