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Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at I.U.C.C. 11/26/1978

Read "Live at I.U.C.C. 11/26/1978" reviewed by Danen Jobe


In November of 1978, Horace Tapscott had some advantages that any other iconoclastic, idealistic, idiosyncratic jazz bandleader would greatly desire. For one, he was approached by a socially minded professional gambler named Tom Albach about starting a label (Nimbus West) devoted to Tapscott's music, allowing complete creative control, never expecting to make a dime of profit, and providing living money to keep the band going. Another was a steady gig in the only area in the nation that Tapscott truly ...

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TEST and Roy Campbell: TEST and Roy Campbell

Read "TEST and Roy Campbell" reviewed by John Sharpe


This archival recording does what it says on the tin, capturing trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr. (who died in 2014) with free jazz quartet TEST in a high octane live date from April 1999. These five are masters of the genre. TEST were the archetypal New York City underground band, who could be found in their heyday busking on the subway, as well as igniting the downtown clubs. Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter and reedman Sabir Mateen provide the firepower, while bassist Matthew ...

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TEST with Roy Campbell: Live at The Hinton House

Read "Live at The Hinton House" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


More exquisite madness from Brooklyn's barn burning free jazz label 577 Records, home to the free and the brave. This time it's a hard core NY borough blowout recorded live in April 1999 that cantankerously and vividly chronicles the only known performance of the late, free/avant, Harlem/NoBro legend, trumpeterRoy Campbell. Unrestrained, Campbell raises the roof with a loosely defined autonomous collective of downtown alchemists, namely drummer Tom Bruno, bassist Matt Heyner and the rioting reeds of Sabir Mateen ...

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Sabir Mateen - Silvia Bolognesi: Holidays in Siena

Read "Holidays in Siena" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'incontro tra contrabbasso e sax di potrebbe definire un topos che si è celebrato in modo più o meno ricorrente nella storia del jazz moderno. Un tipo di formazione con molti limiti forse, ma che Braxton, Shepp, Holland e altri hanno affrontato alla ricerca di una gamma immensa di geometrie possibili. In questo caso è tra dolci sinuosità e inevitabili contrasti che si snoda questo riuscitissimo abbraccio, immortalato al Teatro dei Varii di Colle Val D'Elsa, nel dicembre del 2010. ...

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Sabir Mateen: Urdla XXX

Read "Urdla XXX" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Si apre con una sorta di apotropaica evocazione di canto e campanellini - epifania del musicista nel cuore dell'evento - l'intensa performance solitaria che Sabir Mateen è stato invitato a tenere nell'ottobre del 2008, nell'ambito delle celebrazioni del trentesimo anniversario della fondazione del laboratorio di stampa e incisione Urdla a Villleurbanne, vicino Lione. Musicista la cui sensibilità è testimoniata da una intensa partecipazione a progetti come il quartetto Test o alcuni progetti di William Parker, Mateen dispiega, lungo gli oltre ...

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Sabir Mateen: URDLA XXX

Read "URDLA XXX" reviewed by John Sharpe


It must have been some surprise when Sabir Mateen, already playing, strode into the centre of URDLA, the Parisian engraving workshop where a hundred guests were convened for a celebration of its 30th anniversary. Mateen had been commissioned as a special guest to appear on the stroke of midnight. Solo concerts are not the rite of passage they were for a saxophonist back in the 1970s test bed of free jazz creativity, and their infrequency means it still takes a ...

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Sabir Mateen: Other Places Other Spaces

Read "Other Places Other Spaces" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sia benedetta ogni documentazione dell’attività di Sabir Mateen, in particolare quando si tratta di materiale pubblicato a nome suo. Anche perchè in oltre un trentennio di carriera non è che abbondino le pubblicazioni firmate dal polistrumentista di Philadelphia. Il periodo della formazione sulla West Coast, sotto la tutela di Horace Tapscott; l’approdo a New York alla fine degli anni ottanta; i raid nella metropolitana coi Test a fianco di Daniel Carter; la spalla offerta a William Parker in più di ...


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