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News: Recording

Bob Gluck's Exceptional Piano Trio Outing: "Returning"

April 30, 2011

Bob Gluck goes his own way. He is an excellent pianist, with harmonic and melodic ideas to spare. His recent Returning (FMR 292-0710) finds him in formidable company. Drummer Dean Sharp has the sensitivity and big ears to thrive in the intimate free-oriented trio setting. Michael Bisio has basso profundo status these days. He has become ...

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News: Recording

Julian Lage - Gladwell (2011)

April 29, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Don't get me wrong, I love jazz guitarists who derive their inspiration from guys like Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Pat Metheny, but it's so refreshing to hear a new guitarist come along who excels by taken the road less traveled. That's former child prodigy guitarist Julian Lage, who seems to be ...

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News: Music Industry

Rethink Music Recap: From Board Rooms to Ballrooms, Missing Connections

April 29, 2011

In some ways, music industry conferences are all the same. Over the course of several keynotes, panel discussions, and presentations, a gallery of experts, industry veterans, and insiders discuss topics related to sales, licensing, touring, and copyrights while subtly selling themselves. At the inaugural Rethink Music, a large portion of the audience seemed to hunger for ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Grace Slick

April 29, 2011

Grace Slick was Jefferson Airplane's lead singer. But she was much more than that. In the history of rock, her iconic voice, with its passing-gear force, stinging vibrato and flower-power passion marked a turning point in the music. Last week I interviewed Grace on a range of topics by phone. My Q&A with the San Francisco ...

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News: Interview

Lucky Thompson in Person

April 29, 2011

The logical followup to the piece below about Chris Byars' hero Lucky Thompson is a piece by Thompson. Here's a film from Paris in 1959 at the Blue Note. The rhythm section is Bud Powell, piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Jimmy Gourley, guitar; Kenny Clarke, drums. The compostion is Dizzy Gillespie's and Charlie Parker's “Anthropology." The video ...

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News: Recording

Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls vs. the Forces of Evil **** (Naim, 2011)

April 29, 2011

By Paul Acquaro I hadn't heard Ted Sirotas work before digging into “Vs. the Forces of Evil," but just a glance through the personnel indicated I was in good company and the Latin groove of the opener “Grendel"—reminiscent of Return to Forever ala Light as a Feather—that came on when I clicked play on the iPod, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Bassist Avery Sharpe Performing on Cape Cod on Saturday, April 30, with Bart Weismann Jazz Group

April 29, 2011

Master bassist Avery Sharpe is performing with the Bart Weismann Jazz Group at the Grand Cru Wine Bar & Grill in the Cape Codder Restort in Hyannis, Cape Cod, on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 11:00 p.m. Sharpe spent over 20 years playing with the McCoy Tyner Quintet, and has performed with Art Blakley, John Blake, ...

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News: Recording

Matthew Shipp - 4D (2010)

April 29, 2011

By Mark Saleski Over the years I have spent many pen scrawls, pencil swipes, and keystrokes trying to describe what it is about 'out' music that moves me so much. Sometimes it's pretty easy, especially if you take the case of somebody like saxophone terrorist Peter Brotzmann. The man plays with so much force that it's ...

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News: Recording

Bill Frisell - Sign of Life (Savoy Jazz, 2011)

April 29, 2011

Guitarist and composer Bill Frisell is a polymath who works in many different contexts, but like fellow traveller Charlie Haden (have they ever recorded together?) the traditional vernacular music of the United States, namely country music, bluegrasss, folk and blues lie closest to his heart. This album of mostly short vignettes was recorded with his 858 ...

News: Recording

Elliott Caine Sextet Live on "Hippie Chicks" CD

April 29, 2011

Despite the psychedelic title (Hippie Chicks On Acid)(Wondercap 07006) and the tongue- in-cheek cover art, this CD documents a modern hard bop sextet date shading into energy territory (something like Lee Morgan in the Lighthouse period). Trumpeter Elliott Caine has that extroverted, big brassy sound of the Navarro-Brown through Morgan-Shaw school. His sextet has notable other ...