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News: Recording

Jeff Berlin, "High Standards" (CD Review)

August 27, 2010

Virtuoso electric bassist Jeff Berlin is back with one of his strongest jazz releases ever. Jeff is something of a neighbor, as we both live in the Tampa Bay area, and his Players School of Music is located in Clearwater. I've had the chance to become acquainted with Jeff over the years, through a week-long stint ...

News: Recording

David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (2009)

August 27, 2010

By Tom Johnson I have two amazing young daughters who constantly remind me of the distance in age between them and me. The youngest is too young to ask much, but is plenty busy with toys and books, and being the family comedian. My older daughter, however, she is full of questions and I, while not ...

News: Recording

Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook up - Actionspeak (2010)

August 27, 2010

By Mark Saleski Many years ago, while stuck in traffic during the evening commute, I heard a radio segment on microtonal composer Easely Blackwood. I had read about things like microtones, 24-note equal tunings, and the like, but somehow none of the music had ever made it's way into my ears. Some of the pieces played ...

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News: Recording

Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun (1968)

August 27, 2010

By Pico Note: This is a slightly abridged version of the inaugural article in the long-running “Whack Jazz" series, first appearing on July 11, 2006 in the forerunner site to Something Else Reviews, Da Blog by Daslob. Machine Gun remains to me the gold standard for all thrash-jazz records, one that all other such albums are ...

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News: Opinion

Jung Man with a Horn

August 27, 2010

By Steve Provizer When it comes to Hollywood doing jazz bio-pics, I prefer straight-out hagiography: The Goodman story, the Dorsey Story, the Miller story-they're just the Lindburgh story, Madame Curie and Young Abe Lincoln story with swing music. Fonda coulda been Miller and Stewart could been Lincoln. Greer Garson as Marian McPartland? Anyway, it's a nice, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Kjetil Husebø

by AAJ Staff
August 26, 2010

Meet Kjetil Husebø:35 years-old, from Bergen, Norway, currently living in Oslo. Pianist, synth, electronics, live-sampling, programming. Main project: Optical Substance. Instrument(s):Piano, synth, laptop, samplers, electronics.Teachers and/or influences?Jan Garbarek, Bendik Hofseth, Nils Petter Molvaer, Biosphere, Jan Bang, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset.I knew I wanted to ...

News: Recording

Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music: The Newport Field Recordings

August 26, 2010

TWENTY SEVEN TRACK ALBUM FEATURES FIELD RECORDINGS MADE BETWEEN 1964-1967 Rounder Records has announced the release of Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music: The Newport Field Recordings. Due September 28, this CD release encompasses 27 tracks on one disc, and is comprised of recordings made over the years 1964-67 by Ralph Rinzler, working under the auspices of ...

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News: Event

NYC Royal Family Ball: Soulive, Lettuce, Scofield

August 26, 2010

TALIB KWELI, QUESTLOVE, CHRISTIAN SCOTT, SHADY HORNS, NIGEL HALL ALSO ON THE BILL Soulive will host the 3rd annual New York City Royal Family Ball at Terminal 5 on Saturday, October 2. Joining Soulive's Eric Krasno, Neal and Alan Evans and their Royal Family crew on this evening will be a who's who of modern hip- ...

News: Performance / Tour

ANW 2010-2011

August 26, 2010

Greetings ANW friends! As you know, we successfully concluded our 10th season and kicked off the summer in July with spectacular performances by Nels Cline Singers and On Fillmore. While we're sad that another summer is almost gone, we're incredibly excited to announce the many creative music performances planned for our upcoming season! If you've kept ...

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News: Music Industry

The Shape of ANW to Come

August 26, 2010

As we begin the next ten years of adventurous and exciting programming, Ars Nova Workshop wants to know a little more about you—what you like, what you want to see, and how you want to see it. We have put together a short survey to help us with this goal, and it would mean a lot ...