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Article: Album Review

Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

Read "Perpetual Motion" reviewed by Warren Allen


Donny McCaslin has long been one of the under-sung superstars of the modern tenor saxophone. In recent years, however, as both a leader and sideman with big band leader Maria Schneider, the Mingus Dynasty band, and trumpeter Dave Douglas, McCaslin has gained more and more well-deserved recognition. Drawing off the best of the 21st century's jazz, ...

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Alphabets & Consequences

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Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. Practice Makes Perfect; 02. Old Joe Clark; 03. All the Things You Are; 04. Meaningless; 05. Monk's Dream; 06. Adam Benjamin; 07. Insensatez; 08. Cdg (lax); 09. Chick Corea; 10. Fall; 11. It's Me, O Lord; 12. Ben Wendel; 13. Contrarian; 14. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; 15. Don't Get Around Much Anymore; 16. Karlheinz Und Paul; 17. Shane Endsley; 18. Idealist; 19. You Grew Up; 20. The Star-spangled Banner.

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You Can Have Your Moment

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Teddy Ruxpin (Endsley); 02. Held (Endsley); 03. The Entrepeneur (Benjamin); 04. No Thank You Mr. West (Wendel); 05. You Have an Unheard Message (Benjamin); 06. The Blind (Rastegar); 07. You Can Have Your Moment (Rastegar); 08. Desperation Station (Benjamin); 09. Nerd Mountain (Endsley); 10. Call (Wendel); 11. Unforseen Influences (Benjamin); 12. High Noon (Endsley).

Article: Album Review

Kneebody: You Can Have Your Moment

Read "You Can Have Your Moment" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nel loro debutto su Winter & Winter - Twelve Songs by Charles Ives, con la collaborazione dello straordinario Theo Blackman - avevano sorpreso per l'approccio low-profile, che non lasciava per strada la visionarietà del gruppo, ma la declinava in forme rigorose e severe, a tratti quasi minimaliste. Con You Can Have Your Moment, i Kneebody tornano ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Benjamin: Alphabets & Consequences

Read "Alphabets & Consequences" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Un percorso così impegnativo e fluttuante lo poteva mettere in atto solo uno spirito libero ed intrigante come Adam Benjamin, già componente dei Kneebody, quasi una rock band composta da jazzisti, che - tra l'altro - ha inciso con il cantante tedesco Theo Bleckmann un CD dedicato a Charles Ives. Ciò la dice lunga sulle sfuggenti ...

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News: Event

Dave Douglas & Keystone play to film in NYC

Dave Douglas & Keystone play to film in NYC

On October 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas & Keystone play the Highline Ballroom in New York. More than a concert, this event will feature the East Coast Premiere of the Bill Morrison film, Spark Of Being. Douglas, who composed the soundtrack to the film and has since released a 3CD box set of the same title chronicling ...

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News: Recording

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark Of Being (3CD Box) Release Day

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark Of Being (3CD Box) Release Day

On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of the Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being

Read "Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being" reviewed by Troy Collins


Dave Douglas & KeystoneSpark of BeingGreenleaf Music2010 Trumpet player and composer Dave Douglas has risen from the ranks of tenacious Downtown improvisers to become a leading force in creative mainstream jazz in the past decade. Regularly overshadowing perennial favorite Wynton Marsalis in “Best Trumpeter" polls for the past ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

New Voices: Sarah Manning, John Escreet, Kneebody

Read "New Voices: Sarah Manning, John Escreet, Kneebody" reviewed by J Hunter


Jazz is like the human body. It needs fresh air, constant activity and a steady stream of nutrients to stay hale and hearty. Conversely, if all the genre does is sit in a comfy chair and try to live on what came before, it becomes sedentary, incurious and--ultimately--self destructive. Fortunately, the young keep jazz active and ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark Of Being: Expand

Read "Spark Of Being: Expand" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


Just as summer comes to a close, another great release from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas comes along. Expand is the second part of a trilogy of music, performed by Dave Douglas & Keystone, for the Bill Morrison film Spark of Being (2010). The film and related music bring Mary Shelley's iconic novel, Frankenstein (1818), and the relationship ...


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