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Giovanni di Domenico / Peter Jacquemyn / Chris Corsano: A Little Bit Off The Top

Read "A Little Bit Off The Top" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 5, 2016

Three adept protagonists in the free improv arena assemble in a multinational gathering on A Little Bit Off The Top. Both Italian pianist Giovanni Di Domenico and Belgian bassist Peter Jacquemyn are active on the Brussels scene, while American drummer Chris Corsano shares experience with the pianist of hook ups with the likes of guitarist Jim ...

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Arashi

By Akira Sakata

Label: Trost Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Arashi; Ondo No Huna-Uta; Dora; Fukushima No Ima.

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Konstrukt & Joe McPhee: If You Have Time

Read "If You Have Time" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 25, 2015

There was a time when free jazz was a mysteriously strange and exotic beast, a music that evoked the “what did I just hear?" response. Today's jazz snob may quote the motto of the rock band Jane's Addiction and tell you “nothing's shocking." And that may be true. That is, if one's ears are not open ...

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Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano: All The Ghosts At Once

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by Mark Corroto
July 18, 2015

Today's hypothesis states that all free jazz improvisation demands the musicians maintain the music's vigor like a juggler, to all appearances, keeping all the balls in the air at once. Proof of this theory is the opening piece “Train Track" from alto saxophonist Mette Rasmussen and drummer Chris Corsano's release All The Ghosts At Once. The ...

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Jyderup Accordeon Traef 2015: Meeting of the Master Improvisers

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 24, 2015

Jyderup Accordeon Traef Jyderup, Denmark June 14-21, 2015 Where do you find some of the greatest improvisers in music today? The answer, in a folk high school in the middle of a forest near a small Danish town called Jyderup, seems like a bad joke. Nevertheless, it is the truth ...

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Last Exit: Iron Path

Read "Iron Path" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 8, 2015

In saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's interview memoir We Thought We Could Change The World (Wolke Verlag Hofheim, 2014) he spoke about meeting Sonny Sharrock in Berlin 1969, when the guitarist was working for Herbie Mann. Brotzmann never forgot the meeting, and when bassist Bill Laswell conceived the idea of Last Exit in the mid-1980s, Sharrock was on ...

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Konstrukt and William Parker: Live At NHKM

Read "Live At NHKM" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2015

Let me propose the notion that American poet Emily Dickinson was a free jazz fan. Sure, you have to look past the fact that she died in 1886, when Buddy Bolden was but nine years old. But consider her words: “The worthlessness of Earthly things/The Ditty is that Nature Sings -/And then -enforces their delight/Til Synods ...

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Akira Sakata, Johan Berthling, Paal Nilssen-Love: Arashi

by AAJ Staff
January 12, 2015

Furia transgenerazionale e intercontinentale quella condivisa dal sassofonista giapponese Akira Sakata (70 anni a febbraio) con Johan Berthling e Paal Nilssen-Love, basso e batteria che chi conosce un po' le meraviglie del jazz scandinavo ormai ha imparato a considerare “di famiglia." Figura storica del free nipponico, Sakata è musicista che può piacere o meno, ...

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Live at Cafe Oto

By Akira Sakata

Label: Clamshell
Released: 2014
Track listing: One untitled track (39: 58)

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Iruman

By Akira Sakata

Label: Mbari Musica
Released: 2014
Track listing: Seijaku No Ichimai/A Piece of Silence; Kousa No Odori/Yellow Sand Blowing from China; Suiren No Saku Huruike/Lotus Blossom in an Old Pond; Yamadera Ni Kikoyuru Koe/Voice from a Temple in the Deep Mountain; Moe I’/ud I; Tanbo Ni Mizu Ga Hairu/Water Coming Into Rice Field in the Spring; Sukiyazukuri No Tatazumai/The Peaceful Atmosphere of a Wood Sukiya- style Temple; Hachi To Ohisama/The Bee and the Sunshine; Papiruma; Moe II/Bud II.