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Article: Jazz in Long Form

He Blinded Me With Jazz: The Surprising Jazz DNA in the Music of Thomas Dolby

Read "He Blinded Me With Jazz: The Surprising Jazz DNA in the Music of Thomas Dolby" reviewed by Kurt Ellenberger


I. Introduction Thomas Dolby is one of the most prominent and recognizable synth pop artists of the '80s. His carefully crafted brand as the bookish, bespeckled “mad synthesizer scientist" was perfect for the time period when MTV emerged as a dominant force in the music industry. MTV made the music video an essential part of an ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Melbourne band The Outernet, Richard Hallebeek, Eelco van Zanten, Richard D Ruttenberg and Garaj Mahal

Read "Melbourne band The Outernet, Richard Hallebeek, Eelco van Zanten, Richard D Ruttenberg and Garaj Mahal" reviewed by Len Davis


Get ready for another dynamic week of cutting-edge fusion sounds! From Melbourne, Australia, The Outernet returns with more explosive grooves and powerhouse performances. From the Netherlands, guitarist Richard Hallebeek with some fluid melodic sounds on his new single Looping Forward and Eelco van Zanten a student of Richards with his new single. Norwegian keyboardist Frode Andresen ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Simon Phillips, John Patitucci, Niacin and Alex Machacek

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Simon Phillips, John Patitucci, Niacin, Marc Norgaard, and Alex Machacek. MVP with Allan Holdsworth and Frank Gambale. Japanese band Next Order, guitarist Willie Oteri, Klaus Doldinger, bassist's Tetsuo Sakurai and Peter Muller.Playlist Simon Phillips “Indian Summer" from Symbiosis (Lipstick) 00:00 John Patitucci “A Better Mousetrap" from On The Corner (GRP) 07:20 Niacin “Hell To ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Off Da Hook – Or, You Got Rock in My Jazz

Read "Off Da Hook – Or, You Got Rock in My Jazz" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


We all know about fusion--the (sometime unholy) union of jazz and rock that tried to find a new audience for instrumentalists in the 1970s. But there have always been, well, odder experiments with electricity in jazz, more like intrusions of the rock world than integrations, and we look at four rather varied examples in this here ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kozo Suganuma, Robert Walter, Snarky Puppy and Allan Holdsworth

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Drummers Kozo Suganuma and Senri Kawaguchi. Funky sounds from Robert Walter and Snarky Puppy. Allan Holdsworth, Jimmy Haslip, Alan Pasqua and Chad Wackerman from Proto Cosmos, plus Virgil Donati, Alex Lofoco and CAB. Playlist Into The Night “War Elephant" from Into The Night (Arpeggio Musicl) 00:00 Robert Walter “Security" from Better Feathers (Royal Potato ...

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News: Obituary

Ian Carr: 1933 - 2009

Ian Carr: 1933 - 2009

The British trumpet player and author Ian Carr died in London on Wednesday 25th February aged 75. He began his musical career in Newcastle in a band led by his brother Mike. Among the younger musicians he played with were John McLaughlin, Eric Burdon and Alan Price. When he moved to London he co-led a quintet ...


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