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Article: Scumbles

Jazz in a Changing World

Read "Jazz in a Changing World" reviewed by Sammy Stein


Jazz has influenced many other genres of music and, likewise, many other genres have influenced jazz from its very beginning. What is really exciting about the scene at the moment is just how much enrichment it is getting from the rest of the world. It works both ways, of course; jazz musicians from countries which have, ...

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Article: Album Review

Petter Wettre Next Generation: The Social Media Tapes

Read "The Social Media Tapes" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Norwegian saxophonist Petter Wettre is one of the more prominent musicians in Norway's fertile, contemporary jazz scene. He never associated himself with the ECM school of icy, lyrical jazz, and his musical output has always corresponded with American post-bop and free jazz. Wettre also stands in the forefront in pursuit of new means ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Freeform in the U.K.

Read "Freeform in the U.K." reviewed by Sammy Stein


Freeform and improvised jazz is having a hard time at the moment. Venues have to make tough choices between pleasing what is a smaller cohort of customers and bringing new, maybe transient, but paying clients who are attracted by big names, standards and music they know. Customers have less cash in these difficult economic times, so ...

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Practice

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2011

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Article: Live Review

Joe McPhee and Decoy: Cafe Oto, London, October 29, 2011

Read "Joe McPhee and Decoy: Cafe Oto, London, October 29, 2011" reviewed by John Sharpe


Although at an age when many might be happier looking to past glories, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee still seeks new answers to the questions posed by music-making on the fly. Given the success of the solutions proffered in the concert which produced the acclaimed Oto (Bo Weavil, 2009), it was only a matter of time before the ...

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Article: Live Review

Peter Brotzmann Trio at Cafe Oto, London

Read "Peter Brotzmann Trio at Cafe Oto, London" reviewed by John Sharpe


Peter Brotzmann, John Edwards, Steve Noble Cafe Oto London January 30, 2010 As the crowd gathered outside north London's Cafe Oto waiting for the doors to open, a solitary figure stood spotlit under a streetlamp just up the road. German saxophone iconoclast Peter Brotzmann was savoring a moment of ...

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Article: Live Review

Joe McPhee at Cafe Oto, London

Read "Joe McPhee at Cafe Oto, London" reviewed by John Sharpe


Joe McPhee Cafe Oto London, England December 11, 2009 When the eerie vocalized wail first manifested itself, the audience was left looking for the source. But it quickly became apparent that, even though his facial expression didn't betray the burden, saxophonist Joe McPhee was generating the noise at ...

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Live At Cafe Oto

Label: Bo'Weavil
Released: 2009
Track listing: Spellbound; Recoil.

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Article: Album Review

Alan Wilkinson / John Edwards / Steve Noble: Live At Cafe Oto

Read "Live At Cafe Oto" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


The audacity of free jazz is its tightrope balance between chaos and control, music almost without boundaries. Vociferous and untamed, maybe, but certainly not undisciplined, it takes a certain skill and ingenuity to create music such as heard on Live At Cafe Oto. To the contrary, the UK free jazz trio--Alan Wilkinson (reeds), John Edwards (bass), ...

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One Night in Burmantofts

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Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Greetings Herr B and Herr K; 02. Cormorant Number Two; 03. Bird Flew; 04. All Back to Paul's.


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