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Article: Album Review

Clarke - Boland Sextet: Swing Im Bahnhof

Read "Swing Im Bahnhof" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Protagonista di questo disco da tempo introvabile, è un medio organico estratto dalla big band diretta da Kenny Clarke e Francy Boland, che dal 1961 al 1972 operò in Europa, caratterizzandosi tra le massime orchestre mainstream dell'epoca. Introdotto dal famoso attore e mimo francese Marcel Marceau, il sestetto inaugurava il 25 settembre 1965 un ...

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Article: Album Review

Ran Blake: Plays Solo Piano

Read "Plays Solo Piano" reviewed by Mark Corroto


ESP Disk's 50th anniversary reissue series continues to unearth valuable documents from the history of cutting edge music. Back in the 1960s, when jazz was becoming marginalized as popular music and disenfranchised by the rise of rock-and-roll, ESP chose to eliminate musical classifications that pigeonholed creative music. The label released music by Albert Ayler and Gato ...

News: Recording

Free Nelson Mandoomjazz Debuts On Rarenoise With Double Ep, The Shape Of Doomjazz To Come / Saxophone Giganticus

Free Nelson Mandoomjazz Debuts On Rarenoise With Double Ep, The Shape Of Doomjazz To Come / Saxophone Giganticus

With a crunching sound that is as teeth-chatteringly heavy as metal icons like Slayer and Megadeth or ferocious grindcore groups like Napalm Death and Brutal Truth, yet is imbued with the freedom principle of such avant-garde jazz icons as saxophonists Marshall Allen, Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzman, the formidable instrumental power trio from Scotland known as ...

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Article: Album Review

Albert Ayler: Lorrach, Paris 1966

Read "Lorrach, Paris 1966" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This is the third edition of the original pressing by hatOLOGY records, containing re-masters of tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler's live performances in Lorrach, Germany, and live tracks recorded at the Paris jazz festival, culled from his 1966 European tour. In the liners, Peter Niklas Wilson asserts that the George Wein produced the “Newport in Europe" tour ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

How to Know: Spirit Music - Crazy Wisdom, Shamanism And Trips To The Black Sky

Read "How to Know: Spirit Music - Crazy Wisdom, Shamanism And Trips To The Black Sky" reviewed by Ken Hyder


The following is an excerpt from the “Instability as an Aid to Spirit Music" chapter of How to Know by Ken Hyder (Amazon Digital Services, 2013). There is a tension between precision and looseness. In jazz, the tension is minute, but it makes all the difference to whether the music swings ...

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Article: Album Review

1032K: That Which Is Planted

Read "That Which Is Planted" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


When trumpeter/ trombonist Frank Lacy appeared with the Mingus Big Band this past summer at the Caramoor Jazz Festival, he stole the show in the company of fourteen top-shelf musicians. The live performance venue in which Lacy thrives isn't diminished in the smaller group setting as proven out in the 1032K trio debut That Which Is ...

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Article: Interview

Brian Carpenter: In Between The Cracks

Read "Brian Carpenter: In Between The Cracks" reviewed by DanMichael Reyes


To write that Brian Carpenter has had an interesting career would be an incomplete statement since he holds so many. By day Carpenter is an engineer, but there's also his radio shows, his acting career, a film he's working on about Albert Ayler, his band Brian Carpenter and the Confessions where he sings and composes, and ...

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Article: Album Review

Tiger Hatchery: Sun Worship

Read "Sun Worship" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Chicagoan power-jazz trio Tiger Hatchery debut mini- album is released on ESP-Disk, the label that was the most influential free jazz label in the mid-sixties. So it is no coincidence that Tiger Hatchery are influenced by Albert Ayler's seminal album Spiritual Unity, the first album that ESP-Disk released, as well as other high-octane trios like ...

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Article: Album Review

Abbey Rader: Reach For The Skies

Read "Reach For The Skies" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Look beyond the giants of free jazz saxophone, better yet listen to the sounds behind John Coltrane, Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, and any other legend of free jazz. Listen and you'll hear Han, Elvin, Paal, Ronald Shannon, Hamid, Milford, Sunny, and Rashied. Drummers. Add to that list Abbey. Abbey Rader is an ...

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Article: Album Review

Noah Rosen / Alan Siva: O.I.L. (Orchestrated Improvised Lives)

Read "O.I.L. (Orchestrated Improvised Lives)" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Alan Silva is one of the last true heroes of free jazz and improvised music. He was at the right place, at the right time with his own powerful sound. He played, while still playing the double bass, on some of the formative recordings of the forefathers of the sixties free jazz as Albert Ayler, Sun ...


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