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Sun Ra: Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez

Read "Heimstad--Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez" reviewed by Daniel Mège

by Daniel Mège

Most will remember John Cage  Meets Sun Ra (Meltdown Records, 1987), drawn from a June 8, 1986 concert at Coney Island, at the initiative of producer Rick Russo to promote his new label. Cage did not know Ra, Ra barely knew Cage, and by most accounts the encounter was a non-encounter. A similar experience brought Ra and Pierre ...

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Cirque du Soleil: From J to Z - A Fantasia

Read "From J to Z - A Fantasia" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara

It feels familiar enough at the start: a bluesy piano intro, a playful back-and-forth exchange between a pair of horns... but within a few minutes, the stage lighting has turned practically psychedelic. Figures begin weaving through the dinner tables, masked like animals but garbed in sequined dresses and hip suits. Soon they are forming small human ...

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Viktorija Gečytė & Gene Perla: Mother

Read "Mother" reviewed by Ieva Pakalniškytė

by Ieva Pakalniškytė

Sometimes the music does not so much ask to be heard as it quietly draws you in. Listening to Viktorija Gečytė and Gene Perla's album Mother feels like slipping into a warm, half-remembered moment. The atmosphere is unhurried, softly lit, unfolding somewhere between memory and the present. Structured as a six-composition album, it echoes the aesthetic world of ...

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Daggerboard: The Skipper and Mike Clark

Read "The Skipper and Mike Clark" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The rhythm section--more specifically, bassist Henry “The Skipper" Franklin and drummer Mike Clark--is front and center on the fourth recording by San Francisco Bay-area Daggerboard, the brainchild of trumpeter Erik Jekabson and percussionist Gregory Howe, who have enlisted a large array of supporting actors to help refine and sharpen their unique musical vision. That ...

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Dave Adewumi: The Flame Beneath the Silence

Read "The Flame Beneath the Silence" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Di origini nigeriane e cresciuto nel New Hampshire prima di trasferirsi a New York, il giovane e talentuoso trombettista Dave Adewumi ha studiato e collaborato nel corso degli anni con musicisti del calibro di Ralph Alessi, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg e svariati altri, il che gli ha consentito di arrivare a questo che è il primo ...

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Chris Parker Septet: Reunion

Read "Reunion" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

This is a Reunion that Chris Parker was lucky to celebrate. In August 2023, eight months after recording his fifth album as leader and while vacationing in his native Oregon, Parker suffered a serious stroke that left him (temporarily) unable to walk or use his left hand when playing the piano. Before that misfortune struck, Parker ...

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Metropole Orkest: Arakatak

Read "Arakatak" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

L'olandese Metropole Orkest celebra il suo ottantesimo anniversario evitando di compiacersi del ricchissimo e prestigioso passato ma vivendo la contemporaneità in costante tensione innovativa. Per l'occasione pubblica esclusivamente in vinile, Arakatak, un sontuoso doppio LP contenente otto composizioni commissionate a Morris Kliphuis, Vince Mendoza, Donny McCaslin, Miho Hazama, Tineke Postma, Mark Guiliana, Shai Maestro e Louis ...

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Franco D'Andrea: Live

Read "Live" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Da quanto tempo Franco D'Andrea si misura con il classico trio di pianoforte, contrabbasso e batteria? L'esordio discografico in tale ambito, con la registrazione nel 1970 di Modern Art Trio, rappresentò una sfida forte ed eccentrica rispetto al trio jazz, in sintonia con quei tempi di sperimentazione e scavalcamento delle barriere, di mescolamento di idiomi, generi ...

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Oded Tzur: Make A Sound

Read "Make A Sound" reviewed by David Bruggink

by David Bruggink

Make A Sound marks the first full release from saxophonist and composer Oded Tzúr's fledgling label, Sky River Music. After a pair of fiery albums for Enja Records and a string of esteemed releases on ECM Records, Tzúr sets out in a new direction with a set of tracks channeling deeply personal expression through his Indian-influenced jazz. He is accompanied ...

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Dan West: Presenting the Dan West Big Band

Read "Presenting the Dan West Big Band" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

"If it walks like a big band and talks like a big band..." well, that does not always mean it actually is a big band. For example, Los Angeles-based composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Dan West 's able group is by and large an octet which, by means of modern electronics, has been transformed into a full-fledged ...


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