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24 Tales

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Released: 2010
Track listing: On your marks...; Sit Back and Chillax; Tour De France; Dancing with the Baby Bear; Anamika; Pros and Cons of Depression; Little Man; Tranquillo; Tranquilizer; Sweet Torture; She likes it; See you there; X-Mas; Feel Me!; At the Club; Eau de Conlon; Doldrums; Minnemans in da House; Run, Fusion!; Air; Sexy; Blender; Quotes; Over and Out.
New Universe Music Festival: Day 1, November 20, 2010

by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 The New Universe Music FestivalRaleigh, North CarolinaNovember 20-21, 2010 With so many jazz festivals taking place around the world--and new ones emerging each and every year--just as it's become increasingly challenging, in this world of DIY recordings, for artists to filter through and be heard, how ...
Enjoy Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: November 8-10, 2010

by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyNovember 8-13, 2010 The pitfall of covering a number of festivals back-to-back is there's always the chance that a flight will be delayed, which means a missed train, which means arriving late at the next stop, and rather than having the opportunity to ...
Mike Keneally: Behind the Creative Mind

by Matthew Warnock
Percussionist Marco Minnemann's Normalizer 2 series grew out of an interesting and challenging premise. The accomplished drummer recorded an hour-long improvisation and then submitted the same recording to other artists, including John Czajkowski, Phi Yaan-Zek, Trey Gunn and Alex Machacek, and asked them to compose accompanying music to pair with his improv. Though this approach to ...
The New Universe Music Festival in Raleigh NC - November 20-21, 2010

John McLaughlin, Jimmy Herring, Lenny White and other stars headline (Raleigh, NC)Since its inception in 2003, Abstract Logix has consistently positioned itself at the cutting edge of every element of music sales, production, and distribution. In addition to traditional record label functions, Abstract Logix has fostered a vital community of musicians and fans via its online ...
Abstract Logix's Souvik Dutta: From Living Room to Center of the Universe

by Ian Patterson
Although tribes, cities and even nations have all at various times claimed to lie at the center of the universe, few have taken the claims seriously. Most recognize such boasts as either thinly veiled marketing ploys or thinly veiled insanity. However, on the 20th and 21st of November, devotees of good music from Australia, Japan, South ...
Abstract Logix's Souvik Dutta Interviewed at All About Jazz

It's a remarkable story. Beginning life as an online shop for fusion music of the broadest possible variety, Abstract Logix has, since its first foray into releasing albums under its own imprint in 2005, rapidly grown into the preeminent record label on the fusion scene. With a roster that includes a number of established greats and ...
Julie Slick: Julie Slick

by John Kelman
Despite a sudden explosion of female bassists--from Aussie Tal Wilkenfeld (Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea) to acoustic bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding (Joe Lovano--assessing them on the basis of gender would be wrong, since every one of them easily stands beside their male counterparts. The same can be said for Julie Slick, still on the shy side ...
New Universe Music Fest: McLaughlin, Herring, Lenny White
HUMAN ELEMENT, WAYNE KRANTZ, ALEX MACHACEK, RANJIT BAROT ALSO ADDED TO THE LINEUP John McLaughlin Abstract Logix is proud to announce its first-ever festival event, The New Universe Music Festival, to take place at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh North Carolina on November 20 and 21, 2010. A schedule and how to order tickets can be ...
Guitarist Alex Machacek Interviewed at AAJ...And More!

Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it--so the saying goes. When Alex Machacek asked drummer Marco Minnemann if he had a drum solo he could pass his way to compose around, he could never have expected a drum improvisation lasting 51 minutes. Before he could say, Hey, 13/16 is a really odd ...