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News: Performance / Tour

Allan Holdsworth / Alan Pasqua / Jimmy Haslip / Chad Wackerman - East Coast Tour

Allan Holdsworth / Alan Pasqua / Jimmy Haslip / Chad Wackerman -  East Coast Tour

HOLDSWORTH PASQUA HASLIP WACKERMAN EAST COAST USA TOUR Allan Holdsworth guitar Alan Pasqua keyboards * (except January 26) Jimmy Haslip bass guitar Chad Wackerman drums Promoting the upcoming MoonJune Records' release Blues For Tony (double CD). Tour Schedule ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

U.K., Danger Money and Night After Night Reissues

Read "U.K., Danger Money and Night After Night Reissues" reviewed by John Kelman


With violinist and keyboardist Eddie Jobson out of a self-imposed retirement that lasted over two decades, he's been wasting no time getting his name back out to progressive rock fans. 2008 saw the formation of UKZ, a new group following in the footsteps of late 1970s progressive rock supergroup U.K., which he formed alongside ex-King Crimson ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Agustin Barreto

Read "Take Five With Agustin Barreto" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Agustin Barreto: Barreto, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico started playing electric bass at age 16 and soon discovered his gift and passion for music. After a few years of “gigging around town" with a local rock band, he landed several jobs playing on local TV shows. With the encouragement of his peers he ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sylvain Provost: Desirs Demodes

Read "Sylvain Provost: Desirs Demodes" reviewed by Robert J. Lewis


Sylvain Provost Désirs Démodés Effendi Records 2009 If you've been among the very best in your chosen field (of jazz piano) over a long career, there will inevitably come a time when what you say carries as much weight as what you play. So when pianist Oliver Jones, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Domina Catrina

Read "Take Five With Domina Catrina" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Instrument(s):Left-handed acoustic guitar, high-strung acoustic guitar, virtual instruments (basses, percussions, ethnic instruments, etc) triggered from M-Audio oxygen-8 keyboard into MacBook using Apple loops (usually modified in some way), Indonesian flute (suling), soprano recorder, alto recorder.Teachers and/or influences? I spent six or seven months from September '86 studying guitar at the Musicians' Institute. ...

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Article: Album Review

The Conduit Trio: Beyond Liquid Glass

Read "Beyond Liquid Glass" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


New Mexico is recognized as an artists' haven, but not an area that features jazz-rock power trios. Nonetheless, there are always exceptions to the perceived rule. Marked by strong material, consisting of memorable hooks, guitarist Robert Branch's sizzling riffs and blitzing crunch chords steer the band through a string of tension and release stylizations. ...

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News: Recording

Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens: "Propensity" Art of Life CD Release

Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens: "Propensity" Art of Life CD Release

Art of Life Records is pleased to present a previously unreleased recording by three legendary British musicians. Bassist Danny Thompson (Pentangle, John Martyn, Tubby Hayes, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (Igginbottom, Nucleus, Tempest, Soft Machine, Gong, Bruford, U.K., Tony Williams New Lifetime) and drummer John Stevens (Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Tubby Hayes, Derek Bailey). Recorded ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill Bruford: The Summerfold and Winterfold Collections

Read "Bill Bruford: The Summerfold and Winterfold Collections" reviewed by Phillip Woolever


Drummer Bill Bruford announced his retirement from live performance in March 2009, and coincident with the release of his autobiography, Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), he has provided a treasure of remarkable composition and improvisation with these intriguing time-capsule tidbits. Another name for the collections, which chronicle the majority of Bruford's musical exploits from ...

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Article: Album Review

Manu Codjia: Manu Codjia

Read "Manu Codjia" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Manu Codjia is among the most active sidemen on the French jazz scene and one of the most original guitarists playing jazz anywhere. His playing--clearly indebted to Bill Frisell, but also to Allan Holdsworth, Tommy Bolin on Billy Cobham's Spectrum (Atlantic, 1973), and a host of other influences--constantly generates new ideas on several levels at once: ...

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Article: Album Review

Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn

Read "U-Turn" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


If there's one weakness in recent fusion releases, it's that they are sometimes too formulaic, with overcooked tempos and melodies that have hardly deviated since the sounds of groundbreaking progenitors such as The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth. Where's the creativity and new identity? Well one place it can be heard is in Dutch drummer and ...


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