Results for "Angles"

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Magnus Broo: Swedish Wood

Read "Swedish Wood" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 24, 2010

Those partial to avant-garde musicians who swing will prefer trumpeter Magnus Broo's Swedish Wood over fans of neoconservatives that embrace freedom. Broo's melodic take on the two-bass (Torbjörn Zetterberg and Joe Williamson) and drummer (Håkon Mjåset Johansen) quartet finds him mostly playing the straight-man to his adventurist and sometime comedic band members. Fans of ...

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Angles: Epileptical West/Live In Coimbra

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2010

Gli Angles sono una delle band più emozionanti del jazz creativo di oggi. Politica, vibrante, libera, comunicativa! Se già il precedente Every Woman Is a Tree ci aveva colpito per la capacità di fare brillare di energie nuove un lessico condiviso come quello che deriva dalla grande stagione estatico-modale degli anni Sessanta, questo nuovo Epileptical West ...

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Every Woman Is A Tree

By Angles

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Peace is not for us; Don't ruin me; My world of mines; Every woman is a tree; The indispensable warlords; Let's talk about the weather (and not about the war)

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Angles: Every Woman Is a Tree

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 17, 2008

Musicista che si muove con grande curiosità su diversi piani di linguaggio - da quello più aderente alla tradizione free, come nel caso degli Exploding Customers, a quello più radicale che esplora le tecniche meno convenzionali dello strumento - il sassofonista svedese Martin Küchen non nasconde mai una matrice “politica" che contribuisce a muovere il suo ...

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Angles: Every Woman Is A Tree

Read "Every Woman Is A Tree" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 8, 2008

Good can triumph over evil. It's just that evil is just so well organized by the political parties, oil corporations, and media conglomerates that the voice of dissent is often overshadowed. Like Woody Guthrie or Charles Mingus utilizing music to protest the sins of their time, today, bubbling in between the cracks of popular culture is ...

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Angles: Every Woman is a Tree

Read "Every Woman is a Tree" reviewed by Dean Christesen

by Dean Christesen
July 2, 2008

Every Woman is a Tree is dedicated to the women of Iraq, whose children cling to their branches for protection during this time of war. It asks the brutal question of what happens to the children when the branches are cut and the tree is killed, as well as questions of leadership and societal upbringing. The ...

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Angles

By Glen Hall

Label: Tarsier Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Axiom; Angle; Theorem; Corollary; Radius; Axis; Vertex; Circle/Square/Triangle; Theorem; Big Ears (for Paul Haines); Axiom 2.

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Glen Hall / trio_muo: Angles

Read "Angles" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 28, 2006

Canadian multi-reedist Glen Hall is noted for pushing the envelope, largely within modern jazz and free improvisational domains. This trio release exemplifies that notion rather poignantly. His interesting compositional concepts reflect learning from the masters, while concurrently sculpting his own voice. The band slices up time signatures; Hall and the rhythm section execute contrapuntal maneuvers, all ...

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