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Article: Album Review

FAB Trio: History of Jazz In Reverse

Read "History of Jazz In Reverse" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
October 20, 2011

Jazz violin, for some, is an acquired taste. Perhaps this has more to do with the instrument's dominant role in Western classical music, more than anything else, but there's something very naked and vocal about the sound of a violin--much like the saxophone, it calls forth all sorts of intense emotions. Billy Bang, who died in ...

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Article: Album Review

Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes

Read "Chance Episodes" reviewed by Andrew J. Sammut

by Andrew J. Sammut
September 28, 2011

Saxophonist/composer Matt Steckler mentions “remembering things anew," when describing the music he wrote for Chance Episodes. Dead Cat Bounce certainly “remembers" several influences on its fourth album, yet its members recollect via their own unique voices. The Boston-based sextet munches on several speeds of hardboiled swing for “Food Blogger," with calypso beats sandwiched ...

News: Radio

AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches Five Eclectic Channels

July 12, 2011

If you haven't been to AccuJazz.com in a while, you'll notice a handful of recently-added channels now being offered for your listening pleasure. In the past month or so, we've added five channels to the already possibly overwhelming array of AccuJazz listening options. Read about each of them below, and then get to listening! AACM The ...

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Article: Interview

Marty Khan: Outward Visionary

by Seton Hawkins
July 5, 2011

The world of jazz owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Marty Khan. In 1976, when the standard wisdom held that jazz was dead or hiding in lofts, Khan founded his organization Outward Visions and quickly began organizing successful national and international tours for creative artists, including Sam Rivers and Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton, The Art ...

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Article: Live Review

AACM Great Black Music Festival

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 28, 2011

Ars Nova Workshop's AACM: Great Black Music FestivalPhiladelphia, PA June 4-13, 2011 It's been a hot half decade for the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Nicole Mitchell's tenure as co-chair (with Ernest Dawkins) came at a time when her star as a flutist and bandleader was also rising. Co-founder Muhal Richard ...

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Article: Interview

Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions

by Gordon Marshall
June 21, 2011

Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...

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Article: Interview

Travis Sullivan: This Cat Plays the Sax

by R.J. DeLuke
May 23, 2011

Travis Sullivan composes and arranges with a fine flair. For about the last six years, he's proven himself a strong leader of a large band, running the Bjorkestra, an acclaimed unit that plays slick, intricate and sometimes burning jazz versions of songs by popular Icelandic singer/songwriter Bjork. It's a band that's an audience pleaser ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonic Liberation Front: Meets Sunny Murray

Read "Meets Sunny Murray" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 26, 2011

Sonic Liberation Front--the inheritors of both Sun Ra and the Art Ensemble of Chicago's traditions--teams up with jazz legend, drummer Sunny Murray, to create both a studio and live recording. The music continues SLF's dedicated effort to mine the percussive traditions of Afro-Cuban, Yoruba/West Africa, and American-fostered free jazz. The percussion-heavy band's previous release, ...

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News: Recording

Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys (ECM 1126)

April 13, 2011

Art Ensemble of Chicago Nice Guys Lester Bowie trumpet, celeste, bass drum Joseph Jarman reeds, percussion, vocal Roscoe Mitchell reeds, percussion Malachi Favors Maghostus bass, percussion, melodica Famoudou Don Moye drums, percussion, vocal Recorded May 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg Engineer: Martin ...

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Article: Book Review

Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis

by Chris May
April 8, 2011

Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis Editor: Daniel Kernohan Paperback; 280 pagesISBN: 9781895166047Chavari Press2010 Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis is a book many jazz fans would probably like to write. It is, basically, a list of favorite albums. ...