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Juneteenth
By William Roper with Judicanti Responsura & Zen Tsuba
Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Juneteenth; Pigs, Pigs, Oh! Those Tasty Pigs; The Perfect Construction of Decisive Moments; Kagami Jishi; Dance of the Sophists; A Recondidte State of Lorn; Lachrimae
Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes
by Joel Roberts
Although Vijay Iyer has a Ph.D. in music and cognitive science, his dazzling new CD, Panoptic Modes , shows the New York-based pianist more focused on spiritual concerns than purely intellectual ones. Melding Vedic chant and South Indian rhythms with the more obvious influences of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, Iyer creates a unique and vibrant ...
Wabi Down Home Blues Project Band: The Best Things in Life Are Still Made By Hand
by Robert Jarovi
The story is very familiar: Young man hears blues legend (Howlin’ Wolf) on record and picks up an instrument (harmonica) for the next few years to master it. Many British and European youthfuls in the 60’s enacted this scene out ad nauseum. Except in this case the young man is from Japan - physically and culturally ...
William Roper with Judicanti Responsura & Zen Tsuba: Juneteenth
by Glenn Astarita
California-based tubaist William Roper is among an elite few of virtuosi who are capable of extending their instruments range and capabilities to previously unvisited terrain. The artist is also known for his involvement with legendary new music/modern jazz icons Anthony Braxton and James Newton amid stints with other notables who generally alter or extend the tried ...
William Roper with Judicanti Responsura & Zen Tsuba: Juneteenth
by Glenn Astarita
California-based tubaist William Roper is among an elite few of virtuosi who are capable of extending their instruments range and capabilities to previously unvisited terrain. The artist is also known for his involvement with legendary new music/modern jazz icons Anthony Braxton and James Newton amid stints with other notables who generally alter or extend the tried ...
Doug Yokoyama: Identities
by AAJ Staff
The second law of thermodynamics states that disorder is an ever-advancing force in the universe. Within the context of improvised music, entropy can often be a primary consideration. The jazz composer and performer both face an uphill battle organizing sounds into a coherent whole without obstructing the creative potential unleashed by ever-creeping entropy. Jazz (and to ...
Sound Off 1999/2000 - Beams & Waves
By Miya Masaoka
Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 2000