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Spaceways Incorporated: Version Soul

Read "Version Soul" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
August 1, 2002

Something of an oddity in Ken Vandermark’s stable of projects Spaceways, Incorporated spent its infancy as a cover band mining the songbooks of Funkadelic and Sun Ra. The trio’s debut Thirteen Cosmic Standards built an entertaining and artistically-enhanced hour of music from these fraternal sources, but their sophomore sojourn in the studio suggested the need for ...

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Peter Br: For Adolphe Sax

Read "For Adolphe Sax" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
August 1, 2002

Contrary to its attendant acclaim, Peter Brötzmann's seminal Machine Gun was not the German's debut recording as a leader. That historic honor belongs to what many perhaps still consider a perverse homage to his principle instrument's inventor, also originally circulated on the FMP imprint. Both the Panzer intensity and stentorian belligerence are securely in place on ...

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G: White Earth Streak

Read "White Earth Streak" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
July 15, 2002

White Earth Streak has something animalistic about it. Perhaps that's due to the bird-like timbre on many of these pieces. Or perhaps it's the persistent jungle atmosphere, with odd, uncategorizable voices coming at unpredictable intervals from all around. Most strikingly, it's the sense that the four players featured on this recording play from a spontaneous inner ...

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Peter Br: For Adolphe Sax

Read "For Adolphe Sax" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 4, 2002

With all the historical references to the 1967 recording For Adolphe Sax aside, this session burns with a passion for life and indefatigalbe vigor for musicmaking, as fresh as any working unit in jazz today. The systematic rediscovery and rerelease of long out-of-print free jazz by Atavistic's Unheard Music Series reassembles a roadway linking creative musicians ...

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Ab Baars & Terrie Ex: Hef

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2002

Hef offers something truly special for fans of the nettlier side of modern jazz. Ab Baars and Terrie Ex, two stars of the Dutch underground, meet here for the kind of interplay that revives one's faith in free improvisation. Their natural yet sophisticated conversation makes this set work in an unusually fine fashion. Certainly ...

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Spaceways Inc.: Version Soul

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by AAJ Staff
June 10, 2002

Ken Vandermark has always been a big-picture kind of guy. Whether digging deep into the dirt for the NRG Ensemble, delighting in tight modern jazz in his quintet, or exploring any number of angles in various other settings, the saxophonist has always kept his music focused. He's that rare kind of player who dares to do ...

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Gregg Bendian's Interzone: Requiem for Jack Kirby

by Todd S. Jenkins
April 12, 2002

An impeccable tribute to an incomparable artist. Jack Kirby was one of the great comic-book creators, a dweller in places of long shadows and stark colors who fathered the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the X-Men and other legendary Marvel Comics. A musical tribute to a visual artist working in that medium might seem strange, but Interzone ...

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