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Jazz Trumpeter Josh Lawrence To Discuss What's “Minimal” With Philly Creative Community

Jazz Trumpeter Josh Lawrence To Discuss What's “Minimal” With Philly Creative Community

Free CreativeMornings breakfast lecture welcomes creative professionals across disciplines to Kimmel Center on June 13 CreativeMornings Philadelphia presents Josh Lawrence Friday, June 13, 2014 8:30 to 10 a.m. SEI Innovation Studio Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Broad and Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 ...

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Article: Album Review

Sequoia: Rotations

Read "Rotations" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Sequoia is an international, Berlin-based double bass quartet comprised of German Meinard Kneer, active on both the Dutch and Berlin improvisation scenes and the founder of Evil Rabbit Records; Klaus Kürvers, who initiated this project, a former architect and cultural historian and another player of the Berlin improvised scene; Canadian Miles Perkin, a frequent collaborator of ...

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Article: Album Review

Mats Gustafsson/dieb13/Martin Siewert: Fake The Facts: Soundtrack

Read "Soundtrack" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Stripped to its core, music is communication. It is the accompaniment to life's movie. The first fabulists, our cavemen ancestors probably invented music by imitating the sounds of nature, such as bird calls, wolf howls, and the patter of rain on the cave's entrance. The pleasure delivered by that experience caused several members of the cavemen's ...

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Article: Album Review

KUU!: Sex gegen Essen

Read "Sex gegen Essen" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


KUU! is a new Berlin-based quartet comprised of actor- vocalist Jelena Kuljic and three acclaimed and experienced improvisers-- guitarist Frank Möbus, leader of the band Der Rote Bereich and frequent collaborator with Portuguese double player Carlos Bica, American drummer Jim Black, Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima and drummer Christian Lillinger, leader of the GRUND group and member ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Allison Crowe Drives To New Lands: “heavy Graces” Tour On Deck

Allison Crowe Drives To New Lands: “heavy Graces” Tour On Deck

She comes from a land of ice and snow. Some years more-so than others. And, like such phenomena, Allison Crowe’s preternatural talent, and her peerless body of music, is marked by a pure, crystalline, uniqueness. “How can someone so small and young have such a big voice and write such heavy duty songs?,” legendary West-coast Canada ...

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Article: Album Review

Jorg Schippa's UnbedingT: Zirkus Bizarr

Read "Zirkus Bizarr" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Berlin-based guitarist Jorg Schippa imparts the best of German engineering with his estimable associates. Take a little off-center Frank Zappa like trickery; high-octane organic/acoustic jazz rock, and morph with chamber-like ambience then add complex progressive jazz and European folk into the big picture. Somewhat remarkably, the band possesses a unique identity with a signature sound and ...

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Article: Album Review

Thomas Heberer, Achim Kaufmann: Knoten

Read "Knoten" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Inciso a Berlino a fine 2011, Knoten ci ripropone uno dei musicisti più interessanti della nuova scena jazzistica europea, Thomas Heberer, qui in duo col piano (anche preparato) di Achim Kaufmann, magari poco noto dalle nostre parti, ma che vanta pur sempre collaborazioni con Han Bennink, Mark Dresser, George Lewis, Steve Swallow, Paul Rutherford, Tomász Stanko, ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Sonorama: Putting the Past in the Future

Read "Sonorama: Putting the Past in the Future" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


It takes a collector to know what a collector wants. Ekkehart Fleischhammer who runs the German reissue label Sonorama has been in the record business since 2004, but he has spent far more time enjoying and searching for music. His own expertise and sense of quality is the foundation for Sonorama Records whose specialty is the ...

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Article: Album Review

Theo Jorgensmann: Bucksch

Read "Bucksch" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Revered German clarinetist Theo Jorgensmann has played an integral role in the European free jazz scene and is one of several artists who helped revitalize the instrument within avant-garde flanked jazz and improvisational vistas. Here, the artist predominately performs solo works on his G-low clarinet, yet unites with his trio culled from a live performance in ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Wollny Trio: Weltentraum

Read "Weltentraum" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The inventive German pianist Michael Wollny combines a delight in exploration with an impressively high work rate. As a result, he's become one of the European jazz scene's most prolific and most unpredictable performers. Weltentraum is the debut recording from the Michael Wollny Trio, a piano, bass, drum collaboration that on the surface at least bears ...


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