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Article: Live Review

John Scofield's Country for Old Men at the Ardmore Music Hall

Read "John Scofield's Country for Old Men at the Ardmore Music Hall" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


John Scofield's Country for Old Men The Ardmore Music Hall Ardmore, PA September 24, 2016 There are probably only are a handful of guitarists with a catalog as deep and stylistically diverse as John Scofield's. One of the obvious perils that these artists encounter when touring is facing an audience with ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Aadal Group: Pomona

Read "Pomona" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Proof that great Americana music can come from unexpected places--Norway, in this case. Pomona Avenue in Fullerton, California was the original location of the famed Fender factory. Guitarist Michael Aadal used only solid body guitars on this album--a Stratocaster and a Telecaster, the most iconic Fender models. That says something about the sound of Pomona, but ...

Article: Album Review

Nick Millevoi: Desertion

Read "Desertion" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Nick Millevoi, giovane chitarrista e compositore di Filadelfia, ama sorprendere. Lo testimonia l'eterogeneità dei suoi progetti e delle sue collaborazioni, l'innata curiosità di esploratore di mondi sonori che lo portano a comporre per grandi ensemble come per piccoli gruppi di stampo rock. Chi avesse confidenza con Many Arms -il suo gruppo più stabile, una sorta di ...

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Article: Live Review

Kris Davis and Craig Taborn Live at The Wexner Center For The Arts

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Kris Davis and Craig Taborn The Wexner Center For The Arts Columbus, OH October 7, 2016 The two-week, 12 city tour was billed as Kris Davis and Craig Taborn piano duos. It might have been better advertised as a solo act, let's call it 'Davborn' or maybe 'Krisaig.' ...

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Article: Album Review

Andrew Downing: Otterville

Read "Otterville" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Canada's Downing clan hails from the Ontario tobacco belt town, Otterville. Andrew Downing--bassist/cellist/composer--home-ported in Toronto now, celebrates the familial stomping grounds with a two CD set laid down by a sextet, plus guests, of an unusual instrumentation. It's an immersion into the simplicity and tranquility of the out-of-the-way, small town experience. Each of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Brewer: Unspoken

Read "Unspoken" reviewed by Andrew Luhn


Bassist Matt Brewer first revealed his talents as a bandleader and a composer on his 2014 Criss Cross debut Mythology. Brewer returns to the Criss Cross label for his sophomore effort with a completely new quintet to explore seven new original compositions, a Bill Frisell cover, and one Charlie Parker tune. Joining him this time around ...

Article: My Playlist

Filippo Vignato

Read "Filippo Vignato" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. How Town -I Dare You Sea (Kleine Opa -2016). Per me una rivelazione, è il terzo album di questo gruppo vocale (leader il contrabbassista belga Lennart Heyndels) formato da giovani improvvisatori ed improvvisatrici nord-europei di immenso talento gravitanti attorno alla vivace scena olandese. Disco visionario per scrittura, suono, ricerca sulle possibilità dello strumento vocale ...

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Article: Album Review

Kris Davis: Duopoly

Read "Duopoly" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Query: when does improvised music appear more arranged than written compositions? The question is not a zen koan, it is the notion put forth by the sixteen duets performed by pianist Kris Davis and her eight collaborating partners. Davis, who can no longer be labeled a “rising star" of jazz and improvised piano, is a fully ...

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Article: Album Review

Andrew Cyrille Quartet: The Declaration of Musical Independence

Read "The Declaration of Musical Independence" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Drummer Andrew Cyrille is probably best known for his long association with the avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. He has previously appeared on ECM and Watt albums by saxophonist Marion Brown (Afternoon of a Georgia Faun, 1970), Carla Bley (European Tour 1977, 1978), The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (originally on JCOA, 1968), and most recently on Ben Monder's ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Scofield: Country for Old Men

Read "John Scofield: Country for Old Men" reviewed by John Kelman


When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very well-received, jazz purists rankled when the largely bluegrass/folk-informed album began to garner awards like Downbeat Magazine's Best Jazz Album of the Year. While Frisell's oftentimes Americana-tinged ...


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