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Julius Vasylenko: Seeing Stars

by Gordon Marshall
January 15, 2010

Julius Vasylenko has earthy charisma. Because of his accent, people who come into his purlieu immediately assume an association with elite British improvisers. “Did he hang with Derek Bailey?" they wonder...I could say Vasylenko, a multi-reed and saxophonist now based in Boston, was John Butcher's and Evan Parker's kid brother. However, it ...

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Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ

November 26, 2009

Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...

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Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 26, 2009

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Article: Album Review

Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone

Read "Of The Body Prone" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 27, 2009

Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hardcore music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg are, “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band Ahleuchatistas certainly does ...

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Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone

by Mark Corroto
October 25, 2009

Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hard-core music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg, are “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band Ahleuchatistas certainly does know ...

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Ben Neill: Night Science

Read "Night Science" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 21, 2009

Miles Davis certainly smiled on musical innovations. Years ago, to keep up with the latest, all that was required was to check out what the late trumpeter was investigating. With Miles gone, the hunt maybe a bit more difficult, but then again Peter Gordon's Thirsty Ear label, under the creative direction of pianist Matthew Shipp, has ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2009: Day 1

by John Sharpe
July 8, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Brass 'n' Bang / Douglas R. Ewart and Inventions / Lawrence “Butch" Morris14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New York, New York June 9-15, 2009 New ...

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Article: Profile

Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit

by Mark Corroto
June 17, 2009

Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...

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Keyboardist Craig Taborn Interviewed at AAJ

June 15, 2009

There is no place for fear or doubt in pianist Craig Taborn's playing--such states are banished from a mind that seeks to explore the musical possibilities of each moment with maximum freedom. Taborn's improvisational playing is a continual creation where the journey is the thing, and words like beautiful, ugly and mistake have virtually no meaning. ...