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Vision Festival 2009: Day 1
by John Sharpe
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 ...
Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit
by Mark Corroto
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 ...
Keyboardist Craig Taborn Interviewed at AAJ
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. ...
Craig Taborn: Rooted
by Ian Patterson
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. ...
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues
by Mark Corroto
Without playing “name that tune," it is easy to mistake Jon Irabagon and Mike Pride's one song, 48-minute recording for one by Bill Laswell's Massacre. Same energy, same intensity, and volume, lots of volume. Funny, because this is an acoustic duo between saxophone and drums, while Massacre is a trio of drummer Charles Hayward, ...
Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...
Tennessee 2004
By Bill Laswell
Label: ROIR
Released: 2007
Track listing: Vertebrae; Spun; Night of the Slunk; Guitar Virus; Machine Gun; Haunted; Broken / Fractal; Bent Light; Chopper; Optic; Magus.
Praxis: Tennessee 2004
by Chris M. Slawecki
Praxis is the operative name of an experimental jazz/rock/funk/dub quartet led by bassist Bill Laswell with drummer Brain (Les Claypool's Primus), guitarist Buckethead and keyboardist Bernie Worrell (wizard of synthesized funk for P-Funk, Talking Head, etc...). They first came to Frankenstein-like life in 1993: because like that mad doctor, Laswell stitched Praxis together from disparate parts ...
