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Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012

Read "Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012" reviewed by Ted Harms


Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two Sides of Fred Frith

Read "Two Sides of Fred Frith" reviewed by John Eyles


From the very start of his musical career, guitarist Fred Frith has been equally at home as an improviser, a songwriter or a combination of the two. His first group, the legendary Henry Cow, always featured a balance between songs that were used as a springboard for improvisation and free improvisations. In contrast, his debut solo ...

News: Event

The Possibilities Are Endless: Celebrating 40 Years Of Contemporary Improvisation At New England Conservatory

The Possibilities Are Endless: Celebrating 40 Years Of Contemporary Improvisation At New England Conservatory

Concerts in Boston and New York Featuring Distinguished Faculty, Alumni and Students of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation Department August 3, 2012 – April 8, 2013 The possibilities are endless at New England Conservatory, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of its groundbreaking Contemporary Improvisation department with a year-long series of concerts and events in Boston and New York ...

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Article: Album Review

Aaron Novik: Secret of Secrets

Read "Secret of Secrets" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Aaron Novik blends the readings of the Kabbalah into a nouveau, borderless set of musical inferences, combining horns, strings, electronics and disparate instrumentation with Jewish mysticism and man's destiny into a shadowy portraiture. Featuring ominous passages and weighty movements, the San Francisco-based leader integrates his electric clarinet amid a cavalcade of psycho-rock sorties and lean improvisational ...

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Article: Album Review

Aaron Novik: Secret of Secrets

Read "Secret of Secrets" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Secret of Secrets is the most ambitious project to date by Bay Area composer and clarinetist Aaron Novik. This dark and epic, deeply personal composition draws its inspiration from the writings of the late 12th century mystic Rabbi Eleazar Rokeach, known as Rabbi Eleazar of Worms. The Rabbi's masterwork, the five-book Secret of Secrets, deals with ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance

Read "Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Earth Music commemorates a decade of musical art presentations by the forward-thinking Bay Area Gallery founded on and operating under the firm conviction that significant art increases social, philosophical and spiritual change. It seems popular now to support the new music, which by those two words seems to imply--and this is becoming odious too--the entire artistic ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Piano & Violin: Jorge Lima Barreto/Carlos Zingaro; Borah Bergman/Stefano Pastor & Minamo

Read "Piano & Violin: Jorge Lima Barreto/Carlos Zingaro; Borah Bergman/Stefano Pastor & Minamo" reviewed by Marc Medwin


Jorge Lima Barreto/Carlos ZingaroKits 2Numerica2009 Borah Bergman/Stefano PastorLive at TortonaMutable2009 MinamoKuroi Kawa--Black RiverTzadik2010 Here are three very different takes on the traditional ...

Album

Fear Draws Misfortune

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Sun Dies (Libersher/Rutledge); 02. Mescalito (Perkolup); 03. And Then You Realize You Haven't Left Yet (Jones); 04. Blue Cheadle (Libersher/Jones); 05. Disenchantment (Jones/Rutledge); 06. The Carnal, Garish City (Perkolup/Libersher/Jones); 07. According To The Spiral (Jones/Rutledge); 08. Humanizing The Distance (Libersher/Jones/Perkolup); 09. Your Weak Heart (Jones).

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Article: Album Review

Cheer-Accident: Fear Draws Misfortune

Read "Fear Draws Misfortune" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


E' un lungo percorso, un pò inaspettato, quello di questa band di Chicago. Iscritti nella scena now-wave per aver pubblicato tre albums per Skin Graft Records (la stessa di US Maple, The Flying Luttenbachers, Brise-Glace, Arab On Radar e altri), più che per effettiva comunanza stilistica tra le musiche, la band di Thymme Jones (You Fantastic!, ...

Album

Minamo

Label: Henceforth Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Remembering Backwards - 5:42; 02. One Hundred and Sixty Billion Spray - 16:18; 03. Lychnis - 2:14; 04. Remainder Of One, Reminder Of Two - 26:40. Composizioni di Satoko Fujii e Carla Kihlstedt


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