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Steve Horowitz: New Monsters

Read "New Monsters" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 25, 2012

Despite the suggestion of the title, New Monsters is not actually crawling with legions of denizens from the netherworld. The promise of monsters has more to do with the unleashing of musical forces as diverse as klezmer and Erik Satie. Moreover, far from being a quaint experiment, the album takes a radical road--one that was travelled ...

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Tim Langedijk Trio: November

Read "November" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
March 25, 2012

Guitarist Tim Langedijk formed his first trio in 2006, recording two CDs with bassist Udo Pannekeet and drummer Haye Jellema: 2008's Testimonials (2008) and Inside The House (2010), both on The Sands Records label. Hans van Oosterhout replaces Jellema on November, which also features the exciting pianist Jasper van 't Hof. Langedijk's contemporary compositions ...

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Billy Hart: All Our Reasons

Read "All Our Reasons" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 24, 2012

In a career spanning work with saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and trumpeter Miles Davis to pianists Tommy Flanagan and Marian McPartland, drummer Billy Hart has pretty much seen it all, from the most centrist mainstream to the outer reaches of free playing and beyond. But as he approaches 72 later in 2012, there's one thing Hart hasn't ...

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Ewan Dobson: Ewan Dobson III

Read "Ewan Dobson III" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2012

Guitarist Ewan Dobson did not so much emerge from the house that Leo Kottke, John Fahey and Peter Lang built as construct his own wing and take command of it. Somewhere in that house, close to the Dobson wing, the spirit of Michael Hedges lurks, speaking from his portrait, encouraging the walls to be more percussive ...

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Georg Breinschmid: Fire

Read "Fire" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 24, 2012

The North American cognoscenti are not so hip after all. Not many will have heard of the Vienna Art Orchestra and fewer still will know of its one-time bassist, the classically trained, Georg Breinschmid. Breinschmid is a maddeningly ingenious virtuoso musician, who, picking up where Frank Zappa and Victor Borga left off, is breaking down musical ...

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Lara St. John and Marie-Pierre Langlamet: Bach Sonatas

Read "Bach Sonatas" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2012

Can classical music performance be controversial? Most often, this is true only when a performance departs from contemporary (or not-so-contemporary) conventional wisdom, which often relies on both a uniform and blinding reverence to how “things ought to be." Every composer who ever put pen to parchment may have designated a specific instrument in a given piece, ...

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Anna Borges and Bill Ward: Receita de Samba

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by Hrayr Attarian
March 24, 2012

Boston area husband and wife team Anna Borges and Bill Ward are the creative force behind Receita de Samba, a collection of 11 classics by various Brazilian composers. Both sing on alternate tracks that mix samba and bossa nova with other regional variations. A percussion heavy band that also includes flutist Amir Milstein ...

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Georg Breinschmid: Fire

by Larry Taylor
March 24, 2012

A mixture of outrageous humor and subtle beauty make up Fire, from Austrian bassist Georg Breinschmid. Such a conflicting opinion needs explaining. The 14 mostly originals (plus a bonus disc of four additional tracks) combine live and studio recordings using two different groupings. There is Brein's Café--a piano/violin/bass trio; and a duo with ...

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Ben Wendel: Frame

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by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 23, 2012

There is a beautiful and mysterious quality to multi-instrumentalist Ben Wendel's Frame. It is as if the hot breath from one of his horns has blown some ancient film away to reveal an iridescent object that begins to oscillate and spin, changing colors and hues, mesmerizing as it spins and swings with uncharacteristic swagger. All this ...

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Anthony Braxton: GTM (Synatx) 2003

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 23, 2012

Come annota la vocalist Anne Rhodes nel suo sito, la registrazione dal vivo alla Wesleyan University di questo doppio CD risale al marzo 2007, non al 2003 come è indicato nella copertina e nelle note del disco. In occasione di quel concerto Braxton presentò le esecuzioni della Composition 339 e della 340 insieme alla Rhodes, già ...