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Brian Pareschi: And the BP Express

Read "And the BP Express" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 24, 2015

For his debut recording as leader, New York-based trumpeter / composer / arranger Brian Pareschi has assembled an octet, named it the BP Express and charged it with breathing life into seven of his original compositions and dazzling arrangements of Frank Loesser's “I Believe in You" and the Johnny Green standard “I Cover the Waterfront." The ...

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Exhaustion / Kris Wanders: Exhaustion / Kris Wanders

Read "Exhaustion / Kris Wanders" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 24, 2015

The marriage of punk rock to free jazz is a natural fit. Both art forms are DIY; punk a rejection of corporate rock-n-roll of the 1970s and free jazz, the stasis of jazz, some fifty years post-birth. Today, we find Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore playing with The Thing, Borbetomagus, The Ex and Ken Vandermark, John Zorn's ...

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New Jazz Orchestra: Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe

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by Duncan Heining
January 24, 2015

I remember reading about this record in Melody Maker when it came out. These were all the people I admired in one band! Yet I never ever saw a copy until one day twenty years later in a record shop in Ipswich, I pulled this gem from the racks. £2.50! I couldn't believe the price or ...

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Schnauser: Protein for Everyone

Read "Protein for Everyone" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 24, 2015

Here's a persuasively inventive British progressive band that recycles protein into music, or so it seems. In fact, vocalist Holly McIntosh is also one of the greatest emulsifier (see Personnel listing) performers I've ever heard. Okay, besides the unconventional album motif, this band successfully transmigrate classic styles into its modish repertoire. With nods to early Soft ...

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Eyebrow: Garden City

Read "Garden City" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 23, 2015

Mention the idea of the “garden city" to the good people of Britain and the likeliest (polite) response will be “Welwyn" or perhaps “Letchworth." Bristol, home to Eyebrow, isn't such a settlement but Garden City is the name the duo has given to its fourth album release. Pete Judge and Paul Wigens formed Eyebrow ...

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Anna Webber: Simple

by Dave Wayne
January 23, 2015

If things aren't just right, listening to complicated music can be like doing your taxes. There has to be chemistry, there has to be a narrative, and--even though you don't know what's coming next--the music's got to be on. The players have to be free to speak in a new language; often one divorced from the ...

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Horace Silver Quintet: June 1977 (livelove Series Vol 2)

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by Mark Sullivan
January 23, 2015

When the Horace Silver Quintet took the stage in Bremen in June, 1977, Silver was nearing the end of his long association with Blue Note Records. Much of the band's book was drawn from recent albums: the title tune from In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note, 1973), and two each from Silver 'N Brass ...

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Michel F. Coté: Mecha Fixes Clocks: Beau comme un aéroport

Read "Mecha Fixes Clocks: Beau comme un aéroport" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 23, 2015

The fourth album from innovative Montreal-based drummer Michel F. Côté's ensemble of improvisers Mecha Fixes Clocks is a suite of alternative songs, all referring to air travel (their previous releases were Orbiting With Screwdrivers, Alien8, 2005; À l'inattendu les dieux livrent passage, &records, 2010; and Teoria dell'elasticità di Girolamo Papariello, Ambiances Magnétiques, 2011).

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Joshua Breakstone: With the Wind and the Rain

Read "With the Wind and the Rain" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
January 23, 2015

L'atipica formazione, chitarra/basso/batteria con violoncello, potrebbe far pensare a digressioni cameristiche. Si impone invece una gioiosa pratica jazzistica per via del quarto strumento utilizzato con le medesime funzioni di chitarra e contrabbasso. Nel solco di una tradizione che annovera diversi maestri (su tutti Oscar Pettiford), si impone superbamente il contrabbassista Mike Richmond qui impiegato solo al ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc: What Is This Thing Called?

Read "What Is This Thing Called?" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 23, 2015

Jean-Michel Pilc's solo piano recording What Is This Thing Called? might have been titled “Thirty-one Conversations About One Thing." That 'one thing' being his 31 variations on Cole Porter's composition “What Is This Thing Called Love." Why record 31 versions of one song? Maybe ask yourself why Claude Monet created so many paintings of the same ...