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New Vocabulary: New Vocabulary

Read "New Vocabulary" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 3, 2015

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman has such an original voice that his horn would be recognizable if he sat in with a Japanese noise band. Like late-Miles Davis appearances, the pleasure is hearing his distinctive blues-drenched sound, the plaintive cry of his alto saxophone. He last surfaced, on a recording that is, with Sonny Rollins' Road Shows, Vol. ...

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George Gee Swing Orchestra: Swing Makes You Happy!

Read "Swing Makes You Happy!" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 3, 2015

Swing Makes You Happy! isn't just an album title: it's a mantra and belief system that guides the George Gee Swing Orchestra, a little big band intent on rekindling the ear's love affair with music associated with a bygone era. Gee has been in the big band business for more than three decades, ...

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Keith Emerson & Greg Lake: Live From Manticore Hall

Read "Live From Manticore Hall" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 3, 2015

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were recognized as progressive rock's first super-group, framed on supreme virtuosity, extended compositions, melodic song-forms and over-the-top concerts. But during a 2010 world tour, Keith Emerson (keyboards) and Greg Lake (bass, guitars & vocals) delved a bit inward, like old friends who weathered the storm amid the trials and tribulations of the ...

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Franck Amsallem: Amsallem Sings

Read "Amsallem Sings" reviewed by Luca Muchetti

by Luca Muchetti
January 2, 2015

Da leggere in perfetta continuità con il più recente Volume II, pubblicato nel 2014, Amsallem Sings è l'album di debutto come cantante del pianista Franck Amsallem. Musicista francese di lungo corso e dalle origini algerine, sceglie di utilizzare per la prima volta la voce nel modo probabilmente più ambizioso, intimo e fascinoso: accompagnandosi col solo pianoforte ...

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Henri Texier Hope Quartet: Live at L'improviste

Read "Live at L'improviste" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
January 2, 2015

Registrato dal vivo nel 2012, questo documento conferma l'ottima impressione destata dallo Hope Quartet in alcuni festival europei recenti: palpitante senso della storia, padronanza di un linguaggio legato ai dettami boppistici ma apertissimo alle soluzioni informali, voci strumentali di plastica bellezza, capacità di garantire un suono di gruppo senza rinunciare alla valorizzazione dei singoli. ...

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Rhythm Method: By The Bye

Read "By The Bye" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 1, 2015

Rhythm Method--a quintet of some of Dublin's finest contemporary musicians--was founded by guitarist Shane Latimer and bassist Cormac O'Brien in 2009. Trumpeter Bill Blackmore, Rhodes keyboardist Darragh O'Kelly and Latimer form a probing three-pronged front-line, with O'Brien and drummer Shane O'Donavan plying lithe grooves. The division of labor, however, is not quite that simple, for like ...

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Bud Powell: Bouncing With Bud

Read "Bouncing With Bud" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
January 1, 2015

This album has cropped up in various guises over the years. Most recently it was part of Storyville's In Copenhagen series." It's back, as part of the same label's Remastered Vinyl collection. Powell was one of the most talented yet tragic artists in jazz history, a giant of the bebop era who translated ...

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Philip Glass: Low Symphony

Read "Low Symphony" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
January 1, 2015

Back in 1977 singer David Bowie released two groundbreaking records, Low (EMI, 1977) and Heroes, (EMI, 1977) which together with Lodger constitute (EMI, 1979) a famous triptych of records or the iconic Berlin Trilogy. It was during this period that he created some of the critically most acclaimed and forward looking music (but commercially less successful) ...

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David Gibson: Boom!

by Dan Bilawsky
December 31, 2014

Trombonist David Gibson's Boom!--his sixth leader date, and third release on the Posi-Tone imprint--is something of a fresh start. His two previous releases--A Little Somethin' (Posi-Tone, 2009) and End Of The Tunnel (Posi-Tone, 2011)--were cut from the same cloth, as each largely focused on funk, soul jazz, and swing; both albums also featured the same quartet--Gibson ...

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Chamber 3: Grassroots

Read "Grassroots" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 31, 2014

Do different geographies create different sounds? New York-hard and brassy, in your face and boppish; the Nordic countries--cool and reflective, spacious and dreamy; the American Midwest, Chicago and Detroit--soulful and hip with a hard urban edge. This is, of course, a simplification, with exceptions flying all over the place, but distinct similarities in sounds can be ...