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Berdon Kirksaether & the Twang Bar Kings: Latenighters Under a Full Moon

Read "Latenighters Under a Full Moon" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 11, 2014

It is really no longer appropriate to call American Music American. It is Global music and that is all it can be. Gone are those days when shellac and vinyl discs had to be exported. Music from anywhere on earth is as close as one's computer. Norwegian blues? Why not? Guitarist and composer Berdon ...

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Gary Clark, Jr.: Live

by Doug Collette
October 11, 2014

Anyone who's had the privilege to see Gary Clark Jr. in concert knows that his previous recordings, on his own Hotwired Records as well as the two major label titles, are but sketches of how he's progressively forging influences of rock, blues and r&b into a stirring style of his own. Live preserves for posterity a ...

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John Coltrane: Offering: Live At Temple University

Read "Offering: Live At Temple University" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 11, 2014

Offering: Live at Temple University finally and officially releases the John Coltrane concert (in)famous for him singing with his voice in addition to singing through his saxophone during several pieces. Released on the saxophonist's 88th birthday (September 23, 2014), it presents a genuinely legendary 1966 performance in a small hall about ten blocks from Coltrane's own ...

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Pauline Oliveros: Accordion & Voice

Read "Accordion & Voice" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
October 10, 2014

It's understandable if Pauline Oliveros is not a top-of-mind name, even after more than five decades in music. The eighty-two year old composer has been far-removed from the mainstream as a pioneer in the subculture of experimental electronic music and composition since the 1960s and her acoustic instrument of choice is the accordion. Yet her résumé ...

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Nora Germain: Little Dipper

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by C. Michael Bailey
October 10, 2014

Jazz fiddlers are not exactly household renowned. Joe Venuti, Ray Nance, Stephane Grappelli, Michal Urbaniak, Svend Asmussen, Jean-luc Ponty and Regina Carter pop to the forefront, but then the list falls off quickly. Presently there emerges one Nora Germain (a name made to be in lights if there ever was one) who not only fiddles but ...

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Anja Lechner / François Couturier: Moderato cantabile

Read "Moderato cantabile" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 10, 2014

ECM Records has long divided its discography in two: the regular series, representing music of a more improvisational bent; and its New Series, featuring largely classical music ranging from the contemporary to the archaic, but more truly defined in its through-composed nature. Still, the line between the two has, however, often been a porous one, where ...

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Daniel Schlaeppi: Essentials

Read "Essentials" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
October 10, 2014

Bassist Daniel Schlaeppi, in response to his efforts in playing, recording and producing top-notch jazz for the past ten years, won a six month scholarship to come to New York in 2010. During his stay, he heard Marc Copland's New York Trio with Gary Peacock and Bill Stewart, and afterward sent Copland an email ...

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Ellen Burr, Michael Unruh: Where Am I From, Where Am I Going

Read "Where Am I From, Where Am I Going" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
October 10, 2014

La flautista (e didatta) losangelina Ellen Burr, che sembra proprio essere la principale responsabile di quest'incisione, pur del tutto paritaria sul piano squisitamente esecutivo, dichiara di dedicare la stessa ai docenti della Wichita University, che le hanno inculcato l'amore per la musica, nonché a Frances Shelly, flautista, Walter Mays e Arthur Wolff, che l'hanno iniziata alla ...

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InterStatic: Arise

Read "Arise" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 10, 2014

Interstatic è una sorta di power trio formato da virtuosi strumentisti quali il tastierista Roy Powell (Anthony Braxton, Art Farmer, Terje Rypdal), il batterista Jarle Vespestad (Supersilent, Tord Gustavsen) e il chitarrista Jacob Young (Karin Krog, Nils Petter Molvaer, Christian Wallumrod). Trio che ha trovato ragioni comuni solide e importanti visto che è alla terza incisione ...

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Sarah Marie Young: Little Candy Heart

Read "Little Candy Heart" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 9, 2014

Sarah Marie Young's Little Candy Heart occupies the space where jazz, soul and classic R&B meet and exchange ideas. On this evidence, it's a great place to be. Young's first release on Dutch download-only label SnipRecords is one of the most beautiful albums of 2014. Stylistically there's an old-school vibe going on: song-focussed and ...