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Dylan Howe: Subterranean: New Designs On Bowie's Berlin

Read "Subterranean: New Designs On Bowie's Berlin" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 25, 2014

Dylan Howe is one of the UK's most versatile drummers--a long-standing member of The Blockheads, part of Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey's band on the chart-topping Going Back Home (Chess Records, 2014) and (alongside keyboard player Ross Stanley) part of his father, Steve Howe's, guitar trio. He's also responsible, with Will Butterworth, for a critically-acclaimed duo ...

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Horace Silver: The Hard Bop Grandpop

Read "The Hard Bop Grandpop" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis
June 25, 2014

With musicians, and artists generally, there's a tendency to think the best work is the earliest. It's usually true. Paul McCartney was never better than when he recorded with the Beatles. Chuck Berry's best work was the early hits like “Johnny B. Goode" and “Roll Over Beethoven." Tom Wolfe hasn't written anything as good ...

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Walt Weiskopf: Overdrive

Read "Overdrive" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
June 25, 2014

Here's a proposition for anyone who is about to plunk down their hard earned dollars on Steely Dan's Jamalot Ever After Tour. For a mere fraction of the cost of a ticket you can invest in a copy of Overdrive, the recently released set of original music by Walt Weiskopf, the band's longtime tenor saxophonist. A ...

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Hélène Prévost: À la plage

Read "À la plage" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 25, 2014

Montreal-based Canadian radio presenter, producer and sound artist Hélène Prévost creates in her debut recording a play within play, made of words and manipulated sounds that blur the distinctions between reality and fiction, real and virtual time. À la plage ("at the beach" in French) has nothing to do with breezy, recreational, summer leisure time but ...

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Scott Neumann Neu3 Trio: Blessed

Read "Blessed" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 25, 2014

Questo disco nasce dal desiderio del batterista Scott Neumann di incidere in trio con Michael Blake, sassofonista conosciuto nel lontano 1985 e successivamente incrociato in vari progetti. La storia musicale, la personalità e la mentalità aperta di Mark Helias sono gli elementi che hanno successivamente portato il leader a scegliere senza tentennamenti il contrabbassista. Nasce così ...

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Daniele Vianello: Cuore. Concerto per giocattolo

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by Alberto Bazzurro
June 25, 2014

Secondo una prassi operativa piuttosto tipica dell'etichetta leccese, l'album del quintetto capitanato dal bassista e compositore Daniele Vianello contiene una musica lieve, piana, accogliente, non particolarmente impegnata né impegnativa. Tali caratteri si colgono agevolmente fin dal brano iniziale, “Addio" (si noti la stringatezza dei titoli), di un descrittivismo palpabile, cantabile e un po' ...

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David Binney: Anacapa

by John Kelman
June 24, 2014

Some artists move forward in great leaps and bounds, while others evolve more slowly, over longer periods of time. David Binney is one of those rare musicians who manage to do both. While a sampling of some of his recent albums, such as Bastion of Sanity (2005), Cities and Desire (2006) and Aliso (2010l, all on ...

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Christopher Parker: Full Circle

Read "Full Circle" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 24, 2014

Pianist Chris Parker's second CD release on OA2 Records, Full Circle, sounds like an exciting live set full of vigorous life, something that engages the crowd and gets them up out of their seat, dancing. It's a quintet--common enough in jazz--with the uncommon use of violin in the front line beside the saxophone, reeling out unison ...

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Nils Petter Molvær: Switch

Read "Switch" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 24, 2014

From his first major recording date almost thirty years ago, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær has been a unique innovator with a seemingly insatiable appetite for testing new waters. Beginning with Masquarelo's seminal ECM Records debut, Bande à Part (1985), Molvær joined with the already established bassist Arild Andersen and his long-time collaborator, drummer Jon Christensen. ...

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John Escreet: Sound, Space and Structures

Read "Sound, Space and Structures" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 24, 2014

Nascent pianist, composer John Escreet has created a buzz in progressive jazz spheres, while paving a golden path since his well-received debut album, Consequences (Posi-Tone, 2008). The young British Renaissance man teams with fellow countryman and iconic saxophone improviser Evan Parker and frequent collaborators, bassist John Hebert and drummer Tyshawn Sorey on an album that is ...