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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Charles Lloyd: Defiant Warrior Still On Song

Read "Charles Lloyd: Defiant Warrior Still On Song" reviewed by Chris May


As fool's errands go, few compare with selecting a Top Ten Albums collection from Charles Lloyd's extensive top-drawer output. But here goes. Lloyd newbies could consider the list a launch pad, and seasoned fans can compare the choices with their own... Anyone going to jazz festivals in summer 1966, and lucky enough to ...

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Article: Album Review

Myra Melford's Fire And Water Quintet: Hear The Light Singing

Read "Hear The Light Singing" reviewed by John Sharpe


Pianist Myra Melford's blue chip Fire And Water quintet assuredly sidesteps second album syndrome. Hear The Light Singing stands very much the equal of the band's superlative eponymous debut. The only change is that Lesley Mok takes Susie Ibarra's place behind the trapset, otherwise the triumvirate completing the starry squad remains Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Tomeka ...

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Article: Book Review

Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View

Read "Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View" reviewed by Harvie S


Bass Notes: Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View Chuck Israels 240 Pages ISBN: 1493074849 Backbeat Books 2024 Chuck Israels developed musically in what many would say was an extremely fertile time in Jazz. I'm talking about the 1960s. Of course, his stint with Bill Evans during ...

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Article: Album Review

اسم  [ism]: Maua

Read "Maua" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Where would the world be without the clang and the clamor of sensory heightened free-jazz blowing purposeful and wild throughout the realm and surrounding tenements? This is an unsung understanding understood by fellow wayfarers, handed down by the elders and experienced by all who listen. Pianist Pat Thomas understands all this and reassures you ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Focus On The Work Of Allison Burik And Some New Releases

Read "A Focus On The Work Of Allison Burik And Some New Releases" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this show we focus on the work of Allison Burik. Also recent releases from Brûlez les Meubles, Biagio Coppa & Intrepid Trio, June Yun, John Rae and Ben Wilcock, Cecil Taylor, Joseph Daley, Jorge Cariglino, and Blue Moods. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Allison Burik “Fragment 94" from Realm (Self Released) 00:54 Bellbird “Bluff" ...

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Article: Album Review

Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black

Read "Jet Black" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The January 2024 release of Jet Black starts the year out right. It is the Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio's sophomore recording, presenting the Japanese pianist in one of her most compelling modes of expression: the piano trio. This is not foreign territory for her. She headed up a superb threesome with drummer Jim Black and bassist ...

Article: Album Review

Albert Ayler: Summertime To Spiritual Unity Revisited

Read "Summertime To Spiritual Unity Revisited" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta del Novecento, una vorticosa accelerazione spinse le arti e alimentò la creatività verso esplorazioni audaci, esprimendo personalità e individualità di valore universale. Autentico visionario, tra urlo febbrile e tenera carezza, tra ruvida e profonda adesione alle radici afroamericane e tensione verso il futuro, tra riferimenti tematici trasfigurati, inni religiosi, marce ...

Article: Album Review

Elisabeth Harnik, Zlatko Kaučič: One Foot in the Air

Read "One Foot in the Air" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Registrato il 14 giugno 2022 alla Kulturhalle di Eggersdorf, in Austria, questo disco documenta un concerto interamente improvvisato andato in scena per la rassegna Musik in Krumegg, protagonisti la pianista austriaca Elisabeth Harnik e il batterista e percussionista sloveno Zlatko Kaučič. Il singolare titolo trova spiegazione nelle foto interne alla copertina, che ritraggono il batterista disteso ...

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More Lost Performances Revisited

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Our Prayer; Japan (Traditional) Universal Indians; Truth Is Marching In / Omega; Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer; Four.

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Article: Play This!

Remembering Tony Oxley: Combination

Read "Remembering Tony Oxley: Combination" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The sad news of the passing of free-spirited English drummer/percussionist Tony Oxley on December 26, 2023, is tempered by the knowledge that his was a life well lived, and his musical legacy a lasting one. As a member of Ronnie Scott's house band in the latter half of the 1960s, Yorkshireman Oxley played with some of ...


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