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Article: Interview

Russ Gershon: Time Traveler, Four Million Years Later

Read "Russ Gershon: Time Traveler, Four Million Years Later" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Twenty-five years is a long time in jazz. When saxophonist/composer/bandleader Russ Gershon founded the Either/Orchestra back in 1985, trumpeter Miles Davis was on the crest of his jazz/funk comeback wave, and the so-called Young Lions movement fronted by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was coming into prominence, just as Weather Report--the last of the great '70s fusion bands--was ...

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Charles Tyler Ensemble

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2010
Track listing: Strange Uhuru; Lacy's Out East; Three Spirits; Black Mysticism.

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News: Special Offers

ESP - Disk' Offers Entire Catalog of CD's for $9.98

Independent record label ESP—Disk' is pleased to announce its retail price for all single compact disks will be reduced from $12.98 to $9.98 effective Monday, October 25th for items purchased online at www.espdisk.com. Select double CD's, including the November reissue of “The Complete ESP—Disk' Recordings of Pearls Before Swine" , will be reduced to a $12.98 ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Frode Gjerstad: A Feral Storm from Norway

Read "Frode Gjerstad: A Feral Storm from Norway" reviewed by Clifford Allen


In February 2010, Norwegian alto saxophonist and clarinetist Frode Gjerstad took the collective Circulasione Totale Orchestra to the United States for a few select performances, the first time the multinational group had been convened on American soil and a massive undertaking and feat of organization for the 62-year-old improviser. The orchestra consists of musicians from Norway, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists

Read "David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists" reviewed by Clifford Allen


In the void left by the deaths of saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, among the cheap rents in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn offering space to artists and musicians, the presence of affordable loft spaces birthed an intersection of jazz scenes in the 1970s. The music itself favored a variety of approaches, mostly built on the ...

Article: Album Review

Charles Tyler: Charles Tyler Ensemble

Read "Charles Tyler Ensemble" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


E' inevitabile ricordare Albert Ayler ascoltando questo disco. Il sax dolorante, l'astrattismo imperante, il ricorso agli strumenti ad arco, il parossismo della cantabilità tematica accostata all'esplosione free non lasciano dubbi. E infatti Tyler fu per anni, e anche in molti celebri dischi, parte integrante della cerchia dello sfortunato Albert. Un gigante che a quanto pare ne ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Von Freeman: Vonski Speaks

Read "Von Freeman: Vonski Speaks" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Von Freeman Vonski Speaks Nessa Records 2009 The “musician's musician" is a tiring phrase--assuming that only someone who actually plays an instrument can receive joy from listening to players such as tenor saxpohonists Dexter Gordon, Don Byas and Ike Quebec, trumpeter Dupree Bolton or drummer Walter Perkins. None ...

Album

Charles Tyler Ensemble

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2009
Track listing: Strange Uhuru; Lacy's Out East; Three Spirits; Black Mysticism.

Album

Saga Of The Outlaws

Label: P.S.F. Records
Released: 2009

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Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws

Label: Nessa Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Saga of the Outlaws.


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