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Houseplant

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Inkionos; 02. Cahme; 03. Houseplant; 04. FYR; 05. Malomice; 06. Littel; 07. Elight; 08. Naluch; 09. Cadmium Waits; 10. Adbear; 11. Lowers in a Nine Sense; 12. Downsturm. Tutti i brani sono di Jim Black.

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Endangered Blood

Label: Skirl Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Plunge; Rare; Epistrophy; Elvin Lisbon; K; Tacos At Oscars; Iris; Uri Bird; Valva; Andrew's Ditty Variation One.

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The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?

Read "What Is the Beautiful?" reviewed by Troy Collins


Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...

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Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light

Read "Good Old Light" reviewed by Troy Collins


Branching out from his duties in The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, drummer Dave King formed the Dave King Trucking Company to explore a highly personalized take on Americana that he describes as “if the great Nashville bands of the '60s and '70s could improvise and were Coltrane fanatics." Building on this idea, King and company ...

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Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy

Read "Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The year 2011 is proving to be a fruitful one for Japanese composer and improviser Satoko Fujii. In addition to a world tour, she has released three albums (all on June 21) on her own Libra record label, each in a different setting and in the company of different musicians. Her only constant companion, through all ...

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Take Five With Jackson Evans

Read "Take Five With Jackson Evans" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jackson Evans: Based in Savannah, Georgia, Jackson is known throughout the southeast as an in-demand band leader, composer, arranger and accompanist. In addition to organizing several regional tours he has performed in concert series and festivals including an appearance as a featured guest at the Savannah Jazz Festival.Jackson holds a BM ...

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Undead Jazz Festival: Day 4, June 26, 2011

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Day 4, June 26, 2011" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Undead Jazz Festival New York, New York June 23-26, 2011 The last night of the Undead Jazz Festival, which had paraded its way from the chic, well-lit streets of the West Village down into the depths ...

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Undead Jazz Festival: Day 2, June 24, 2011

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Day 2, June 24, 2011" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Undead Jazz FestivalNew York, New YorkJune 23-26, 2011 Sometimes a great idea just begs to be used again. The first performance of Search and Restore's “round-robin style" improvisation cycle last December proved its worth went beyond novelty. ...

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Undead Jazz Festival: Day 1, June 23, 2011

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Day 1, June 23, 2011" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Undead Jazz FestivalNew York, New YorkJune 23-26, 2011 If 2010's Undead Jazz Festival were the first installment in a series of zombie films, then the first day of the 2011 season was a sequel picking up where ...

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Brad Shepik Quartet: Across The Way

Read "Across The Way" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


One of the modern day pioneers of integrating Balkan music into the progressive jazz vernacular, guitarist Brad Shepik's solo and session career spans a comprehensive panorama. He lingers on the cutting-edge of matters amid collaborations with like-minded artists, such as trumpeter Dave Douglas, reedman Chris Speed and other jazz VIPs. And on this quartet date, Shepik ...


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