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Article: Live From New York

May 2010

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Adam Lane Brooklyn LyceumBrooklyn, NY April 14, 2010While bassist Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra is named to conjure up great size and bombast, at present it's a compact sextet whose sonic inventory includes passages of nuance and overall calm. With a Bay Area lineup, Lane has released No(w) Music (Cadence, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Cuong Vu / Chris Speed: From The Pacific Northwest To The Atlantic Northeast And Beyond

Read "Cuong Vu / Chris Speed: From The Pacific Northwest To The Atlantic Northeast And Beyond" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo


Myra Melford's Be Bread The Whole Tree Gone Firehouse 12 2010 Jakob Anderskov Agnostic Revelations ILK 2010 Lovedale Coziness Kills ILK 2009

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Article: Live Review

Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010

Read "Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicholas Urie: Excerpts From An Online Dating Service

Read "Excerpts From An Online Dating Service" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Young and gifted American composer/conductor Nicholas Urie had a brilliant idea. Basing his debut suite, Excerpts From An Online Dating Service, on real Internet personal ads collected from cities all over United States and Canada, Urie attempts to transform these coded messages into poetic statements about the current human condition. This is implied by poet and ...

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Esopus Opus

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Key Lime; 02. Manic Depression; 03. Within You Without You; 04. Esopus Opus; 05. Perolas; 06. New Um Talvez; 07. Flying; 09. Murnau on the Bayou; 10. Present Distance; 11. Red Hook.

Article: Album Review

Ben Perowski Quartet: Esopus Opus

Read "Esopus Opus" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Esopus Opus, album che per la prima volta vede il percussionista newyorkese Ben Perowski collaborare con l'etichetta discografica di Chris Speed, Skirl Records, è un disco diviso a metà. Perowski, affiancato dallo stesso Speed al clarinetto e al sassofono, Ted Reichman alla fisarmonica e Drew Gress al basso, passeggia fra brani recuperati dal repertorio firmato da ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus

Read "Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


The New Mellow Edwards Big Choantza Skirl Records 2009 Tyft Smell The Difference Skirl Records 2009 Ben Perowsky Quartet Esopus Opus Skirl Records 2009

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Article: Album Review

Jim Black / Alas No Axis: Houseplant

Read "Houseplant" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Stylistically, revered progressive-jazz drummer Jim Black's Houseplant might not signify a radical departure from his four previous albums for the Winter & Winter record label, spanning 2000-2006. However, Black's substantial imprint on jazz--and here, jazz-rock--offers a mark of distinction due to his quirky, and sly manner of filling in the blanks from behind the kit. And ...

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Ben Perowsky Quartet: Esopus Opus

Read "Esopus Opus" reviewed by Troy Collins


A ubiquitous presence in the Downtown New York scene, drummer Ben Perowsky founded and co-led the proto-fusion band Lost Tribe, served in Elysian Fields, Joan as Policewoman, and the Lounge Lizards, while continuing to perform sideman duties for Steven Bernstein, Uri Caine, Dave Douglas, and John Zorn, among others. An artist with eclectic interests, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Jim Black: One Great Night...Live; Houseplant & Kyrill

Read "Jim Black: One Great Night...Live; Houseplant & Kyrill" reviewed by Wilbur MacKenzie


Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim BlackOne Great Night...LivehatOLOGY2009 Jim Black's AlasNoAxisHouseplantWinter & Winter2009 Achim KaufmannKyrillPirouet Records2009 For almost 15 years, drummer Jim Black's approach ...


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