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Univers Zero: Heresie

by Nic Jones
January 29, 2011

This reissue of Univers Zero's second album serves as a reminder as to how its singular vision--especially with the passing of decades (such a tricky notion, given the nature of the music)--has been upheld with an extraordinary collective force of will. The usual terms apply--as much as anything the group has ever committed ...

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Led Bib: Bring Your Own

Read "Bring Your Own" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
January 21, 2011

Led Bib has never been an easy ensemble to pigeonhole: according to critics and reviewers the band is “punk jazz," free improvisation, avant-garde, skronk, dirty jazz--and, most splendidly, “death-jazz-cum-math-punk." On the evidence of the London-based band's fourth album, Bring Your Own, it's all of the above, and a little bit more. This is music for dancing, ...

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Led Bib: Bring Your Own

Read "Bring Your Own" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
January 18, 2011

Writing about Led Bib's Mercury Prize-nominated album, the raucous and confrontational Sensible Shoes (Cuneiform, 2009), Britain's Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper--which speaks with as much authority about jazz as Murdoch's Fox News speaks about politics--declared: “Led Bib are the band bringing jazz back to contemporary music's cutting edge." A slightly more measured response came from ...

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The Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth - The Micros Play Monk

Read "Friday the Thirteenth - The Micros Play Monk" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 4, 2011

One of New York City's favorites, The Microscopic Sextet's 30-year run has seen a dormant period, but has been revitalized via its affiliation with Cuneiform Records. With its fourth release for the label, Thelonious Monk's influence and eternal spirit yields a wittily entertaining facelift via the septet's customary off-center expansions on bop and swing, to complement ...

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Transmit - Vol. 2 of the Music of Steve Lacy

By Kirk Knuffke

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. As Usual; 02. Flakes; 03. The Dumps; 04. Longing; 05. Clichés; 06. The Breath; 07. Papa’s Midnite Hop.

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The Two Faces Of Janus

By Jason Robinson

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Return to Pacasmayo; The Two Faces of Janus; The Elders; Huaca de la Luna; Tides of Consciousness Fading; Cerberus Reigning; Persephone's Scream; Paper Tiger; Huaca del Sol; The Twelfth Labor.

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Time & Motion

By Martin Archer

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD 1: 1. Kairos, 2. The Clockwork Time Dragon, 3. Aeon, 4. Chronos, 5. Equatorial Pitch, 6. Fission Ships Pt. 1. CD 2: 1. Maybe A Last Look At Joe's House , 2. Fission Ships Pt. 2, 3. Nine:Four:One, 4. 30 Years (Slight Return).

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Old Stuff

By New York Art Quartet

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Rosmosis; Sweet Smells; Old Stuff; Pannonica; Kvintus T; Pa Tirdag; Old Stuff; Cool Eyes; Sweet V; Karin's Blues; Kirsten.

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NDR Jazz Workshop: Hamburg, Germany May 17, 1973

By Roy Babbington

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD: 01. Fanfare; 02. All White; 03. Link1/Link2; 04. 37 1/2; 05. Link 3; 06. Riff; 07. Down the Road; 08. Link 3a; 09. Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album; 10. Chloe and the Pirates; 11. Gesolreut; 12. E.P.V.; 13. Link 4; 14. Stumble; 15. One Across; 16. Riff II DVD: 01. Fanfare; 02. All White; 03. Link1; 04. The Soft Weed Factor; 05. Link2; 06. 37 1/2; 07. Link 3; 08. Riff; 09. Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album; 10. Chloe and the Pirates; 11. Gesolreut; 12. E.P.V.; 13. Link 4; 14. Stumble; 15. One Across; 16. Riff II; 17. 1983 (bonus solo audio); 18. Encore Improvisation/Stumble Reprise (bonus solo audio)

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