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Soft Machine: Middle Earth Masters
by Clifford Allen
In recent years, followers of the Soft Machine have had a boon of documents that have shown the band's continual refinement as a jazz-rock juggernaut. Most of the live performances that have surfaced have been the “classic early '70s quartet with bassist Hugh Hopper, organist/electric pianist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean and drummer Robert Wyatt. The ...
Nebelnest: ZePTO
by John Kelman
In the decade since they first came together, the members of French progressive band NeBeLNest have managed to create quite a stir. By combining elements of dark symphonic prog rock with the freewheeling experimental élan of Rock in Opposition bands like Henry Cow, the group has garnered a reputation for bringing the innovations of '70s art ...
The Claudia Quintet: Semi-Formal
by AAJ Italy Staff
Memori della gustosa prova precedente, è con ghiotte e baldanzose aspettative che inseriamo nel lettore l’ultimo album del Claudia Quintet. Purtroppo, varcato il primo promettente squarcio, il gusto si guasta un poco e subentra l'amarezza per l'aver osato sperare troppo. Là dove I, Claudia era una precisa sincera originale affermazione d'identità, Semi-Formal raffredda gli entusiasmi e ...
Soft Machine: Middle Earth Masters
by John Kelman
In following the path of seminal British group Soft Machine, there seems to be little to link its mid-1960s emergence as a psychedelic avant-pop band to its guitar-centric fusion at the end of the 1970s. But every evolutionary step revealed a band evolving from one incarnation to the next in logical increments. Middle Earth Masters, culled ...
The Microscopic Septet: Surrealistic Swing
by Nic Jones
The two-disc set Surrealistic Swing, volume two of Cuneiform's “History Of The Micros reissue series, is something of an exercise in retrieval. Tracks 1-8 on the first disc are from Off Beat Glory, originally released in 1986 by Osmosis, whilst the remainder are drawn from a previously unreleased session. The second disc is made up of ...
Richard Pinhas: Metatron
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo è un disco “segnato". Chi, fra i lettori e solo per merito di età, è riuscito a passare attraverso la storia della musica moderna degli ultimi 40 anni, si ricorderà sicuramente dell'oscuro (anche in senso positivo) periodo dei “Kosmische Kuriere" tedeschi e dell'universo elettronico conseguente che inondò le lande europee in quel che restava degli ...
The Microscopic Septet: Seven Men In Neckties
by Chris May
A nearly brassless little big band and a guitarless R&B group all at the same time, the Microscopic Septet was to the 1980s New York Downtown scene something of what the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to its own home town. Both bands were steeped in and respectful of the jazz tradition, but both deconstructed, recalibrated, ...
Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now
by Jerry D'Souza
Cuneiform has unearthed another gem from the '70s British jazz scene in Which Way Now. Bassist Harry Miller was one of the staples of that era, and on this performance from November of 1975, he shows just why. The band here was the original lineup of Isipingo, and while there is a structure to the music, ...
Ed Palermo: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo otto anni da un primo album molto apprezzato, The Ed Palermo Big Band Plays the Music of Frank Zappa, il saxofonista-arrangiatore Ed Palermo ritorna sul luogo del delitto con la sua formidabile big band per riproporre otto arrangiamenti di altrettanti brani scritti dal celebre musicista rock che è diventato allo stesso tempo la sua ossessione ...
The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
by Edward Blanco
Saxophonist and bandleader Ed Palermo has been arranging and performing the music of rock icon Frank Zappa for the last twelve years. 25 years ago he assembled a sixteen-piece big band of New York-based musicians which have played regularly at various Manhattan jazz clubs. This album is Palermo's second recording specifically dedicated to Zappa's original music. ...
