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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
by Jerry D'Souza
Ed Palermo first saw Frank Zappa performing in 1969, and that was to become a life-altering vision which would enlarge his perspective of what music could and should be. The fact that he migrated to jazz and picked up the saxophone while in university a few years later did not change the effect that Zappa wrought. ...
Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now
by AAJ Italy Staff
Isipingo è stato certamente uno dei gruppi inglesi degli anni settanta meno documentato su disco. Un progetto molto interessante, certamente figlio dei gruppi misti che si crearono sin dalla metà degli anni sessanta a Londra con il coinvolgimento di musicisti locali e musicisti provenienti dal Sudafrica. L'esempio più noto è rappresentato dalla 'Brotherhood of Breath' di ...
Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now
by John Kelman
The remarkably large and intersecting jazz and progressive rock community of late-'60s and early-'70s England is enough to give any discographer nightmares. But within that group a few key players came together more often than most, including a contingent which had escaped South Africa's apartheid. Harry Miller was one such artist, an in-demand bassist who appeared ...
Soft Machine: Grides
by John Kelman
Given the ongoing release of archival live recordings by Soft Machine, you have to wonder if we'll ever reach a saturation point, especially with the heavy emphasis on the British jazz/rock group's 1969-71 lineup with the recently deceased saxophonist/pianist Elton Dean, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper and drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt. So many recordings are already ...
Hamster Theatre: The Public Execution of Mister Personality / Quasi Day Room: Live at the Moore Theatre
by John Kelman
While countless artists are busily dissolving artificial boundaries between musical styles, it's still shocking to hear a group just plain nuke them. Hamster Theatre does exactly that on this two-disc set presenting alternate yet not dissimilar aspects of this genre-busting group spearheaded by multi-instrumentalists/composers Dave Wiley and Jon Stubbs. The release includes the studio recording The ...
Soft Machine: Grides
by Nic Jones
Any notion of a golden age should always be treated with the utmost scepticism, but the more time passes, the clearer it becomes that the decade from 1965 to 1975 witnessed perhaps the last great step in the evolution of jazz and its relationship with other musical forms. Jazz-rock fusion was destined to peter out in ...
Mujician: There's No Going Back Now
by Nic Jones
This quartet has been together for a long time, and its music has been documented on CD before. All of this is abundantly obvious in the single 45-minute piece on this disc. Within the first two minutes it becomes readily apparent that this is an extraordinarily empathetic group, each member constantly alert to the contributions of ...
Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now
by Chris May
South African emigre Harry Miller was at the heart of a freewheeling, and in pockets Rabelaisian, circle of improvisers who shot through London like meteors in the 1970s and lit up everything around them. They burned bright and fast, and several of the key members, particularly the several South Africans among them, died tragically young. Miller ...
Soft Machine: Grides
by Clifford Allen
Soft Machine Grides Cuneiform 2006 1970 was a banner year for the Soft Machine. Their profile amongst the European avant-garde jazz and psychedelic rock communities was raised by a headline-grabbing gig at the Proms, the British music establishment's annual celebration of, in the main, classical and symphonic composition and performance. ...
The Claudia Quintet: Semi-Formal
by Judith Insell
To paraphrase the great Bill Evans, “jazz is not so much a style, but a process of making music. John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet is deeply immersed in this process. Semi-Formal is an interesting synergy of improvisation, Steve Reich-like minimalism and changing moods effected by varying grooves: techno rave drums, pseudo and authentic hip-hop, and polyrhythmic patterns. ...
