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Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: Cheap Rent
by Jack Bowers
Yes, the name is intriguing--but what should one expect musically from the San Francisco-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra? Bits and pieces of a number of disparate elements, really, from straight-ahead contemporary motifs to shuffle beats and old-line swing, from down-home New Orleans rhythms to throwback grooves from the '70s and even a seductive ballad. What matters most ...
The Touch and Go Sextet Live at the Novara Jazz Festival
Label: Ninewinds
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1. Slippin' 06:44
2. Horripilation 07:45
3. Waldron 05:39
4. Delusions 12:44
5. Swift Horse 16:34
6.The Last Good Kiss/Dimond Park/Degrees of Gray 18:16
7. Endless Sin * 09:36
8. The Year of the Zinc Penny * 07:27
Touch and Go Sextet: Live at the Novara Jazz Festival
by Robert Bush
Drummer Vijay Anderson formed the Touch and Go Sextet in the Bay Area as a vehicle for performing and interpreting the works of visiting musicians, but his concurrent studies with alto sax legend Roscoe Mitchell gave him the confidence to steer this three-reed, one trumpet and double-bass ensemble into original compositions, the results of which are ...
Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire
by Troy Collins
...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire is an epic four-part suite based on the fictitious songs found scattered throughout celebrated author Thomas Pynchon's early novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow. Oboist Kyle Bruckmann conceived this post-modern “musical phantasmagoria" as the first long-form composition written for Wrack, his experimental chamber jazz ensemble, employing an expanded ...
Rempis - Johnston - Ochs: Spectral
by Glenn Astarita
For this nascent record label's sixth offering, Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis unites with West Coast modernists, saxophonist Larry Ochs (The Rova Saxophone Quartet) and trumpeter Darren Johnston who has been all over the jazz map these days. Here, the trio hunkers down and prepares for battle via cyclonic three-way flurries, dappled with polytonal hues and expansive ...
Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard
by John Sharpe
In something of a departure for the Lithuanian No Business label, young San Francisco-born, NYC-based reedman Steven Lugerner presents a LP of his thoughtfully arranged charts. To breathe life into the notation, Lugerner has assembled a talented crew, which he carefully deploys in varying combinations across the ten cuts. Not only that but he also overdubs ...
Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard
by Glenn Astarita
Multi-woodwind expert Steve Lugerner's solo outing for this Lithuania-based progressive/avant-jazz record label enters the market as a limited edition of only 500 LPs. Get them while they last, as some would say. And it's a very distinctive performance, duly capturing the earthy attributes of this all-star lineup's contrasting song forms and extraordinary synergy, clocking in at ...
The Big Lift
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. The Big Lift; 02. Cut; 03. Rubber Bullets; 04. Glass Ceiling, Paper Floor; 05. Love Call (O.Coleman); 06. Two Ways of Running; 07. The Rock Quarry; 08. Black and Tan Fantasy (D.Ellington).
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Darren Johnston's Gone to Chicago: The Big Lift
by AAJ Italy Staff
The Big Lift testimonia l'incontro del californiano Darren Johnston con un gruppo di amici musicisti tra i più attivi e creativi della scena jazzistica di Chicago. Ne risulta un disco delizioso in mirabile equilibrio tra ebrezza dell'improvvisazione e attrazione per la forma compiuta. Non è un caso quindi se i due standard presenti sul disco portano ...
Cylinder
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
01. The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish(Johnston); 02. Sung by Dogs (Nordeson); 03. The Deep Disciplines (Mezzacappa); 04. Crossings (Shelton); 05. Shells (Nordeson); 06. Four Thoughts (Shelton);
07. Skipped Rocks (Shelton); 08. Sink Town (Johnston); 09. Eartworm (Mezzacappa).
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