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Denman Maroney Quintet: Udentity

Read "Udentity" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 29, 2009

In this fascinating 2009 release, leader Denman Maroney morphs the avant-garde implications of hyperpiano fare into a semi-structured progressive jazz endeavor with tunes that are largely melodic and uncannily attainable. The artist derives influence from avant-garde composers John Cage and Henry Cowell, who used nuts, bolts and other implements to perform on the piano via unconventional ...

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Cameron Brown: Here and How! Volume 2!

Read "Here and How! Volume 2!" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
May 29, 2009

Bassist Cameron Brown has had a long and illustrious career as a sideman. He has appeared on around 100 recordings, providing an anchor for luminaries such as Archie Shepp, Roswell Rudd and Beaver Harris, as well as the celebrated Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet. In 2003 Brown stepped out as a leader with Here and How!, culled ...

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Inside the Piano: Germinal; Gold; The Ill-Tempered Piano; Udentity

by Marc Medwin
May 9, 2009

Agusti Fernandez & Ingar ZachGerminalPlastic Strip2008 Magda Mayas & Tony BuckGoldCreative Sources2009 Nicola CipaniThe Ill-Tempered PianoLong Song2009 Denman MaroneyUdentityClean Feed

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Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 25, 2009

Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...

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The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone

Read "Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 18, 2009

The MacroQuarktet features a crème de la crème of New York's progressive jazz and improvisational contingent, although the respective instrumentalists know no bounds due to variable stints with like-minded artists across the globe. Recorded live at the Manhattan venue The Stone, the quartet--or, wittily cited as the Quarktet--casts an impressionistic aura into the rather expansive connotations ...

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Denman Maroney: Udentity

Read "Udentity" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 14, 2009

Denman Maroney, the sole practitioner of “hyperpiano," has a singular technique that is a natural extension of the pioneering efforts of such visionary composers as John Cage, Henry Cowell and George Crumb. Expanding on the well-established practice of augmenting the interior strings of the piano with found objects, Maroney bows, plucks and scrapes the strings with ...

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Jam Session, Vol. 22

By Dave Ballou

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2007

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Regards

By Dave Ballou

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tenderly; Labels; Bemsha Swing; Bumpus; If I Should Lose You; Regards; I Remember You; Blues. Total time: 65:19.

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Dave Ballou: Regards

Read "Regards" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
August 15, 2005

The best bands create collectively. You can tell when that's truly happening by their comfort in subtle comping--or in laying out altogether. Which is not to say they can't play with combined fire when it is called for. That's the key, and what you'll hear throughout trumpeter Dave Balllou's latest recorded adventure. In ...

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