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News: Recording

The Engines - Wire and Brass (Okkadisk, 2010) ****

By Joe Higham From what I read on The Engines website this album was recorded live in 2008 at the Hungry Brain (Chicago), shame it's taken so long to get the CD out. So here's your chance to get to hear the second helping (*) of The Engines, a group coming from the windy city, made ...

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Article: Album Review

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Montreal Parade

Read "Montreal Parade" reviewed by Troy Collins


Since joining the Vandermark 5 in 1999, saxophonist Dave Rempis has maintained a high profile in the fertile Chicago scene. In addition to his role as a presenter and organizer of numerous music festivals, he can be heard as leader, co-leader and collaborator in more than a half dozen different projects in the Windy City, with ...

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Article: Album Review

Scorch Trio: Melaza

Read "Melaza" reviewed by John Kelman


Human nature may tend towards resisting change, but shaking up a group--even one with a longstanding and successful lineup--can sometimes drive the music in subtly different directions. Losing Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love may have seemed like a blow change for Scorch Trio, but recruiting Frank Rosaly--who moves around in the same circles as Nilssen-Love, playing with ...

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Article: Album Review

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Montreal Parade

Read "Montreal Parade" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Descriptive misdirection seems to be an important element in some sectors of the jazz world today. A group called The Nels Cline Singers puts out records where nary a vocalist can be found, and The Rempis Percussion Quartet is two members shy of being a full-fledged percussion outfit. While Cline's band uses a moniker that lacks ...

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Article: Album Review

Ballister: Bastard String

Read "Bastard String" reviewed by Mark Corroto


There is something special about watching jugglers perform. It is a marvel how the juggler can seemingly interrupt the laws of gravity at will, keeping balls (or chainsaws) suspended through sheer tenacity. Such it is when listening to Ballister perform the three lengthy improvised pieces on Bastard String.As the juggler doesn't rely on willpower to ...

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Wire and Brass

Label: Okka Disc
Released: 2010
Track listing: Trouble Distribution; Red Cage; Next Question; Four Feet Of Slush; Free Range.

Album

Cyrillic

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Antiphony; Tainos; Thief of Sleep; How to Cross When Bridges Are Out; Still Will; Don't Trade Here; In Plain Sight.

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Article: Album Review

Vandermark 5 Special Edition: The Horse Jumps And The Ship Is Gone

Read "The Horse Jumps And The Ship Is Gone" reviewed by John Sharpe


In their early days, the Vandermark 5 gave founder and reed man Ken Vandermark, the opportunity to workshop and road test fresh ideas. His writing skills have now been honed to such an extent that he is one of the most consistently inventive small group composers around, and the V5 has become one of the great ...

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Article: Live Review

Vandermark 5 and Atomic: Double Bill at the Vortex in London

Read "Vandermark 5 and Atomic: Double Bill at the Vortex in London" reviewed by John Sharpe


Vandermark 5 and AtomicThe VortexLondonSeptember 16, 2010It was difficult to avoid a frisson of pleasurable anticipation at the sight of the handwritten sign proclaiming “Totally sold out" taped onto the door of north London's Vortex Jazz Club. A feeling compounded by the presence of the BBC's mobile recording unit parked outside. ...

Article: My Playlist

Dave Rempis

Read "Dave Rempis" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


01. Tony Oxley - 4 Composition for Sextet (Sony Music - 1970). Un incredibile documento di parte della British scene - Oxley, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford, etc.- che suona lunghe composizioni di Oxley. E nientemeno che su una MAJOR... 02. AA.VV. - Master Fiddlers of Dabgon (Rounder - 2001). Una grande testimonianza di musica ...


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