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Article: Album Review

Levin Torn White: Levin Torn White

Read "Levin Torn White" reviewed by John Kelman


Pity poor Alan White. The British drummer had racked up plenty of street cred playing on projects by then-ex-Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, Joe Cocker and Free's Paul Kossoff, when progressive rockers Yes came knocking in 1973, looking to replace Bill Bruford, who'd departed, on the cusp of massive commercial success, to join up with ...

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News: Recording

Tony Levin, David Torn and Alan White - Levin Torn White (2011)

By Tom Johnson Something keeps pulling guitarist David Torn and bassist Tony Levin together. It's a partnership that blossomed with 1987's Cloud About Mercury, with drummer Bill Bruford and trumpeter Mark Isham, and, for what seemed like an eternity to fans, felt as if it might be a one-off project. In a way, it was. The ...

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News: Interview

Something Else! Interview: Rock Bassist Tony Levin

Something Else! Interview: Rock Bassist Tony Levin

The latest incarnation for bassist Tony Levin, best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, is as part of a fearless new trio album with guitarist David Torn and Yes drummer Alan White. Part prog, part free-form improvisational music, part noise rock, Levin Torn White brings in each of their familiar textures and ...

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News: Recording

Debut Album from Tony Levin, David Torn and Alan White

SENSATIONAL DEBUT FROM NEW TRIO OF VETERANS Some combinations are truly unique, a breed apart that stretches even known factors into interesting new spaces. This is absolutely the case with Levin Torn White, the debut collaboration of powerhouse, ultra-high-end players Tony Levin (bass, Chapman stick), David Torn (guitars, textural events) and Alan White (drums, percussion). The ...

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News: Recording

Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)

Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)

Finally. After more than four years of noting on this space his key contributions to other people's records, including list-topping performances led by David Torn, Chris Potter and Michael Formanek, we get to talk about a record actually led by one of the very top keyboardists working in downtown New York today. That's because a few ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Peter Knoll

Read "Take Five With Peter Knoll" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Peter Knoll: I am a German-American experimental guitarist living in New York City. The band members of my trio are Mark Peterson on bass and Andy O'Neill on drums. I also co-lead the improvisation Quartet “Conundrum" in Europe. I teach guitar in New York. My most famous students were both children of “The ...

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News: Recording

David Torn - Prezens (2007)

David Torn - Prezens (2007)

By Mark Saleski There are guitarists with “chops," and there are guitarists with “feel." These are not mutually exclusive categories, though the longstanding argument often revolves around the idea that a player with the former seldom has much of the latter. It's a pointless argument, especially when there are examples that go so far out as ...

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News: Recording

Forgotten Series: David Torn - Tripping Over God (1995)

Forgotten Series: David Torn - Tripping Over God (1995)

by Tom Johnson David Torn's Tripping Over God is an album that has defied description since the day I bought it in 1995. With only a vague knowledge of the man as a member of David Sylvian's band for the Secrets Of The Beehive album, I happened upon a listening station at the local Tower Records ...

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Article: Interview

Matthew Charles Heulitt: Sonic Magician

Read "Matthew Charles Heulitt: Sonic Magician" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Guitarist/composer Matthew Charles Heulitt has been around for a while, gigging for over a decade in drumming master Zigaboo Modeliste's funk band. Heulitt is also a member of ex-Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden's band; it is therefore no surprise that he displays an acute rhythmic sense in his playing. In fact, Heulitt's ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #190: David Torn

The Jazz Session #190: David Torn

Here's an interview from the early days of The Jazz Session with guitarist David Torn. This is what I had to say about him back then: He's a film composer whose music you've heard in Friday Night Lights, Believe In Me, and The Order. He's also contributed tones and textures to films like this years Best ...


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