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Luis Lopes: Dark Narcissus

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by Mark Corroto
January 25, 2025

Some argue that one must learn a new language to truly understand the music of Derek Bailey and Cecil Taylor-- Bailey's intricate “alphabet" or Taylor's dense vernacular equations. Interestingly, similar sentiments were once expressed about the now- universally acclaimed work of Thelonious Monk. Without a metaphorical key, some listeners may find themselves unable to unlock the ...

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Bley School: Where?

by John Sharpe
January 9, 2025

Punningly recalling beloved British children's TV programme Play School, the name Bley School neatly encapsulates what is afoot on this album, representing an open-minded and irreverent fondness for tunes, especially those associated with the groundbreaking Canadian pianist Paul Bley. Responsible for this is the threesome of pianist Pat Thomas, bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Tony Orrell. ...

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Uncharted Harmonies

By Perry Como

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Whispered Echoes; Melodic Dissonance; Harmonic Revolutions; Silent Conversations; My Funny Frankenstein; Euripides You Pay for These; Old Man River; When Smoke Gets in Your Nostrils.

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Breath Awareness

By Derek Bailey

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: My Jimny; Diaphragm (guitar solo); Relux or Not Talking; Fukuoka IMAI-House.

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Duck Baker: Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976-1998

Read "Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976-1998" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 4, 2024

This release is a great introduction to the music of Duck Baker and, maybe more importantly, a reminder of why the musician's sound is so vital. Baker, a finger-style acoustic guitarist, is a folk music omnivore. Besides Scottish and Irish fiddle music, he is at home with bebop, blues, free jazz and free improvisation. Let that ...

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Derek Bailey Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness

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by John Sharpe
December 1, 2024

English guitarist Derek Bailey was a regular visitor to Japan, where he was particularly appreciated. Audiences were such that after his first tour in 1978, he reportedly brought home the money to buy a car. As a consequence, he encountered many of the major figures on the country's free improvisation scene, as releases such as Duo ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

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Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974 - 2016

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by Chris May
September 12, 2024

The British drummer and bandleader Tony Oxley passed in 2023, aged 85, after a career which began in the mid 1960s as the drummer in the house band at Ronnie Scott's club. From this prestigious but relatively codified platform, Oxley soon steered into less travelled waters. In 1969 he was in the quartet which recorded John ...

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Brilliant ECM Luminessence Series Shines New Light On Classic Vinyl

by Joshua Weiner
September 5, 2024

Blue Note. Verve. Impulse! ESP-Disk. Just saying the name of such storied jazz record labels immediately conjures up each one's distinct aesthetic, from the music to the cover art. By the close of the 1960s, jazz was undergoing a period of intense change, with an unprecedented mixing and matching of styles and influences--both musical and political--that ...

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Peter Brötzmann / Toshinori Kondo / Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link

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by Mark Corroto
August 5, 2024

As the liner notes to Complete Link by Yoshiaki Kinno state, “In the 1960s, each of them [saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and drummer Sabu Toyozumi] was inspired by free jazz, practiced it themselves and met each other in the process of overcoming free jazz." That is indeed a bold statement. Did he mean to ...