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Test: Live/Test

by Derek Taylor
November 1, 1999

Precisely put Test is four improvisers who perform at the pinnacles of guerrilla jazz. They hit hard and fast leaving a wake of gawking mouths and grinning faces among audiences with a taste for the freer, less inhibited realms of improvised music. This year has signaled a break in the quartet’s underground status and has seen ...

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Junior Kimbrough: Meet Me In the City

by Derek Taylor
November 1, 1999

With Kimbrough’s death in early '98 the blues world lost one its most uncompromising and idiosyncratic practitioners. All we’re left with now are posthumous collections like this one that out of necessity are forced to scrape the bottom of the corn liquor barrel for ‘new’ and releasable material. Though not imbued with the same level of ...

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Steve Lacy Trio: The Rent

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 1999

For someone as relentlessly prolific as Lacy the number of trio recordings attributable to the his name are a comparative few. This two disc set goes a long way towards bolstering the number. With long-time compatriots Avenel and Betsch in tow Lacy affords himself the opportunity to stretch out at length in front of an enviably ...

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Walt Dickerson: A Patch of Blue

by Derek Taylor
October 1, 1999

The number of recordings featuring Sun Ra as a sideman can easily be counted one hand and this disc’s near legendary status in the fringes of jazz folklore stems largely from his presence here in just such a capacity. Dickerson’s sparse 60’s discography is even greater reason to celebrate the reissue of this previously scarce material. ...

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Charles Gayle 3: Abiding Variations

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by Derek Taylor
September 1, 1999

Often denigrated and lauded in equal measure, Charles Gayle is perhaps the most iconoclastic jazz musician of the 90's. His penchant for fundamentalist-grounded religious diatribes and earlier bouts with homelessness frequently garner as much press as his monolithic musical prowess. He is a master at inciting both heated vocal reaction and awe-struck, gaping stares among his ...

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William Parker's In Order to Survive: Posium Pendasem

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 1999

Wood and metal, strings and sweat. With these terrestrial materials and a seemingly bottomless store of imagination William Parker has crafted some of the most celestially expansive music in the history of jazz. At first glance such a contention may appear rash and circumspect. Take a listen to virtually any of the discs Parker has graced ...