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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival, Days 3-5: New York City, NY, June 13-15, 2012

Read "Vision Festival, Days 3-5: New York City, NY, June 13-15, 2012" reviewed by John Sharpe


Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 | Days 6-717th Annual Vision FestivalRouletteBrooklyn, NYJune 11-17, 2012Wednesday night at the Vision Festival was given over to the celebration of a lifetime of achievement by multi-instrumentalist, Joe McPhee, a deserving and popular choice. In presenting him with the envelope (presumably holding a check), ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival, Days 1-2: June 11-12, 2012

Read "Vision Festival, Days 1-2: June 11-12,  2012" reviewed by John Sharpe


Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 | Days 6-717th Annual Vision FestivalRouletteBrooklyn, NYJune 11-17, 2012For the 17th annual Vision Festival, organizer Patricia Nicholson Parker and her team had assembled one of strongest lineups in many years. Alongside many luminaries of the New York free jazz firmament, including accomplished working bands ...

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Article: Album Review

Elliott Sharp Trio: Aggregat

Read "Aggregat" reviewed by Robert Bush


Elliott Sharp is a musical provocateur of the highest order. Having developed his own distinctive voice on a wide variety of instruments, on Aggregat he focuses on tenor and soprano saxophones and guitar.His trio-mates were wisely selected. Double bassist Brad Jones has illuminated sessions by everyone from pianist Muhal Richard Abrams to pop-vocalist Sheryl ...

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Article: Album Review

Elliott Sharp Trio: Aggregat

Read "Aggregat" reviewed by Troy Collins


Long revered for his innovative approach to the electric guitar, composer Elliott Sharp's laudable but lesser known skills as a saxophonist finally come to the fore on Aggregat. Accompanied by bassist Brad Jones and drummer Ches Smith, Sharp performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, in addition to his main axe. In light of Sharp's oeuvre, this ...

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Article: Album Review

Daunik Lazro / Jean Francois Pauvros / Roger Turner: Curare

Read "Curare" reviewed by John Sharpe


Silence could be the fourth member of the group responsible for the cooperatively derived Curare, joining the French pairing of reed supremo Daunik Lazro and guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros with English drummer Roger Turner. As the four cuts are sourced from two live dates some 20 months apart, this cross-Channel aggregation is clearly not a one-off. Lazro ...

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Ostryepolya

Label: Emanem
Released: 2011

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Binibon

Label: Henceforth Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Binibon Overture; 02. Fun City Days; 03. Take a Knife; 04. The Scene; 05. Susie and Johnny; 06. Irreversibility; 07. The Writer’s Mind; 08. Intracte; 09. Contessa; 10. Fabuluscious (and the Waiter); 11. Murder and…; 12. What A Crime; 13. Epilogue.

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Snowplow

Label: Emanem
Released: 2011

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The Age Of Carbon

Label: Emanem
Released: 2011

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News: Recording

Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields - Afiadacampos (Neos, 2010) ****

Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields - Afiadacampos (Neos, 2010) ****

By Paul Acquaro According to Scott Fields' website, this recording with Elliot Sharp, Afiadacampos, came out in 2010, which on the cusp of 2012, makes me a little more than fashionably late. Apologies for my tardiness, however, I am pleased to report the music has not aged a bit. I think the first thing that stuck ...


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