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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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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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Matthew Shipp: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

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by Mark Corroto
April 4, 2024

Jazz fans are much like baseball geeks; they collect facts and statistics. The baseball fan will know a player's numbers such as on base percentage, at bats, home runs and stolen bases, whereas the jazz fan, maybe better said the jazz fanatic, will note recording dates and lineups, titles, releases and recording engineers. The baseball fan ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz

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by Karl Ackermann
March 25, 2024

Matthew Shipp with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Newman Taylor Baker, issue their fifth album as the most enduring of Shipp's various trios. New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz is another vehicle for the pianist/composer in which to express his singular, intricate vision. The perpetual sea-change artist believes that this album is a substantial leap ahead ...

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Paul R. Harding / Michael Bisio / Juma Sultan: They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

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by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2024

When we speak of poetry and music, should we ask the chicken and the egg question? As in, which came first? Certainly there was music before spoken word, for imitations of bird calls and other nature sounds will have predated language. So, it's settled, right? Maybe, but not so fast. They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday ...

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For Those Who Cross The Seas

By Alon Nechushtan

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Astral Voyages 2. Cosmic Canticles

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They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday

By Paul r. Harding

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2023
Track listing: Forgive, Forgive, Forgive; Accordion Dream; New World Gypsy Dawn; They Tried to Kill Me Yesterday; On a Train Through Oregon; Hair Eyes Lips; Hard to Watch; If She Cried; Heart Asks For / Prison Break; Unheard Lady; Let’s Get Use To; Quietly; Overseas.