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Hubert Laws: In The Beginning

by Dan Bilawsky
July 5, 2011

Hubert LawsIn The BeginningCTI Masterworks2011 (1974) The release of a double album during the LP-era could be a double-edged sword. This format provided a platform for artists to elaborate on their ideas and serve a hefty portion of music to their fans and potential followers, but a ...

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Goran Kajfes: X/Y

by Chris May
July 1, 2011

Goran KajfešX/YHeadspin Recordings2011 Best known for his work with the timewarp friendly Swedish band Oddjob, Croatian-born trumpeter Goran Kajfeš has released two solo albums during the last decade--on each of which he too has had one foot planted in retro ground and the other in more modern ...

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The Vinny Golia Octet: Music for Baritone Saxophone

by Robert Bush
July 1, 2011

Vinny Golia OctetMusic For Baritone SaxophoneNine Winds Records2011 Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has been both the beacon and a touchstone for the West Coast free improvising community, particularly in Los Angeles, for over 30 years. Golia started his Nine Winds label in 1977, as a vehicle for ...

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Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 2011

Aretha FranklinTake a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on ColumbiaColumbia2011 Were we to limit our musical intelligence gathering to banal “classic rock" radio, we would believe that singer Aretha Franklin's career began in 1967, that she only recorded one song, Otis Redding's “Respect," and recorded for a single ...

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Jokleba: Jokleba! / nu jok?

by John Kelman
June 26, 2011

Jøkleba Jøkleba! / nu jøk? Universal Music AS, Norway 2011 (1992) It was the show of the year. When veteran bassist Dave Holland had to pull out of his performance at Norway's Vossa Jazz 2011 due to a serious family illness, the festival approached another veteran with a desperate plea ...

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Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me The Blues

by Chris May
June 26, 2011

Billy JenkinsJazz Gives Me The BluesVOTP Records2011 If the title Jazz Gives Me The Blues suggests that London guitarist/vocalist Billy Jenkins is hacked off with jazz, you would be right. Kind of. What Jenkins objects to is the gentrification and institutionalization of jazz, once--a quantum leap from ...

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Art Pepper: Blues for the Fisherman

by C. Michael Bailey
June 22, 2011

Art PepperBlues for the FishermanWidow's Taste2011 Laurie Pepper has been the lightning rod for the music of her late husband, Art Pepper, since the saxophonist's death at 56 in 1982. She took proper control of his musical legacy in 1981 on the advice of the couple's accountant, ...

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Neal Morse: Testimony Two Special Edition

by John Kelman
June 19, 2011

Neal MorseTestimony Two: Special EditionRadiant Records 2011 There are those who've claimed that rock music is “the Devil's Music," but for Neal Morse it's been just the opposite. Born again while leading Spock's Beard--on the vanguard of a new wave of symphonic progressive rock gaining traction in the ...

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Sebastian Rochford & Pamelia Kurstin: Ouch Evil Slow Hop

by Chris May
June 17, 2011

Sebastian Rochford & Pamelia KurstinOuch Evil Slow HopSlow Foot Records2011 For eighty years, the Theremin has hovered on the fringes of music like a freak show exhibit at a carnival. Since its invention by Leon Theremin in 1928, it has been used mainly for novelty and, occasionally ...

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Bill Evans: The Sesjun Radio Shows

by Dan McClenaghan
June 15, 2011

Bill EvansThe Sesjun Radio ShowsOut Of The Blue/Naxos2011 (1973-79) Pianist Bill Evans (b. 1929, d. 1980) changed the way of the piano trio, beginning with a handful of brilliant studio recording for Riverside Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A pair of live recordings for ...