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Gary Husband's Drive: Hotwired

by John Kelman
February 16, 2009

Gary Husband's Drive Hotwired Abstract Logix 2009 Keeping one foot in the jazz tradition and the other on a path to where the music not just can go, but must go is a dicey challenge, even for the most forward-thinking. In many respects, it's the musicians who have spread themselves well ...

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Disassembler: Fear Is The Mother Of Violence

by Chris May
February 12, 2009

Disassembler Fear Is The Mother Of Violence 33 Jazz 2008 Led by guitarist and composer Trevor Warren, Disassembler brings together half a dozen outward-looking British jazz musicians in a jazz and post-rock mix with Native American, Albanian and Mongolian flourishes. The adventurous and attractively rough-edged Fear Is The ...

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Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers: Epic Journey, Volumes I & II

by Jay Deshpande
February 6, 2009

Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers Epic Journey, Volumes I & II Innova Recordings 2008 Still a young man, reed player Adam Niewood is a hard-to-pigeonhole enigma for jazz fans. He sounds equally comfortable across a broad range of instruments (the tenor saxophone is his mainstay); his education ...

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The Bad Plus / Wendy Lewis: For All I Care

by Jeff Vrabel
February 4, 2009

The Bad Plus / Wendy Lewis For All I Care Heads Up International 2009 If you are The Bad Plus, and you've spent your acclaimed and wacky career dismantling pop and jazz tunes down to their barely recognizable components--spreading those components around like bike pieces on a garage floor and ...

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Don Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two

by Henry Smith
January 30, 2009

Don Cherry Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two ESP Disk 2008 Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry has long been a somewhat enigmatic figure. His well known beginnings with saxophonist Ornette Coleman soon gave way to Cherry's increasing interest in world music, where he would become an important ...

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Jon Hassell: Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street

by Henry Smith
January 28, 2009

Jon Hassell Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street ECM Records 2009 Coinciding with his first tour of the States in over twenty years, trumpet player and self-described Fourth World musician Jon Hassell returns to ECM for his first release on the label since ...

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Augustus Pablo: The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 23, 2009

Augustus Pablo The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story Shanachie 2008 Jorge Luis Borges wrote The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim in 1936. On first reading, it's a book review of a detective novel by an obscure Indian lawyer. Except that there was no such book; the “review" is ...

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John Coltrane: The Impulse! Albums - Volume Three

by Chris May
January 21, 2009

John Coltrane The Impulse! Albums - Volume Three Impulse! 2009 With this latest edition of the Originals box sets collecting saxophonist John Coltrane's albums for the Impulse! label, the series reaches the critically-polarised period immediately following the release of A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965). Five albums are included--The ...

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CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy

by John Kelman
January 20, 2009

When borders are eliminated, infinite possibilities arise. Perhaps the greatest achievement of ECM Records- -especially during its first decade, when it was establishing the unique identity and aesthetic that has made it such a significant force over the past forty years--has been its ability to bring together artists of seemingly different backgrounds to create music that ...

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Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

by Clifford Allen
January 19, 2009

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...