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Medeski, Martin & Wood: Radiolarians I

by Ryan Lippell
October 15, 2008

Medeski, Martin & WoodRadiolarians IIndirecto Records2008 Devised for commercial effectiveness, the traditional record label model is precisely defined: artists write new music, then record that music, then market and tour to spread the word and generate sales. The model is predicated on compartmentalization and a ...

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Philip Glass: Glass Box - A Nonesuch Retrospective

by John Kelman
October 2, 2008

Philip GlassGlass Box - A Nonesuch RetrospectiveNonesuch Records2008 Recent studies have proven that music is one of the few disciplines to utilize the entire brain--the left "analytical" side and the right "creative" side. There's no denying the creative aspect of music making, but equally there's a ...

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Graham Collier: Deep Dark Blue Centre / Portraits / The Alternate Mosaics

by Nic Jones
October 1, 2008

Graham Collier Deep Dark Blue Centre / Portraits / The Alternate Mosaics BGO Records 2008 This is the second chapter in BGO's reissue program of bassist/bandleader Graham Collier's work from the late 1960s and early 1970s. It gives listeners a chance to catch up with some ...

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Esbjorn Svensson: Leucocyte

Read "Leucocyte" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 30, 2008

It's too easy to fall into the trap of calling the last recording by a recently deceased artist “his best ever" or “a fitting end to his recorded legacy," but in the case of the final release by Swedish jazz superstars e.s.t. before their titular leader, pianist Esbjörn Svensson, died in a tragic diving accident in ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah

by Clifford Allen
September 28, 2008

Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa Records 2008 One of the significant things that set AACM music apart from its brethren in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s was its use of space, of opening up the music so that things could occur within broad, environmental ...

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Ignaz Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos 1 and 2; Sinfonia Concertante

by C. Michael Bailey
September 27, 2008

Dieter Klocker, Sandra Arnold, Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Sebastian Tewinkel Ignaz Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos 1 and 2; Sinfonia Concertante CPO 2008 The clarinet did not arrive fully formed in the hands of Alcide Nunez, Larry Shields, and Johnny Dodds for them to provide a schizophrenic counterpoint ...

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Charles Pillow: Part 3 - The Planets

by Victor L. Schermer
September 26, 2008

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Charles Pillow The PlanetsArtistShare2007 This review follows Charles Pillow: Part 1--Crossing the Divide between Jazz and Classical Repertoire, an introduction to the work of the reed player and composer, and Charles Pillow: Part 2--Pictures At An ...

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Charles Pillow: Part 2 - Pictures at an Exhibition

by Victor L. Schermer
September 25, 2008

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Charles PillowPictures At An ExhibitionArtistShare2005 This review follows Charles Pillow: Part 1--Crossing the Divide between Jazz and Classical Repertoire, introducing the reed player and composer's work, and is followed by Charles Pillow: Part 3--The Planets a review ...

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Charles Pillow: Part 1 - Crossing the Divide between Jazz and Classical Repertoire

by Victor L. Schermer
September 24, 2008

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 While jazz began as a form of entertainment, it has evolved into a more serious musical genre. Its multiple roots in gospel, blues, popular, folk, Caribbean, African, and other world musics give it a complexity and richness tailor-made for extended musical explorations and through-composing. In addition, ...

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Jazz Warriors: Afropeans

by Ian Patterson
September 14, 2008

Jazz Warriors Afropeans Destin-E Records 2008 It is probably no coincidence that saxophonist Courtney Pine resurrected the name Jazz Warriors for the fifteen musicians assembled to perform Afropeans, a work commissioned by the Arts Council of England to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act ...