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Madeleine Dreams

Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: hush; le petomane; lesson; metamorphosis; objects lost on journeys; hush (reprise); What Reason Could I Give; The Mooche; Angels and Demons at Play.

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Tapestries For Small Orchestra

Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: Motorcycle '66: Reflections And Ruminations; Slivers: Sand Dance For Sophia; Phrygian II; Adagio: Slow Mauve Scribblings. CD2: Allusions; Tapestries; Durations Of Permanence; Innocenenza. DVD: Bill Dixon: Going to the Centre.

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Byzantine Monkey

Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: La Reine de la Salle; Acrid Landscape; Run For The Hills; Blind Pig; Ciao Monkey; Cajun Christmas; Fez; For A.H.; Fez II; New Belly.

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Sided Silver Solid

Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Rope/Rim...; Modern Enunciator; Phoenicia & Cordelia; Basic Botany; Sensation Whereby Space; Sex Cog; ...Rope/Rim.

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Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra

Read "Tapestries for Small Orchestra" reviewed by John Sharpe


Back in 2007 Firehouse 12 Records announced itself in an audacious declaration of intent with release of Anthony Braxton's 9 CD+DVD box set Nine Compositions 2006. Now in a move of similar ambition the label has gone someway to redressing the imbalance in composer/trumpeter Bill Dixon's recorded output, with this handsome two CD + DVD set ...

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John Hebert: Byzantine Monkey

Read "Byzantine Monkey" reviewed by Stuart Broomer


John Hébert's Byzantine Monkey begins with a loop of the traditional “La Reine de la Salle" sung by Odile Falcon in an ancient reedy voice, Hébert's improvised bass joining in, his lines at once swift and empathetic, lyrical and microtonal, his sound deeply resonant and every metallic buzz of string and finger captured. It's an arresting ...

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Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra

Read "Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra" reviewed by Nic Jones


Bill Dixon Tapestries For Small Orchestra Firehouse 12 2007 When this double-CD/single-DVD set hits the market in November 2009, trumpeter Bill Dixon will be 84 years old. In an ideal world--and on the basis of this release that's the world Dixon inhabits--age wouldn't be an issue. His work is that ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

Read "Madeleine Dreams" reviewed by Ivana Ng


Madeleine Dreams is about as odd as the novel upon which it is based. Taylor Ho Bynum and SpiderMonkey Strings weave deftly through the magical realism of Madeleine is Sleeping, a novel written by Bynum's sister Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Vocalist Kyoko Kitamura flows through the divide between dream and reality with grace. She ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum / Spider Monkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

Read "Madeleine Dreams" reviewed by John Sharpe


That this is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's fourth leadership date so far this year speaks volumes about his growing stature as a bandleader, writer and virtuoso instrumentalist. Justly known as one of celebrated composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton's foremost interpreters over the last decade, Bynum's star now shines even more brightly in the creative music firmament, thanks to ...

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Carl Maguire's Floriculture: Sided Silver Solid

Read "Sided Silver Solid" reviewed by Lyn Horton


The second recording for pianist Carl Maguire's group Floriculture, Sided Silver Solid, presents a refined sensibility for instrumentation that demonstrates its potential for a larger, even orchestral, application. Accompanied by the members of his quintet, violist Stephanie Griffin, reedman Oscar Noriega, bassist John Hebert and drummer Dan Weiss, Maguire exercises his capacity for charting sonic courses ...


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