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Returning

By Bob Gluck

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Lifeline; Returning; That's All You Got; By a Field; There's No There There; Vertigal; Something Quiet.

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Bob Gluck Trio: Returning

Read "Returning" reviewed by Henry Smith

by Henry Smith

The piano trio can be a difficult format for free playing. It is too easy for the piano, so easily a dominating instrument, to overshadow the bassist and drummer, rendering them as backup to the more harmonically complex keyboard. This is fine, and an enormous amount of great music has been made in this format, but ...

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Bob Gluck Trio: Returning

Read "Returning" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The piano trio, in one form or another, has been a jazz staple since the 1930s, and consequently skews toward the familiar. Fortunately, there are those atypical artists who invite a deeper dive for the uninhibited. Nothing could be more challenging, interesting and listenable than the music Bob Gluck creates within that formation. Like his Something ...

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Song of the Day

By A Field

Album: Returning
By Bob Gluck
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 5:56

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Song of the Day

Lifeline

Album: Something Quiet
By Bob Gluck
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 8:00

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Bob Gluck: Something Quiet

Read "Something Quiet" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Julliard-trained pianist Bob Gluck's heart lies within the adventurous free jazz uprising of the 1960s and electronic music. This harmonically appealing acoustic date subliminally intimates his penchant for both genres, an album framed in a cunning fusion of ambient, jazz improvisation and concrete song forms. Gluck and bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan engage for ...

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Cash Cows

By Compassionate Dictatorship

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Mushroom Effect; The Winkel Picker; Alien Landscape; Mr Mish Mash; Computers; Six Degrees; Emotional Baggage; Both Sides Now.

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Compassionate Dictatorship: Cash Cows

Read "Cash Cows" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Compassionate Dictatorship inhabits a musical space where modern jazz and '60s-era Canterbury scene progressive rock meet. It's a strange space, ready to trap the unwary in a muddle of English whimsy or to reward the more enlightened with warm melodies and inventive but accessible tunes. Compassionate Dictatorship is an enlightened combo and the reward is apparent ...

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No Now Is So

By Alexander Hawkins

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Prelude (unidentified Spanish bebop selection #1); Sarah Teaches Kirsty to Read; Baobabs; Nuru Light: The Prince of Peace; Whirligig; 120:4; toc/tic/kiss; Old Time Folk Music from Oxford; Love in Outer Space (aka Unknown Kohoutek"); Greenford Breakdown; Cowley Road Strut: Message from the East (for Pat Thomas).


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