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Compassionate Dictatorship: Coup d'Etat
by Ben McDonnell
An eclectic amalgam of improvisation, strong melodic themes and rhythmic twists is perhaps the best way to characterize Coup d'Etat, the debut album by Compassionate Dictatorship. Comprised of four of London's most prominent jazz musicians--Jez Franks (guitar), Tori Freestone (sax), Jasper Hoiby (bass) and Ben Raynolds (drums)--Compassionate Dictatorship manages to achieve a ...
Mark O' Leary: Signs
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Mark O'Leary's plight is perhaps akin to one who seeks an eternal betterment of modern-improvised music, where styles and fertile ideas connect and provide nourishment for a fertile musical plane. Recorded in California with notables, bassist Steuart Leibig and drummer Alex Cline, the trio professes some down-home ruckus, while occasionally throttling back the momentum into ...
Trevor Watts: Burundi Monday
by Francis Lo Kee
American listeners may know Trevor Watts as an accomplished alto/soprano saxophonist, but more likely they will associate him with the British avant-garde. Now in his late sixties, Watts logged a lot of time with blues, rock and traditional jazz bands before joining drummer John Stevens in 1965 to form the Spontaneous Music Ensemble ...
The Bright Lights, The Big Time
By Paul Rogers
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Bright Lights; The Big Time.
Paul Rogers / Kevin Norton / Nick Didkovsky: The Bright Lights, The Big Time
by Glenn Astarita
This venture is actually the antithesis of what its title may intimate. It isn't the kind of thing you'd hear amid the glitz and glamour on Broadway. Even Kevin Norton suggests that listening with the lights turned off would perhaps heighten the overall experience. The music is firmly entrenched within the freer realm, yet it would ...
Approaching
By Janne Tuomi
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ofrenda, Approach, Keskus, Kohtaaminen, Contemplation.
Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1
By Kevin Norton
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Knots; Number Nine, Number Nine; Cutting Across; Quark Bercuse; Tradition-Revision-
Decision; Cold Day in May-Newspaper Article about the Dead in Iraq; User
Kevin Norton: Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Solo music is perhaps the most challenging kind of all. With no place to hide, it's just the musician communicating to the listener. Percussion music presents additional challenges for both the performer and audience, since untuned instruments, like drums and cymbals, lack obvious melodic qualities and tuned instruments, like marimba and xylophone, are not inherently harmonic. ...
