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Article: Extended Analysis

Chicago II (Steven Wilson Remix)

Read "Chicago II (Steven Wilson Remix)" reviewed by John Kelman


It's rare that an opportunity presents itself to directly compare a high resolution remaster with a high resolution remix, but with last year's Quadio (Rhino) box set containing Blu Ray Audio versions (at 24-bit/192KHz) of its first nine studio recordings (including, curiously, a completely superfluous, early Greatest Hits package) and the recent, single-disc reissue of Chicago ...

Article: Interview

A dialogo con Andrea Massaria

Read "A dialogo con Andrea Massaria" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Nel 2009 intervistammo il chitarrista triestino Andrea Massaria, allora autore di alcuni dischi in trio e in quartetto, di genere abbastanza convenzionale ma di ottima fattura, che stava avvicinandosi a un universo per lui nuovo, fatto di sperimentazione e improvvisazione radicale, testimoniati dal CD con il Chladni Experiment Trio, 5053, e dalla partecipazione a una conduction ...

Article: Album Review

The Ed Palermo Big Band: One Child Left Behind

Read "One Child Left Behind" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Quando il chitarrista/sassofonista, compositore e big band leader Ed Palermo decise di dedicare un intero concerto come tributo a uno dei musicisti che più avevano influenzato la sua formazione musicale da poco scomparso, non immaginava certo quanto la sua vita professionale sarebbe cambiata in poco tempo. La sua big band era in attività dal 1977, con ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Soldier: The Eighth Hour Of Amduat

Read "The Eighth Hour Of Amduat" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Let's be honest, this extraordinary recording isn't going to float everyone's boat. However, there are a lot of highly praiseworthy elements to be assimilated in this hour long CD. Dave Soldier (real name Dr. Dave Sulzer, a neuroscientist at Columbia University) has assembled an avant-garde jazz opera based on the oldest known musical score (the 8th ...

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The Rare Tapes Broadcast (Garden City, New York 31 December 1974)

Label: Parachute Recording Company
Released: 2016
Track listing: Introduction; Tango Chat; Pygmy Twylyte / Dummy Up; Be-Bop Tango Excerpt; The Story Of Dupree's Paradise; Yellow Snow Suite; Guitar Event; Bebop Tango Contest; Outro;

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The Crux Of The Biscuit

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: FZ Early Sequence For Apostrophe' Side 1, Dated 6/30/73; Cosmik Debris; Uncle Remus (Mix Outtake); Down In De Dew (Alternate Mix); Apostrophe' (Mix Outtake); End Of Early Sequence ; The Story Of "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/St. Alphonozo's Pancake Breakfast"; Don't Eat The Yellow Snow/St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast (Live); Excentrifugal Forz (Mix Outtake); Energy Frontier (Take 4); Energy Frontier (Take 6 With Overdubs); Energy Frontier (Bridge); Cosmik Debris (Basic Tracks - Take 3); Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (Basic Tracks - Alternate Take); Nanook Rubs It (Basic Tracks - Outtake); Nanook Rubs It (Session Outtake); Frank's Last Words.....;

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Article: Album Review

Morten Schantz: Godspeed

Read "Godspeed" reviewed by Roger Farbey


The three Scandinavian musicians featured on Godspeed are also members of the eclectic JazzKamikaze quintet. By 2014, Morten Schantz had released eight albums, four as a soloist and four with JazzKamikaze. Saxophonist Marius Neset has played alongside Django Bates and Anton Eger is also drummer with Phronesis. JazzKamikaze produces a fairly frenetic sound whereas Godspeed is ...

Article: Lyrics

Things We Like: Novembre 2016

Read "Things We Like: Novembre 2016" reviewed by AAJ Staff


By VIC ALBANI Se state cercando un grande regalo musicale per il prossimo natale, ecco uno dei più dischi più belli e interessanti degli ultimi anni, sopra ogni etichetta, sopra ogni genere. Before the Dawn, raccoglie lo straordinario ritorno sulle scene “una tantum" di sua maestà Kate Bush, vale a dire la ...

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Article: Album Review

Billy Jenkins: True Love Collection

Read "True Love Collection" reviewed by Roger Farbey


A few facts to dispense with first. True Love Collection now reissued as a download-only release, coincided with this album, originally released in 1998, being voted number 36 in BBC Music Jazz's 50 greatest jazz albums, announced in mid-November 2016 to coincide with the start of the London Jazz Festival. It's also been re- mixed and ...

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Article: Album Review

Zarabande: El Toro

Read "El Toro" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Alfred “El Toro" Flores has been on the San Antonio music scene for more than 30 years, playing in a number of different bands and genres. He's also something of a multi-instrumentalist, in addition to marimba, he plays vibraphone, xylophone and guitar. El Toro reflects Zarabande's proclivity for his own brand of electrifying Latin jazz.


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