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Article: Record Label Profile

Edition Records: A Guide To The First Fifteen Years

Read "Edition Records: A Guide To The First Fifteen Years" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Edition Records celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2023. The label founded in Cardiff in 2008 by keyboardist Dave Stapleton has come a long way in that time. Initially conceived of as a means to release his own music and that of his friends, Edition Records went from being a cottage industry to a position as one ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Jean-Luc Ponty: Individual Choice

Read "Jean-Luc Ponty: Individual Choice" reviewed by Peter Rubie


By 1982, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty had established an enviable reputation as a pioneer in jazz-rock and jazz fusion. He began as a young bebop player in the late 1950s with little interest in becoming another swing or gypsy style violinist. It was the “sheets of sound" music of John Coltrane that spoke loudest to him. ...

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Article: Album Review

Teus Nobel & Liberty Group: Human First

Read "Human First" reviewed by Phillip Woolever


Highly respected Dutch trumpeter Teus Nobel has forged a distinguished, modern jazz-based discography which includes expertise ranging from small bands to orchestras, and mainstream pop to theatrical show tunes. The third project released by Nobel's Liberty Group progresses along traditional quartet-type experimentation which proves to be some of his most extraordinary work yet; it sounds like ...

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2023

Read "Brilliant Corners 2023" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Brilliant Corners Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity: To Whom Who Buys A Record

Read "Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity: To Whom Who Buys A Record" reviewed by Chris May


In July 2019, Gard Nilssen will be Artist-in-Residence at the prestigious, future-facing Molde Jazz Festival. It will be a busy week for the Norwegian drummer, composer and sonic adventurer. As well as guest appearances, he will perform with several of his bands--SpaceMonkey, an electronica/dance music mash-up he co-founded five years ago; Bushman's Revenge, which may be ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Thandi Ntuli, Frank Zappa, Jason Moran, Soweto Kinch & Other New Releases

Read "Thandi Ntuli, Frank Zappa, Jason Moran, Soweto Kinch & Other New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Welcome to the first edition of Mondo Jazz of 2023! Judging by how the year started, it should be jazz a-plenty as we open with Jason Moran's latest project, released just hours after the new year started, dedicated to James Reese Europe. After that many recent compelling releases, from Thandi Ntuli to Frank Zappa (newly published ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Zappa: Waka/Wazoo

Read "Waka/Wazoo" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Il programma dela pubblicazione di inediti zappiani in occasione del loro cinquantesimo anniversario, iniziato con il box set The Hot Rats Session e proseguito con i cofanetti dedicati alle Mothers del 1970 e 1971 e alla colonna sonora del film 200 Motels, prosegue ora con quello che probabilmente è il titolo più atteso, da tempo annunciato ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Shapiro: Plan To Be Spontaneous

Read "Plan To Be Spontaneous" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


With mallets at the fore, a solid set of originals on the program and a strong cast in the mix, vibraphonist Steve Shapiro's musical voice and vision is clear-- and really something to hear--across this seven-song set. Working under the banner of a perfectly paradoxical title, he makes his mark from a number of angles--those of ...

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Zappa '75 Zagreb / Ljubljana

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: Managua; Stink Foot; The Poodle Lecture; Dirty Love; How Could I Be Such A Fool; I Ain't Got No heart; I'm Not Satisfied; Black Napkins; Advance Romance; Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?; The Illinois Enema Bandit; Carolina Hard-core Ecstacy; Lonely Little Girl; Take Your Clothes Off When you Dance; What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? Chunga's Revenge (Part 1); CD2: Chunga's Revenge (Part 2); Terry's Zagreb Solo; Zoot Allures; Filthy Habits (Prototype); Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; I'm The Slime; San Ber'dino; Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station; Terry's Ljubljana Solo; Zoot Allures.

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Zappa/Erie

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1 - “Someone Has Just Asked Me…”; Cosmik Debris; Pygmy Twylyte; The Idiot Bastard Son; Cheepnis; Inca Roads; Montana; Dupree’s Paradise (Intro).

CD 2 - Dupree’s Paradise; It Can’t Happen Here; Hungry Freaks, Daddy; You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here; How Could I Be Such a Fool; I Ain’t Got No Heart; I’m Not Satisfied; Wowie Zowie; Let’s Make the Water Turn Black; Harry, You’re a Beast; The Orange County Lumber Truck; Oh No; Son Of Orange County; More Trouble Every Day; Camarillo Brillo.

CD 3 - Montana; Get Down; Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme); Stink-Foot; RDNZL; Village of the Sun; Echidna’s Arf (Of You); Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?; Penguin In Bondage; T’Mershi Duween; The Dog Breath Variations; Uncle Meat; Building a Girl; Dinah—Moe Humm.

CD 4 - I’m Not Satisfied; Montana; Dupree’s Paradise (Intro); Dupree’s Paradise; Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow; Tush Tush Tush (End Vamp); Oh No; Son of Orange County; More Trouble Every Day.

CD 5 - The Purple Lagoon; Stink-Foot; The Poodle Lecture; Dirty Love; Wind Up Workin’ in a Gas Station; Tryin’ to Grow a Chin; The Torture Never Stops; City of Tiny Lites; Pound for a Brown; You Didn’t Try to Call Me; Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink; Would You Go All the Way?

CD 6 - Black Napkins; Terry’s Erie ’76 Solo; Patrick’s Erie ’76 Solo; Wonderful Wino; The Purple Lagoon (Outro); Stranded in the Jungle; Dinah-Moe Humm; The Purple Lagoon (Outro); Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; The Purple Lagoon (Outro); You Didn’t Try to Call Me; Black Napkins; The Purple Lagoon (Outro).


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