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Article: Album Review

Aaron Novik: Secret of Secrets

Read "Secret of Secrets" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Secret of Secrets is the most ambitious project to date by Bay Area composer and clarinetist Aaron Novik. This dark and epic, deeply personal composition draws its inspiration from the writings of the late 12th century mystic Rabbi Eleazar Rokeach, known as Rabbi Eleazar of Worms. The Rabbi's masterwork, the five-book Secret of Secrets, deals with ...

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Clearing Customs

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Clearing Customs.

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Article: Interview

Dave Douglas: A Creative Consciousness

Read "Dave Douglas: A Creative Consciousness" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Considering trumpeter Dave Douglas' musical career, one word that comes to mind is “consistency." Sure, he's led a dizzying variety of bands playing in all sorts of styles. Yet, of the 30-odd recordings he's led, not one veers from the central mission of presenting challenging, original jazz. An inveterate musical risk taker, Douglas has always led ...

Article: Album Review

Fred Frith: Clearing Customs

Read "Clearing Customs" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Questo progetto di Fred Frith, che vede coinvolti musicisti di diversa nazionalità e formazione, approda alla documentazione ufficiale su CD, a distanza di circa quattro anni dalle esibizioni dal vivo e registrazioni di studio effettuate in Germania sotto l'egida della Südwestrundfunk, in occasione della rassegna New Jazz Meeting. Aiutato con buona probabilità dal lavoro di editing, ...

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Article: Live Review

Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville 2011

Read "Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville 2011" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Canada May 19-22, 2011 The 27th annual Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) was a remarkably consistent four days of concerts. It held high points, to be sure (the Ex, Zeena Parkins, Jaap Blonk), and inevitable low points as well. But there was also ...

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Fred Frith: Clearing Customs

Read "Clearing Customs" reviewed by Nic Jones


Over the decades of his solo career, Fred Frith's music has grown more reflective of the range of his musical interests. As well as being an improviser of significance he has also shown an interest in a diversity of folk musics, with initial signs showing up already, in his work of the late 1970s.

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Article: Book Review

Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis

Read "Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis" reviewed by Chris May


Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis Editor: Daniel Kernohan Paperback; 280 pagesISBN: 9781895166047Chavari Press2010 Music Is Rapid Transportation...From The Beatles To Xenakis is a book many jazz fans would probably like to write. It is, basically, a list of favorite albums. ...

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Article: Album Review

Michiyo Yagi / Elliott Sharp: Reflexions

Read "Reflexions" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Tokyo-based koto player Michiyo Yagi and New York-based guitarist/composer Elliott Sharp have been collaborating since the mid-nineties. Yagi, during her tenure as visiting professor of music at Wesleyan University, was looking for role models who transform the conventions of their instruments, experimenting with sound and musical forms. Sharp was one of these mavericks that Yagi was ...

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Joan Jeanrenaud: The Beat of the Moment

Read "Joan Jeanrenaud: The Beat of the Moment" reviewed by Anil Prasad


Playing it safe is a concept in which cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has total disinterest. Her deep, varied career reflects a restless creative spirit that most recently manifested itself on Pop-Pop (Deconet, 2010), her duo album with producer and percussionist PC Muñoz. The disc seamlessly blends cello, classical, electronica, and hip-hop influences. But, perhaps, the most important ...

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Ragged Atlas

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Snake Eating Its Tail; Round Dance; Pour Albert; R. D. Burman; Falling Up (for Amanda); Out on the Town with Rusty, 1967; Lucky Thirteen; Blimey, Einstein; The New World; Tall Story; For Tom Zé; A Song About Love; Market Day.


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