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Article: Album Review

The Nice Guy Trio: Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio

Read "Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Give three imaginative artists a yearlong residency in a performance space, located in a breeding ground for creative music and the results hopefully will turn out to be something like Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio. Canadian trumpeter Darren Johnston, now living in the Bay area of San Francisco, spent a year making music ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009

Read "Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12Since its inception in 2005, the Norwegian Punkt festival has been gaining an international reputation for innovation and creativity. With a founding premise of Live Remix--where individual concerts, crossing the breadth of jazz but also beyond, are remixed immediately following the performance with other ...

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Article: Interview

Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar

Read "Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar" reviewed by Guillem Vidal


Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954) comparece puntualmente a su cita con All About Jazz en una mesa del bar del Auditori de Barcelona contigua a la que ocupa en ese momento Horacio Fumero, el contrabajista de Tete Montoliu. Estamos entre el edificio donde el pianista imparte clases de improvisación en jazz y música contemporánea ("el ...

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Article: Album Review

Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone

Read "Of The Body Prone" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hard-core music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg, are “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band Ahleuchatistas certainly does know ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Fred Frith: To Sail, To Sail, Pas de Deux & The Big Picture/Still Urban

Read "Fred Frith: To Sail, To Sail, Pas de Deux & The Big Picture/Still Urban" reviewed by Marc Medwin


Fred FrithTo Sail, To SailTzadik2008 Fred Frith, Danielle Palardy RogerPas de deuxActuelle2008 Fred Frith and Arte QuartettThe Big PictureIntakt2009 Fred Frith and Arte Quartett

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Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues

Read "I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Without playing “name that tune," it is easy to mistake Jon Irabagon and Mike Pride's one song, 48-minute recording for one by Bill Laswell's Massacre. Same energy, same intensity, and volume, lots of volume. Funny, because this is an acoustic duo between saxophone and drums, while Massacre is a trio of drummer Charles Hayward, ...

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Article: Live Review

10th Bray Jazz Festival

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10th Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2009 The small town of Bray in county Wicklow is not the most obvious location for an international jazz festival. Situated twenty kilometers south of the capital Dublin and hugging the coast, it has been battered by the Irish Sea since at least 1300, ...

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Article: Album Review

Fred Frith and Arte Quartett: Still Urban / The Big Picture

Read "Still Urban / The Big Picture" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Per cominciare con una battuta, spesso e volentieri si raccontano facezie e storielle varie sulla Svizzera di cioccolato e mucche, ironizzando simpaticamente a mo' di Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo sui grandi luoghi comuni attorno alle storie elvetiche. Mi domando se, oltre a ciò, anche i più attenti si accorgano di quanta intelligenza e lungimiranza stanno invece ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Fred Frith and Arte Quartett: Still Urban / The Big Picture

Read "Fred Frith and Arte Quartett: Still Urban / The Big Picture" reviewed by Nic Jones


Alongside a career as an independently-minded improviser, guitarist Fred Frith has maintained a track record as a “formal" composer. Whilst these two roles might on the surface appear contradictory, Frith has over the years managed effortlessly to maintain them. Thus, the composed content on Still Urban and The Big Picture is for the Arte Quartett, on ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set

Read "The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set" reviewed by John Kelman


While modern recording technology and fast improving online distribution capability are making it easier to appreciate the full extent of today's artists' work, the same cannot be said about relatively short-lived groups from the 1970s. This is especially true of groups that, despite being in some cases remarkably influential, remain cult favorites with a relatively small ...


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