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Article: Album Review

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

Read "10th Bray Jazz Festival" reviewed by Ian Patterson


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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The Happy End Problem

Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2008
Track listing: "Imitation": Ukon; Kira; Kio; Tan; Shi--o; Beni; Kasumi; Sumi; Hanabira. "The Happy End Problem": The Happy End Problem.

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The Technology Of Tears

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2008

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Unsquare

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. G - 14:16; 2. Nitrogen - 14:07; 3. Saptharishi Mandalam - 7:52; 4. Septentrion - 6:17; 5. Unturned - 17:21. Tutti i brani sono improvvisazioni collettive.

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Pas De Deux

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2008

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Still Urban

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2008


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