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Roine Stolt and Neal Morse: Degrees of Separation

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by John Kelman

2011 has been a banner year for progressive rock, the genre that emerged in the late 1960s, peaked in the mid 1970s, and was threatened with extinction (certainly from a commercial perspective) with the advent of punk and new wave. Of course, prog never went away, and the music of seminal bands such as King Crimson, ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation

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by Mark Redlefsen

On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, “Moon In June," ...

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Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM): The Manticore Years

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by John Kelman

While other important Italian bands emerged in the heyday of the 1970s, such as Le Orme and Banco, when it comes to progressive rock, none can hold a candle to Premiata Forneri Marconi, commonly known in the English language world as PFM. Whether PFM is better or worse than any of these other groups is fodder ...

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IQ: The Wake Deluxe Edition

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by John Kelman

IQThe Wake: Deluxe EditionGiant Electric Pea2010 In the wake of punk/new wave's emergence in the mid-1970s, progressive rock underwent massive restructuring and a shift from mainstream popularity to niche status. By the latter half of the decade, Emerson, Lake & Palmer had already begun to implode in a ...

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Article: Film Review

Jaga Jazzist: Live at Cosmopolite

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by John Kelman

Jaga Jazzist Live at Cosmopolite Smalltown Supersound 2010 With 30 dates already performed in 2010 since the release of One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010)--its first studio record in five years--Jaga Jazzist is keeping the momentum of its comeback rolling, with a variety of free download tracks and a vinyl-only remix EP, ...

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Jaga Jazzist: Bananfluer Overalt

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by John Kelman

At a time when the amount of new music being released each and every month is at an all-time high, it's hard enough for artists to get their music heard, let alone maintain momentum between releases. For many, gigging is the only way to ensure their names remain on the radar, but for bands like Jaga ...

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Gentle Giant: Santa Monica 1975

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by AAJ Italy Staff

I Gentle Giant sono stati una delle band di rock progressivo inglese più amate nel nostro paese. La loro profonda competenza musicale aveva saputo colpire la fantasia di una generazione di appassionati che era partita col rock per poi spaziare verso il jazz e la musica che sapeva fondere diverse influenza, compresa quella della musica classica. ...

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Live in Santa Monica 1975

By Gentle Giant

Label: Glasshouse Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Cogs in Cogs; Proclamation; Experience; So Sincere; Advent of Panurge; For Nobody #1; For Nobody #2.

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Gentle Giant: Live in Santa Monica 1975

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by John Kelman

With DRT's 2005 35th Anniversary remasters of much of Gentle Giant's back studio catalog, the opportunity to hear this remarkable 1970s progressive rock band in performance from back in the day is being embraced by a new group of fans--many who were too young (if even born) at the time. Live in ...

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Article: Film Review

Gentle Giant: Giant on the Box

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by John Kelman

Gentle Giant Giant on the Box Alucard 2004 Amidst the plethora of so-called progressive rock bands of the '70s, Gentle Giant stood out as a group like no other. By the time of the performances documented on this newly-released DVD, Giant on the Box , Giant had settled into the ...


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