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Ivo Perelman: Brass And Ivory Tales

Read "Brass And Ivory Tales" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 16, 2021

Archeologists and cultural anthropologists theorize early humans had some form of music appreciation. They listened to the sounds wind made as it passed through trees. The breeze sounded different passing through oak than it did fir trees, and the sound was altered whether it was spring or fall. Then there were the bird songs, the first ...

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Impending Discomfort

October 24, 2021

Album: Klotski
By Gordon Grdina
Label: Attaboygirl Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 7:20

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Angel Bat Dawid, Barry Altschul & Kevin Sun

by Maurice Hogue
August 18, 2021

Lots of new things sampled in this episode with Chicago culture maker Angel Bat Dawid's Hush Harbor Mixtape: Doxology highlighting the bunch. She does everything on this one which is another chapter in her mission to, as she puts it, “sonically eradicate the white supremacy system." A best-of for 2021 I think. Enterprising young saxophonist Kevin ...

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Ivo Perelman: The Purity of Desire

Read "The Purity of Desire" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 8, 2021

Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman prolifically documents his work, his discography growing almost by the week. But he finds new things to say and new ways of saying them, even with his most regular collaborators. Witness the stream of superlative recordings he has made with pianist Matthew Shipp. But, at the same time, the New York-based Brazilian ...

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Theo Bleckmann & The Westerlies: This Land

Read "This Land" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona
February 20, 2021

Could This Land, from Theo Bleckmann & The Westerlies be the first great musical declaration of the Biden Era? If so, it's probably an accident. When they tracked This Land in August 2019, Bleckmann and the brass quartet entered the studio with a program of protest songs. But in degree and kind, they are ...

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Safar-E-Daroon

By Gordon Grdina

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Safar-e-Daroon: El Baz : Mini-con; Calling on You; Shamshir; Convergence; Illumination; Outsize; Gabriel James.

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Life is a Gong Show

By Petr Cancura

Label: RootsToBoot Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Traure; Burning Bright; Awake; Cinema; Jojis; Cluster; Non-Fiction; Sun Sets in the West; Moanin'; Sideways; Mary Go Round;

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