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Puttin' On The Ritz: White Light / White Heat

Read "White Light / White Heat" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The Velvet Underground's White Light / White Heat (Verve, 1968) was an antidote to insipid pop and a stark contrast to the happier, more optimistic sounds of many West Coast rock bands. Its tales of death, depravity and despair are classics. Puttin' On The Ritz's re-visioning of the entire album--which is available on vinyl and as ...

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Bryan and the Haggards: Pretend It's the End of the World

Read "Pretend It's the End of the World" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Can a saxophone “twang?" If it's a set of music celebrating the sounds of Bakersfield, California's county music legend, Merle Haggard, it had better do just that. And strangely, with Pretend It's the End of the World, by Bryan and the Haggards, the saxophone blowing of altoist Jon Irabagon and the tenorist/leader Bryan Murray find that ...

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Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz

Read "Accomplish Jazz" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Originario di Chicago, newyorchese d'adozione, il chitarrista Jon Lundbom è l'ennesimo fiore sbocciato nel giardino della nuova Brooklyn. Accomplish Jazz è la terza fatica per i suoi Big Five Chord, band completata dal sax tenore di Bryan Murray, dalla batteria di Danny Fischer e da due quarti del terror-bop combo Mostly Other People Do the Killing: ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The experience of listening to the highly gifted quartet Mostly Other Do the Killing (MOPDtK) is like taking a ride on roller-coaster while drunk, but still trusting your life in the hands of a wild driver who often has some epileptic fits. It is fun, no doubt; a wild fun, like going to a circus. But ...

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Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Several wonderful things distinguish Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPDtK) from almost any other band playing today in the long shadows of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman. These are, in no particular order: a wild humor; an extreme sense of the angular melody; brave harmonies; and a leaping sense of rhythm. None of these pay ...

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Charles Evans / Neil Shah: Live at Saint Stephens

Read "Live at Saint Stephens" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Live At Saint Stephens with baritone saxophonist Charles Evans and pianist Neil Shah-- together with the Dan Tepfer/Lee Konitz Duos With Lee (Sunnyside Records, 2009)--is certainly one of the most wildly adventurous records in recent memory. It is not quite entirely spontaneous or improvisational as some of Keith Jarrett's records are. But playing under a magisterial ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Even though jazz is an improvised art that's bursting with the unexpected, some groups stand out as being especially adventurous and wild. In terms of anarchy of sound, Mostly Other People Do the Killing is in a class of its own. On their fourth effort, Forty Fort, the group descends further into musical ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Irreverent devils, aren't they, these four guys who make up the piano-less quartet called Mostly Other People Do the Killing (MOPDtK)? This is Our Moosic (Hot Cup Records, 2008) was a play on Ornette Coleman's This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1960) in title and with the cover photo and design. Forty Fort sports a cover laid ...

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Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz

Read "Accomplish Jazz" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


There is a refreshing, albeit immediate, sense of naïveté about the music of guitarist Jon Lundbom. As the music progresses, however, it becomes evident that Lundbom wears this almost childlike wonder as a rather thin mask, belying a graceful sophistication that marks an apparent determination to go beyond the mere skin of sound. This is eminently ...

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Accomplish Jazz

Label: Hot Cup Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Truncheon; Phoenetics; The Christian Life (Louvin/Louvin); Tick-Dog; Baluba, Baluba.


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