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Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings

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by Chris May
September 28, 2010

The arrival of a new star in the jazz guitar cosmos, and the chance it offers to wrest a little more of the instrument back from the smooth and fusion apes, is always something to celebrate. The emergence of Brooklyn-based Mary Halvorson, who debuted as a bandleader in 2008 with Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12 Records), has ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock

September 24, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today! Ingrid LaubrockOriginally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time... more Website | Photos ...

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Article: Live Review

Sleepthief at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, September 7, 2010

by Nick Millevoi
September 13, 2010

SleepthiefArs Nova Workshop at the Philadelphia Art AlliancePhiladelphia, PASeptember 7, 2010The Philadelphia Art Alliance has been one of Ars Nova Workshop's most utilized venues for the past couple of seasons. The room is one of ANW's more formal spaces, featuring hardwood floors and a grand piano on the top floor of ...

News: Radio

Dream-Work

September 7, 2010

In a 2008 interview following the release of the group's debut album on Intakt Records, Ingrid Laubrock articulates Sleepthief's sound: “There's a mysterious, dreamlike feel to some of the music—and also you can be torn right out of it. But in a wholly improvised situation it's not only your own imagination, ears, taste buds and emotions ...

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Tom Rainey Trio: Pool School

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by Chris May
July 24, 2010

Though there are more substantial things to observe about Brooklyn-based drummer Tom Rainey's Pool School, let's start by saying that the disc's hand-tinted, faux 1930s cover art is among the more stylish to have emerged so far in 2010. And even if the imagery is most immediately resonant of summer in Portugal, the Clean Feed label's ...

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Article: Album Review

Kris Davis / Ingrid Laubrock / Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog

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by Chris May
July 9, 2010

There's so much music bursting out of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, and her cultural reference points are so diverse, that you never quite know, as you take a disc out of the sleeve for the first time, what she's going to be up to--aside from going further. The intriguing Paradoxical Frog contains more surprises. Among ...

Article: Album Review

Tom Rainey Trio: Pool School

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 29, 2010

Chiunque abbia avuto il piacere di vedere/ascoltare Tom Rainey [dal vivo o su disco, più probabilmente nei gruppi di Tim Berne] non avrà avuto difficoltà a riconoscere nel musicista californiano uno dei batteristi più originali e versatili della sua generazione - che pure di talenti dietro i tamburi ne annovera molti. Per il primo disco a ...

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Christine Tobin / Liam Noble: Tapestry Unravelled

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by Chris May
June 14, 2010

After seven, mostly self-penned albums on the Babel label, Tapesty Unravelled is something of a departure for the Irish-born, UK-based singer Christine Tobin: all but one of the tunes are covers, and, for the first time, the setting is stripped down to a duo. But as on the earlier albums, Tobin weaves her signature mix of ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sol6: Sol6

by Chris May
February 19, 2010

Sol6 Sol6 Red Note 2010 When All About Jazz first interviewed saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, in 2005, she said: “The older I get the weirder I feel the music is going to be. I have a feel of where it's going and I know it's going to get less ...

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Article: Album Review

Fringe Magnetic: Empty Spaces

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by Chris May
January 28, 2010

Trumpeter Rory Simmons' Fringe Magnetic was a highlight of the F-IRE Collective's festival launching London's smart new concert venue, Kings Place, in late 2008. Now we have the CD, which is released by F-IRE's fraternal co-activists, the LOOP Collective. The distinction between these two collectives, never rigid, is becoming increasingly blurred, as musicians move to and ...