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Industrial Jazz Group: The Star Chamber

Read "The Star Chamber" reviewed by Chris May


The Industrial Jazz Group was formed in '00 by pianist/composer Andrew Durkin as a sort of (very sort of) Art Ensemble of Chicago. But whereas AEC set out to celebrate the relatively focused and well-defined macro-genre “Great Black Music," Durkin's IJG includes all modern music in its sights, from Edgar Varese and Olivier Messiaen through George ...

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Rene Ford: Unsentimental

Read "Unsentimental" reviewed by Jon Opstad


The Innova web site describes this recording as sounding like what a collaboration between Sun Ra, John Coltrane and beat poet Ted Joans might have turned out like. At least in terms of Ford's tenor playing, Gato Barbieri is probably a better comparison than Coltrane. This is especially evident on “Playing With Fire," where the overall ...

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Dead Cat Bounce: Home Speaks To The Wandering

Read "Home Speaks To The Wandering" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini


Their music defies easy description, but there's no trouble understanding why they keep winning awards and polls as Boston's best jazz band. Dead Cat Bounce blends everything from traditional big band to uber free jazz into a thick and inexplicably coherent canvas on their third album, Home Speaks To The Wandering. A record store ...

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Dead Cat Bounce: Home Speaks to the Wandering

Read "Home Speaks to the Wandering" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Dead Cat Bounce is about attitude. The saxophone quartet with rhythm section is definitely not your typical garden variety combo. With highly orchestrated material injected with taut musicianship and a sense of wittiness, the group has been lauded in the press and in their hometown of Boston. Their new recording Home Speaks to the Wandering continues ...

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Year of the Snake

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Parade (Field) (5:29) 2. Year of the Snake (Peterson/Field/Herschman/Paull/Pilkington/VanBeever) (2:22) 3. Soul Makossa (Dibango) (5:37) 4. Soul Power (Brown) (5:04) 5. A Call For All Demons (Sun Ra) (6:56) 6. Central Square (Field) (5:51) 7. Some Nerve (Scofield) (4:29) 8. El Choclo (Villoldo) (5:18) 9. Iko Iko/Aicho (Crawford/Field) (5:43) 10. I Got It (Field) (4:25)

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Black Ants Crawling

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Christmas (11:50) / Yellow Robot (9:34) / God Has Smiled on Me (5:59) / Fishy Story-For Django- Saturday Night What Th

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CHiPS

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. CHiPS 2. Goliath 3. Scabies 4. Car Bomb 5. Karaslama 6. Masana 7. For You 8. Esspi 9. Robot Love 10. Our Country

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Afrijazz

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Greetings; Oprenten #6; Message; Kid's-Kondo-Da; Akampa; 'Round Midnight; Ghana Gumbo; Fine Fine Baby; Worship; Thank You.

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City of Angles

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Theme from City of Angles; Most Adaptable of All Weed Species; Interlude in Krupa; Void When Detached; Tribute to Chrome; Pince Nez; Tuxedo Trouble; Now That's What I Call Music; Mwahaha; Full-on Freak; Losing Proposition; Los Feelies; Dear Sir or Madam; Anger Management Classes

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Duets (Wesleyan) 2002

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Composition 304 (+ 91, 151, 164); Scrabble; To Wait; All Roads Lead To Middletown; Improvisation; Composition 305 (+ Language Improvisations, 44).


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