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George Thorogood Taught Me To Play Guitar

Read "George Thorogood Taught Me To Play Guitar" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Rounder Records has reissued George Thorogood and the Destroyers' first two recordings, George Thorogood And The Destroyers and Move It On Over. Like many white, middle-class kids, it was through the likes of Eric Burdon and the Animals, John Mayall, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and, indeed, George Thorogood that I learned the African-American tradition of the ...

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Article: Interview

Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions

Read "Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...

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Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House

Read "Anti-House" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

Ingrid Laubrock's trajectory through the music reflects her choice of home. German-born, when she resided in London she was producing Latin jazz, but that proved to be only a passing phase. By the time of Forensic (F-IRE, 2004), it was clear that she was more intent on carving out an idiosyncratic space of her own. Now, ...

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Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ

Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ

Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...

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Article: Interview

Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond

Read "Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk

Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...

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Article: Album Review

James "Blood" Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Read "Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Almost two years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Bad Blood In The City arrives. During its chaotic aftermath, Harmolodic guitarist and futuristic bluesman James “Blood" Ulmer penned a number of tunes inspired by the events surrounding the disaster. Bolstered by a half dozen classic blues tunes, this concept record serves as a harrowing reminder of ...


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