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Article: Year in Review

Ken Hohman's Best Releases of 2010

Read "Ken Hohman's Best Releases of 2010" reviewed by Ken Hohman


Year end lists seem to overlook so much, but in a way that's a good thing. After all, it means that good jazz is plentiful these days. The truth of the matter is I spent a great deal of 2010 exploring all the overlooked releases from the past two years. And with so much jazz being ...

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Protest Heaven

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Still Building Your Life on Fear; Your Concrete; Get Mine; Stock Pile; Light Up; No Dark; Let Live; Animal, Big Tree & River Steam.

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Varmint

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Green Grass; Varmint; Dagger; Hide; I Hope She is Awake; Punchbug; The Griots.

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Sun Rooms

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Get In There; Life; Stake; Rose Garden; You Can't; Off My Back Jack; Overtones Of China; Warm Valley.

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Article: Album Review

Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms

Read "Sun Rooms" reviewed by Nic Jones


It's clear from Sun Rooms, perhaps more than from any of his previous efforts on record, that Jason Adasiewicz is offering something pretty personal. Sure, it's possible to name check both '60s-era Bobby Hutcherson and Walt Dickerson as points of reference, but they serve simply to highlight the fact that Adasiewicz is--for want of a better ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts

Read "Empathetic Parts" reviewed by Troy Collins


The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has nurtured the talents of Chicago's most inventive artists since 1965. Drummer Mike Reed, the venerable organization's recently appointed Vice Chairman, repays the favor on Empathetic Parts, with his longstanding quintet, Loose Assembly, by welcoming one of the Association's original founders, multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell, as featured guest ...

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Article: Album Review

Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes

Read "Stars Have Shapes" reviewed by Nic Jones


This release by the Exploding Star Orchestra is one of those rare examples of a present day unit able to travel to other places. Under the direction of cornet player and composer Rob Mazurek they've come up with a program of music which incorporates advances outside of the jazz tradition even while it strikes an extraordinary ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms

Read "Sun Rooms" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Jason Adasiewicz is making the vibraphone a necessary ingredient for music making in this century. His mallets have been featured in recordings by Josh Berman, Jason Ajemian, Harris Eisenstadt, the Lucky 7s, and Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra.As a leader, his two recordings with Rolldown, the self-titled 2008 disc on 482 Music and Varmint ...

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News: Recording

Delmark Records New Jazz and Blues Releases for the Fall!!

DELMARK RECORDS—New Releases for September and October 2010 Street Date September 21, 2010 Junior Wells & The Aces—Live in Boston 1966 (Delmark DE 809) This live recording takes us back to just a few months after the release of the legendary Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark 612) album. Junior is accompanied by the Aces—Louis Myers, guitar; Dave ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Ajemian: Protest Heaven

Read "Protest Heaven" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Bassist Jason Ajemian assembled a company of improvisers in December, 2006 at Heaven Gallery in Chicago as part of a music series he had been curating since 2002. The assemblage named Jason Ajemian's Daydream Full Lifestyles contained the infamous Chicago Underground players Rob Mazurek (trumpet), Chad Taylor (drums) and Jeff Parker (guitar), plus the well-traveled Tony ...


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