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Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra: Cambridge, April 29, 2011
by Andrew J. Sammut
Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra YMCA Theater Cambridge, MA April 29, 2011 A local community center turned into a forward-thinking artistic venue when the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra ascended the small stage at the Cambridge YMCA. The JCAO plays original works by a membership drawn from Boston's ...
"Big Bands Afire: Swing to Beyond" kicks off Jazz Week from JazzBoston
Large ensemble lovers have several options in as many locations for Jazz Week. The Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra holds court at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre with an offer to pay the first 50 attendees to show up. The 19 piece JCA Orchestra will present a concert of new music by resident composers David Harris, Jim ...
Laurence Cook and Eric Zinman - Double Action (Ayler, 2011) ****a1/2
By Stanley Zappa Laurence Cook is a national treasure. Why the cultural machinery would rather embrace bourgeois twaddle rather than reward Laurence Cook with a Guggenheim grant or Macarthur award or the key to the city of Cambridge is one of the more egregious betrayals of our modern day. Cook took the drum seat after Milford ...
West
By Jim Hobbs
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. One - 13.32;
02. Glass - 9:44;
03. Prayers of Death - 7:44;
04. Giant Squid - 8:03;
05. Dan - 8:04;
06. I Love - 4:45;
07. Two - 14:43.
Lawnmower: West
by AAJ Italy Staff
I componenti di questo quartetto sono artisti d'avanguardia trenta/quarantenni che per formazione, esperienza e produzione musicale si collocano in un'area dove le usuali etichette (jazz, rock, elettronica, ambient ecc...) sono inopportune: i generi sono così amalgamati che è impossibile separarli uno dall'altro. Il nome più noto è il bostoniano Geoff Farina, eclettico chitarrista già leader dal ...
Kevin Frenette: Fall River Guitar Guy
by Gordon Marshall
However cool the surface of his music, Kevin Frenette is not content to serve up any sort of “easy listening." The guitarist grew up in Fall River, a small city in southeastern Massachusetts, but the beauty of his music is akin to a sylvan setting--to enter into it is to traverse a forest trail. Some themes ...
Lawnmover: West
by Troy Collins
Drummer Luther Gray explains in the brief liner notes to West, the debut of his ensemble Lawnmower, that the album is an attempt to reconcile the various genres he has worked in throughout his musical development. From his early days spent in punk bands like Tsunami, to his jazz-oriented work as a sideman with fellow Bostonians ...
Joe Morris: Today on Earth; Colorfield; The Necessary and the Possible; Fine Objects
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Joe MorrisToday on EarthAUM Fidelity2009 Joe MorrisColorfieldESP-Disk2009 Joe Morris/Simon H. Fell/Alex WardThe Necessary and the PossibleRecord Label #3Year Joe MorrisFine Objects
Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones
By Jim Hobbs
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2009
Track listing: Moose and Grizzly Bear's Ville; Reptoid Alliance; Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones; Brothers of Heliopolis; Enemy of Both Sides; Pearl's Blues; Conotocarius; Dew of May.
The Same Thing
By Jim Hobbs
Label:
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. December 30, 1994; 02. Everybody Loves Ray Charles; 03. I'm Me And You're Not; 04. Like A Wind; 05. The Same Thing; 06. Lemmings.
