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Jazz At Atlas Kicks Off 2019 Season With Thumbscrew

Jazz At Atlas Kicks Off 2019 Season With Thumbscrew

This cooperative project features a trio of gifted musicians and composers—guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer/percussionist Tomas Fujiwara—performing their own compositions and selected standards with an exacting prowess wed to a liberated swing that is glorious to behold. Thumbscrew performs on Saturday, March 30 at 8 PM. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Carter: Seraphic Light [Live At Tufts University]

Read "Seraphic Light [Live At Tufts University]" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Questa registrazione scaturisce da un incontro organizzato nel 2017 dalla Tufts University di Medford, Massachusetts, a pochi chilometri da Boston. Sotto il titolo “Art, Race and Politics in America" si presentava il concerto con Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker e una discussione sul ruolo degli artisti neri innovativi in America, oggi. Cosa si possa intendere ...

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Article: Album Review

Tibor Prettschnöder: The Largo And The Lame

Read "The Largo And The Lame" reviewed by Mark Corroto


By now it is generally accepted that there is such a category as Germanic free improvisation. One separate from the Peter Brötzmann, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Günter Sommer, Peter Kowald, Manfred Schoof, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, etc, etc. school of free jazz that machine-gunned its way into the European scene of the late 1960s. These new rebels ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee

Read "At The Hill Of James Magee" reviewed by John Eyles


The roots of this album lie in two previous John Butcher recordings, his four solo pieces recorded in the resonant Oya Stone Museum, Utsunomiya City, Japan, in November 2002, which featured on Cavern With Nightlife (Weight of Wax, 2004), and Resonant Spaces (Confront, 2008) which documented a 2006 tour he made of various resonant sites--including a ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee

Read "At The Hill Of James Magee" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The music of saxophonists Joe McPhee and John Butcher has habitually been centered on place. By that I mean environment, the situation and setting for sound creation. We can go all the way back to McPhee's Tenor (Hat Hut, 1977), his ghostly recording laid down in a farmhouse in Adlemsried, Switzerland, or, more recently, the astonishing ...

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Article: Album Review

Riverloam Trio: Live At The Alchemia

Read "Live At The Alchemia" reviewed by John Sharpe


Recorded at Krakow's legendary jazz club, Live At The Alchemia constitutes the third outing from what has become a perfectly-balanced unit, following the eponymous Riverloam Trio (NoBusiness, 2012) and Inem Gortn (FMR, 2014). Although, traditionally, Polish reedman Mikolaj Trzaska might be seen as the apex of a musical pyramid, supported by the solid foundation provided by ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mette Rasmussen and new releases

Read "Mette Rasmussen and new releases" reviewed by Bob Osborne


This week we focus on Mette Rasmussen, new releases from Endangered Blood and Master Oogway and a selection of recent and archive cuts. A more avant-garde/free selection than usual, but still a compelling playlist! Playlist Endangered Blood “Passion Fruit Birthday Cake" from Don't Freak Out (Skirl Records) 00:00 Master Oogway “Eddapliks Pt.1 Kan ...

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Imaginary Numbers

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: i; A; Zero Supreme Love.

Album

From Outer Space

Label: Roaratorio Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Overture; Space Travel; Arrival; A Peaceful Resolution; Plea; Shadow of the Sun Suite: Parts One Through Four; Shadow of the Sun Suite: Part Five Aftermath.

Album

A Pride Of Lions

Label: The Bridge Sessions
Released: 2018
Track listing: Track 01; Track 02; Track 03; Track 04; Track 05.


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