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Article: Album Review

Dennis Gonzales Boston Project: No Photograph Available

Read "No Photograph Available" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dennis Gonzalez, una delle figure più eclettiche del panorama jazzistico internazionale: trombettista, compositore, direttore, produttore, broadcaster, pittore, poeta, linguista ed educatore, partecipe delle più diverse esperienze musicali, da Stoccolma a Ljubljana, dalla Polonia a New Orleans, da Lisbona a Dallas, dove risiede ed ha sede l’etichetta discografica di cui è proprietario (Daagnim Records). Circostanza vuole che ...

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Article: Live Review

Joe Morris Organ Trio at Tonic

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Joe Morris Organ Trio Tonic 107 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, New York City, USA August 10, 2006 In the midst of a late summer downpour, guitarist Joe Morris premiered his newest ensemble on the stage of Tonic, the Lower East Side's venerable avant-garde jazz mecca. Featuring fellow ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joe Morris: Beautiful Existence and Rob Brown: Radiant Pools

Read "Joe Morris: Beautiful Existence and Rob Brown: Radiant Pools" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Improvised music is based on conviction, the belief in the “rightness of what one is playing, a sort of forward-moving directive of sound hinging in part on the ability of one's work to stand equally with the entire history of music (to paraphrase art critic Michael Fried). But improvisation, though certainly a defining action, is also ...

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Joe Morris: Beautiful Existence

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Il chitarrista Joe Morris continua a tenere alta la bandiera del free jazz anche nell’ambito dello strumento che forse meno si è caratterizzato e manifestato in quella corrente così importante della nuova musica. L'approccio di Morris è in qualche modo poco modernista (non usa effetti particolari, non fa ricorso a scenari elettronici, sta di solito all’interno ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Morris: Beautiful Existence

Read "Beautiful Existence" reviewed by Troy Collins


Although guitarist Joe Morris has proven himself to be an accomplished upright bassist since adding the instrument to his arsenal in 2001, it is on the guitar that he truly shines, and nowhere more so than on Beautiful Existence. Temporarily setting aside his recently adopted instrument for his first axe, Morris leads his quartet ...

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Article: Interview

Joe Morris: Singularity, Part 1-2

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Part 1 | Part 2 Joe Morris first started playing the guitar in 1969, at the age of 14. He immediately took to the instrument and started a long process of self-instruction. During his high school years, he spent time playing with other students and listening to a wide variety of recorded and live music. Morris's ...

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Article: Interview

Joe Morris: Singularity, Part 2-2

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Part 1 | Part 2 Joe Morris first started playing the guitar in 1969, at the age of 14. He immediately took to the instrument and started a long process of self-instruction. During his high school years, he spent time playing with other students and listening to a wide variety of recorded and live music. Morris's ...

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Age of Everything

Label: Riti Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Tree Branch; Way In; Age of Everything; Telepathy

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Joe Morris: Age of Everything

Read "Age of Everything" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Sometimes an artist comes along that, while making obviously forward-thinking and unique music, nevertheless remains apart from one's expectations that at first it seems unapproachable. Yet revisiting this same artist a few years later, with more listening under one's belt, the value of the work becomes more readily apparent. With this in mind, Joe Morris, before ...

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Article: Website News

Illumination

Read "Illumination" reviewed by AAJ Staff


It comes as a quiet blink in the dark, a sudden wash of color, or sheer blinding intensity. The best thing is, it happens without any warning. That's the sublime power of music created in the moment, always teetering on the edge of unpredictability. Once you've make that leap enough times, you'll find yourself addicted.


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