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Article: Film Review

The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex

Read "The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The EX The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex Ex Records 2009 Dutch group The Ex might be one of the greatest jazz bands ever. Not, most certainly, because it has mastered a traditional, neo-con agenda, but because it rebels constantly against all such paradigms and conventions, ...

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Article: Interview

Eddie Prevost: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Read "Eddie Prevost: Looking Back, Looking Forward" reviewed by John Eyles


Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prévost was a founding member of the pioneering free-improvising group AMM, back in 1965, and has remained a member ever since. In the intervening years, AMM saw frequent personnel changes, from the early lineup of Prévost--saxophonist Lou Gare, guitarist Keith Rowe, pianist Cornelius Cardew, and cellist Lawrence Sheaff--through to the current duo ...

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Article: Album Review

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The experience of listening to the highly gifted quartet Mostly Other Do the Killing (MOPDtK) is like taking a ride on roller-coaster while drunk, but still trusting your life in the hands of a wild driver who often has some epileptic fits. It is fun, no doubt; a wild fun, like going to a circus. But ...

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Article: Interview

Julius Vasylenko: Seeing Stars

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Julius Vasylenko has earthy charisma. Because of his accent, people who come into his purlieu immediately assume an association with elite British improvisers. “Did he hang with Derek Bailey?" they wonder...I could say Vasylenko, a multi-reed and saxophonist now based in Boston, was John Butcher's and Evan Parker's kid brother. However, it ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Alone, Again (Naturally): Peter Brotzmann, Olaf Rupp, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Woody Sullender and Frank Rosaly

Read "Alone, Again (Naturally): Peter Brotzmann, Olaf Rupp, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Woody Sullender and Frank Rosaly" reviewed by Clifford Allen


For this writer, solo playing and solo concerts have a special place. A few years before I began writing about jazz, and while living in New York at the beginning of the 2000s, I ran into the late violinist Leroy Jenkins in the East Village. I didn't know him personally, but he was instantly recognizable, and ...

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Trinity

Label: Matchless Recordings And Publishing
Released: 2009
Track listing: Meantime; One Tree Hill; Flamsteed; Conduit.

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Resonant Spaces

Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sympathetic Magic (stone); Calls From A Rusty Cage; Wind Piece; Floating Cult; Close By, A Waterfall; New Scapas Flow; Styptic; Frost Piece; Sympathetic Magic (metal).

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Buffalo Pearl

Label: Auricle Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Light Queen; Head Nickel; McGeist; No Illusion; The Good Neighbor.

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Treader Duos

Label: Treader
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tooth Pivot; The Pews; We Dare To Sing.

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Way Out Northwest

Label: Drip Audio
Released: 2009
Track listing: haufig eine hydraulische Metaphertendenz; Magic Clock Machine; Sibila e Succhia; Sharpening the Windings until they roll up, roll up and snag on the point of the Tear; Taktgebertendenz; Gone, Goner.


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