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News: Recording

Lynda Arnold & Daniel Berkman Debut Instrumental Piano CD “Hammer Inventions”

Lynda Arnold & Daniel Berkman Debut Instrumental Piano CD “Hammer Inventions”

Composers Lynda Arnold and Daniel Berkman have released their debut CD, Hammer Inventions. The 18 original instrumental compositions consist of acoustic piano orchestrations with electronic layered sampling, the latter of which were created entirely from sounds and noises generated from a wide variety of acoustic pianos, including several Yamaha pianos, which the duo endorses. The skilled ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bang on a Can Celebrates 25 Years with Triple Bill Concert at Lincoln Center

Bang on a Can Celebrates 25 Years with Triple Bill Concert at Lincoln Center

Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra, and MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day ...

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Article: Album Review

Joelle Leandre / Phillip Greenlief: That Overt Desire Of Object

Read "That Overt Desire Of Object" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


Contrabassist Joëlle Léandre and West Coast woodwind player Phillip Greenlief work out 11 different compositions between their two respective instruments and voices on That Overt Desire of Object. The flexibility and space that each provides the other seems to be reflected in the line note comments about the negative effects of greed. The title is a ...

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Article: New York Beat

Jimmy Owens and the Monk Evolution

Read "Jimmy Owens and the Monk Evolution" reviewed by Nick Catalano


When an artist comes along who convolutes traditional form, it sometimes takes eons for that artist's contribution to be understood, evaluated and finally appreciated. Initially, composer Igor Stravinsky was thrown out of Paris at the premier of “Le Sacre du Printemps," author James Joyce was banned in Boston for Ulysses," and composer John Cage ridiculed for ...

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Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 2: January 7, 2012

Read "NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 2: January 7, 2012" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 2New York, NYJanuary 7, 2012 Gregoire Maret The harmonica, like the accordion and other free reed aerophones, doesn't come with as much built-in room for expression as other wind instruments, which is what makes Gregoire Maret's playing so unique. For ...

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Article: Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: Boundless

Read "Boundless" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


In his relatively brief tenure as a professional jazz musician who derives influences from classical music studies and John Cage-tinted abstractions, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's craft teems with curiously interesting applications and concepts. He's recorded for other prominent European record labels, but debuts on the historic Swiss-based hatOLOGY label with Boundless.Blaser imparts a penchant ...

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Article: Album Review

Dick Wood: Not Far From Here

Read "Not Far From Here" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


California reed man Dck Wood's heterogeneous union of influences from New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, John Cage and a consortium of other luminaries are rather subliminally packaged throughout this audacious studio date. Here, the artist gives the always-thriving West Coast progressive-jazz scene yet another jolt, as his semi-structured arrangements are fashioned with shadowy song-forms, peppered with dissonant ...

Album

Ryoanji

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Ryoanji.

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Article: Book Review

Amy C. Beal: Carla Bley

Read "Amy C. Beal: Carla Bley" reviewed by Chris May


Carla Bley Amy C. Beal Softcover, 114 pages University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252078187 2011 Remarkably, this is the first detailed, published study of the career and music of Carla Bley, the distinguished composer, keyboardist, band leader and activist. It is the seventh volume in the University of ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

George Russell: The Story of an American Composer

Read "George Russell: The Story of an American Composer" reviewed by Duncan Heining


This article, adapted by the author, appears in Chapter 4 of George Russell: The Story of an American Composer, by Duncan Heining (Scarecrow Press, 2010). New York, NY It was May 1945, the war was still on, Bebop was at its height in New York and George Russell and his two ...


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