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Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2015

by John Sharpe
December 24, 2015

Here in no special order are ten new releases, reviewed in All About Jazz, which stood out among those I heard this year. Mats Gustafsson Hidros 6 Knockin' (Not Two Records) An avant-garde jazz composition based on the songs of '50s rocker Little Richard. Really? Yep, that's the premise ...

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John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Live at La Resistenza

Read "Live at La Resistenza" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2015

The subtitle to Charles Mingus' composition “Gunslinging Bird" is “If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats," refers to the great alto saxophonist's ability to dominate a bandstand and quiet any and all comers. Parker, who died in 1955, might not have known about automatic weapons, nor the free jazz ...

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Universal Indians with Joe McPhee: Skullduggery

Read "Skullduggery" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
August 5, 2015

Un po' di collegamenti e incroci. Il trio Universal Indians trae il proprio nome dal pezzo di Albert Ayler che chiudeva il disco Love Cry. Ispirarsi a Ayler -o comunque a quel momento storico e espressivo in cui il sassofonista si trovò a agire, insieme a John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman e soci... ...

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Universal Indians with Joe McPhee: Skullduggery

Read "Skullduggery" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 29, 2015

Throughout his career multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee has always appeared remarkably open to collaborations with musicians from different scenes. Sometimes these blossom into more established groupings such as his regular hook ups with the Scandinavian power trio The Thing and more recently with the English improv outfit Decoy (witness Oto (Bo'Weavil, 2010) and Spontaneous Combustion (OtoRoku, 2014)). ...

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Blue Lines Trio: Blue Lines Trio

Read "Blue Lines Trio" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
February 27, 2015

Registrato dal vivo il 5 marzo 2014 al celeberrimo Bimhuis di Amsterdam, vale a dire in uno dei templi dell'avantgarde jazz europeo, l'omonimo CD del Blue Lines Trio contiene una selezione di cinquanta minuti e rotti della ricchezza compositiva e di repertorio di tre importanti esploratori del suono moderno che si chiamano George Hadow, Michiel Scheen ...

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Across the Sky

By John Dikeman

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. A Screaming Comes; 02. Across The Sky; 03. It Has Happened Before...

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Cactus Truck with Jeb Bishop and Roy Campbell: Live in USA

Read "Live in USA" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 28, 2013

In the end of 2012 the Dutch power jazz trio Cactus Trio did a 37 gigs tour in the USA. The trio played in record stores, independent labels offices and small clubs, encountered cancellations due to hurricane Sandy, found last minute alternative spaces and hosted like- minded forward thinking improvisers. The limited edition recording chronicles this ...

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Dikeman/Kugel/van der Weide: Across the Sky

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2013

Nato in Nebraska, cresciuto nello Wyoming il sassofonista John Dikeman ha frequentato brevemente la scena newyorkese prima di trasferirsi per tre anni al Cairo e stabilirsi dal 2007 ad Amsterdam. Nella Venezia del Nord Dikeman si è inserito con naturalezza e disinvoltura all'interno della variegata scena improvvisativa, divenendone in breve tempo una delle figure più attive ...

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Cactus Truck: Brand New For China!

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 26, 2013

John Dikeman is one of the most interesting saxophonists now operating in the Amsterdam scene. He is a charismatic player, well-versed in the legacy of modern and free jazz as his recent releases-- Across the sky, with bassist Raoul Van Der Weide and drummer Klaus Kugel (Not Two, 2012); and Nihil is Now (Stone Floor, 2012), ...

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