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John Surman: Brewster's Rooster

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by John Kelman
July 29, 2009

After a string of more jazz-centric ECM releases--1992's relatively free Adventure Playground, the large ensemble of 1993's The Brass Project, and the only document of his ongoing quartet with pianist John Taylor, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall, 1994's Stranger Than Fiction--saxophonist John Surman's subsequent output for the label has consisted of unorthodox but no ...

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Soft Machine: Drop

by Gary Gomes
April 24, 2009

Despite significant ambivalence about Soft Machine around the time of this recording, it was the furthest out that the group ever ventured, and its closest approach to free jazz. It also possessed the freest drummer to ever grace a rock group. Australian Phil Howard was, in fact, free by most jazz standards, but by jettisoning the ...

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John Marshal: Live at "Le Pirate" & Marshall Arts

by Laurel Gross
January 10, 2009

John Marshall Live At “Le Pirate" Organic Music 2008 John Marshall/Ferdinand Povel Quintet Marshall Arts Blue Jack Jazz 2008 Trumpeter John Marshall should be more famously known in the ...

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Charlie Mariano: Helen 12 Trees

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by John Kelman
March 18, 2008

Of labels awaiting first-time release on CD, Germany's MPS is the undisputed holy grail. With plans to release fifteen of its 400+ titles in carefully remastered and beautifully designed mini-LP sleeve packages each year, Promising Music is righting a wrong in the best possible way. Always eclectic, MPS ran the gamut from free jazz to fusion ...

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Soft Machine: Third through Seven Remasters

by John Kelman
February 28, 2007

While the merits of remastered reissues are the source of considerable debate, there's no denying that the discography of pioneering British jazz/rock band Soft Machine has been more deserving of attention than most. In the group's fourteen-year existence it shifted gears more often than outfits lasting considerably longer. Beginning in the late 1960s as a psychedelic ...

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Floating World Live

By Soft Machine

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Floating World; Bundles; Land of the Bag Snake; Ealing Comedy; The Man Who Waved at Trains; Peff; North Point; Hazard Profile (Part One); J.S.M.; Riff III; Song of Aeolus; Endgame; Penny Hitch (Coda).

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The Triangle

By Arild Andersen

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Straight; Pavane; Saturday; Choral; Simple Thoughts; Prism; Lines; European Triangle; Cinderella Song

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The Stolen Hour

By Hugh Hopper

Label: Burning Shed
Released: 2004
Track listing: Craig's Distended Train Ride; Complications at Work; An Inescapable Encounter with Mrs. Pry; Yearning for the Stolen Hour; The Long Drive; An Unregulated Sunset; A Sideways Peek at Dreamtime; Snide Wisdom Involving the Immateriality of Time; The Stuff He Sees; Mia's Timely Emergence from the East; Compatibility; Sharing the Stolen Hour.

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