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Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables

Read "The Inner Spectrum of Variables" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Tyshawn Sorey has realized a career's worth of accomplishments, accolades and appointments despite a professional resume that--with the exception of Vijay Iyer's Blood Sutra (Artist House, 2003)--is not quite ten years in the making. On the verge of his doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University, he has composed almost two-hundred works, and received the 2015 ...

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On Kaa Davis: X-Ray Search Light Project: Djuke Music

Read "X-Ray Search Light Project: Djuke Music" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Though he's logged considerable time in Sun Ra's Arkestra, Kenny Wolleson's Himalayas Collective, and groups led by Donald Ayler, Charles 'Bobo' Shaw, and Luther Thomas, On Kaa Davis is not just another avant-garde jazz dude. As a teenager, the Cleveland, Ohio native journeyed to Vienna, Austria, where he studied classical guitar at the Hochschule for Music ...

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Die Hochstapler: Plays The Music Of Alvin P. Buckley

Read "Plays The Music Of Alvin P. Buckley" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Back in high school, my physics instructor explained to us how there is a mathematical equation for everything in the universe. We started with the parabola equation of a baseball's flight after being struck by a bat. We were amazed to learn that one (not I) could also calculate the various waves on a lake. A ...

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Article: Live Review

Lana Meets Jazz - 5a Edizione

Read "Lana Meets Jazz - 5a Edizione" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Lana Meets Jazz -5a Edizione Lana 09.04-08.05.2016 Giunto alla sua quinta edizione, quest'anno il Lana Meets Jazz ha programmato concerti per un'intera settimana. Una dimensione importante, che accanto alle più che legittime soddisfazioni per la crescita ed il successo del festival, impone agli organizzatori Helga Plankensteiner e Miki Lösch una riflessione ...

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Bray Jazz 2016

Read "Bray Jazz 2016" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Bray Jazz Various venues Bray, Ireland April 29 -May 1, 2016 With first-rate music festivals mushrooming all over Ireland, Bray Jazz remains a highlight in a crowded calendar. Now in its seventeenth year, Bray Jazz' tried and tested format strikes a pleasing balance musically, with jazz, folk and world musics in ...

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Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9: Viper's Drag

Read "Viper's Drag" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Cosa unisce la dissacrante verve di Steven Bernstein -estroverso leader dei Sex Mob e animatore di vari progetti con la Tzadik di John Zorn-col virtuosistico pianismo di Henry Butler, fortemente intriso di blues? Questa rilettura sul primo jazz di New Orleans è una delle risposte. La passione per la tradizione ha accomunato i due ...

Article: Album Review

Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt: Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt

Read "Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt" reviewed by Vic Albani


Non ce ne eravamo dimenticati. Chiediamo scusa per il ritardo poiché di questo disco si sarebbe dovuto parlare già diverso tempo fa ma... i pompieri, le cavallette e via di conserva. Come è ormai ben noto, John Zorn licenzia spesso per la sua attivissima Tzadik molti dischi di notevole spessore qualitativo ed interesse. ...

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Article: Jazz Primer

Thinking Outside The Musical Box

Read "Thinking Outside The Musical Box" reviewed by Donal Fox


What is jazz? It is a state of mind, a spiritual quest for true unfettered artistic expression. A human expression of individual freedom, social freedom and love. Jazz is also about diversity. Diversity is important, isn't it? We expect it in our social lives. We demand respect and honoring in our society as artists and as ...

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Article: Album Review

New Zion w/ Cyro Baptista: Sunshine Seas

Read "Sunshine Seas" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The third release by Jamie Saft's New Zion Trio expands the concepts he launched with his previous efforts, Fight Against Babylon (Veal Records, 2011), and Chaliwa (Veal Records, 2013). His reggae/dub-meets-piano trio explorations expand with the inclusion of Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista. This rhythm trance music casts a much larger net, one of universal spirituality, beyond physical matter ...

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Craig Taborn: Flaga: Book of Angels, Volume 27

Read "Flaga: Book of Angels, Volume 27" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


There was always a sense that pianist Craig Taborn was more successful as a “super sideman" than as a leader of his own recordings. His contributions to CD offerings by saxophonist Tim Berne, reedman Roscoe Mitchell, saxophonists David Binney and James Carter, and many more, have been critical in crafting dozens of excellent music sets. Then ...


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