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Article: Album Review

Sainkho Namchylak / Dickson Dee: Tea Opera

Read "Tea Opera" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Dickson Dee (Li Chin Sung) is an enterprising artist and businessman, responsible for opening up many doors via Independent label distribution and various production efforts for artists in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He's embedded his wares into a global setting, while also recording for John Zorn's Tzadik label on his 1996 solo debut, PAST. An ...

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Article: Interview

Ornette Coleman: Music is a Verb

Read "Ornette Coleman: Music is a Verb" reviewed by Warren Allen


"Some people think of music as being on some higher level," Ornette Coleman says by phone from his apartment in New York City. “But basically it's the human being that receives the pleasure from sound. Not from the argument over what it is." There are a lot of questions about Ornette Coleman and ...

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Article: Album Review

John Zorn: The Crucible

Read "The Crucible" reviewed by Mark Corroto


John Zorn is not one to rest on his laurels. It is probably not possible for Zorn to rest, period. With The Crucible, the fourth installment of his Moonchild band, the saxophonist/composer delivers a recording that will be attractive to both hardcore metal and jazz fans. Twenty years ago Zorn unleashed his band Naked ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2009: Day 4, Kristiansand, Norway, September 5, 2009

Read "Punkt Festival 2009: Day 4, Kristiansand, Norway, September 5, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 For its fifth year, Punkt Festival's evening programming was, more than any other, organized around clearer thematic lines, although that still meant a considerably broader purview than most other festivals--and, of course, there was the occasional exception. The first day spotlighted up-and-coming talent; ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: John Zorn

Jazz Musician of the Day: John Zorn

All About Jazz is celebrating John Zorn's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY John ZornJohn Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in NYC, USA) is a Jewish American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. As a child, Zorn played piano, guitar and flute. He studied at Webster College (now Webster University) in ...

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Article: Album Review

Ben Perowsky Quartet: Esopus Opus

Read "Esopus Opus" reviewed by Troy Collins


A ubiquitous presence in the Downtown New York scene, drummer Ben Perowsky founded and co-led the proto-fusion band Lost Tribe, served in Elysian Fields, Joan as Policewoman, and the Lounge Lizards, while continuing to perform sideman duties for Steven Bernstein, Uri Caine, Dave Douglas, and John Zorn, among others. An artist with eclectic interests, ...

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Article: Album Review

Tafillalt: Tafillalt

Read "Tafillalt" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


This innovative alt-klezmer/alt-Jewish music ensemble represents the growing interest of John Zorn's Tzadik label in the Israeli Jewish music scene. Tafillalt fits into the Radical Jewish Culture series of the label, not only by exploring and interpreting ancient and modern Hebrew prayers--songs in adventurous and compelling new soundscapes--but also because of the group's multicultural improvisational attitude ...

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News: Recording

Notes from the Net: A Tribute to Miles Davis and Gil Evans; New CDs from Terence Blanchard and John Patitucci; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Notes from the Net: A Tribute to Miles Davis and Gil Evans; New CDs from Terence Blanchard and John Patitucci; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* A group including former Miles Davis drummer Jimmy Cobb, Gil Evans' son Miles Evans, ...

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Article: Album Review

Burton Greene / Perry Robinson: Two Voices In The Desert

Read "Two Voices In The Desert" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Pianist Burton Greene and clarinetist Perry Robinson have been close friends for a very long time. During those years, they have bonded with a common musical purpose that stems from free expression to the gentle molding of a life perspective. Working together in Greene's groups--Klezmokem and Klez-Edge--the pair has become identifiable with an open and unfettered ...

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John Zorn: O'o

Read "O'o" reviewed by Troy Collins


Named after an extinct Hawaiian bird, O'o is the charming follow up to the self-titled debut of composer John Zorn's most accessible project, The Dreamers. Culled from Zorn's inner circle of longstanding collaborators, this all-star sextet of Downtown veterans explores his most tuneful compositions, threading aspects of easy listening, exotica, film soundtracks, surf, and world music ...


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