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Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs

Read "The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs" reviewed by John Kelman


Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings--on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn--guitarist Bill Frisell has always been a melodist at heart. Even at his most outré--his oblique yet stunningly constructed solo on “Next Love," from clarinetist Don Byron's minor classic, Tuskegee Experiment ...

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Article: Interview

Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free

Read "Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Saxophonist John Zorn Headed West

Saxophonist John Zorn Headed West

As heard from one of the kindly clerks at Amoeba Records this weekend -- and confirmed on John Zorn's MySpace page (remember those?) on top of various blogs and message boards -- the ever-unpredictable saxophonist and downtown NYC fixture will venture out of the 212 and into the Pacific Time Zone for a run of shows ...

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Article: Album Review

John Zorn: The Rain Horse

Read "The Rain Horse" reviewed by Martin Longley


This is number XIX in Zorn's Filmworks series, his self-confessed outlet for accessible composition, at least throughout most of its editions. The saxophonist doesn't actually play on this soundtrack disc, concentrating on writing, arranging and conducting. The result is a sequence of what must surely be Zorn's most restful, reflective, melodic and lyrical music, performed by ...

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Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2008
Track listing: Shalom, Sholem!; Luminous Visions; Mamme Loshen; Beyond The Pale; Mekubolim; Portable Homeland; Wandering Star; Jewish Revolutionaries; Shtetls; Lucky Me, I'm An Orphan!; Nicht Gefahrlich; Talking Through Oblivion.

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John Zorn's The Dreamers

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2008

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Lucifer: Book Of Angels Volume 10

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2008
Track listing: Sother; Dalquiel; Zazel; Gediel; Rahal; Zechriel; Azbugah; Mehalalel; Quelamia; Abdiel.

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The Rain Horse

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2008
Track listing: Tears Of Morning; The Stallion; Tree Of Life; Wedding Of Wild Horse; Forests In The Mist; Dance Exotique; Bird In The Mist; Parable Of Job; Encounter; The Rain Horse; End Credits.

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Filmworks XXI: Belle De Nature And The New Rijksmuseum

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2008

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Xaphan: Book Of Angels Volume 9

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2008


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