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Barry Altschul: The 3dom
by Mark Corroto
Seems of late, Mr Simon, Mr Garfunkel and the nation have been singing “Coo, coo, ca- choo, Mrs. Robinson" not for Joe DiMaggio or the deceased Ann Bancroft, but for drummer Barry Altschul. Somehow, in the 1980s and '90s we misplaced him. Actually, he moved to Europe, recording for smaller labels before he quietly returned to ...
Barry Altschul, William Hooker, Bobby Previte & Andrew Cyrille
by Martin Longley
Barry Altschul Roulette January 8, 2013 Another 70th birthday to celebrate, another musician who commands the appearance and vitality of a much younger player. New York drummer Barry Altschul actually hit 70 two days before this celebratory gig at Roulette. The long-established experimental music venue is now settling in ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock
by Eyal Hareuveni
Mostly Other Peopele Do the Killing is back! And with it the rightly slandered genre of smooth jazz. This quintet's fifth studio album was penned by MOPDtK bassist Moppa Elliot after a lengthy immersion in the smooth jazz recordings of the late 1970s and '80s. Elliott extracted certain idiomatic phrases, harmonies and embellishments from this superficial ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock
by John Sharpe
Like the previous four studio albums by self-styled bebop terrorist band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Slippery Rock begins with a drum solo over a vamp before kicking into the first tune. That's not the only thing that remains constant. Leader/bassist Moppa Elliott's songwriting talents haven't deserted him either; his charts, named after small Pennsylvania ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Setting the Record Straight
by Troy Collins
Mostly Other People Do the Killing is frequently typecast as one of today's most humorously irreverent young jazz groups, based in no small part on their provocative name, which was inspired by a quote attributed to inventor Leon Theremin--a survivor of the Soviet gulag who exonerated Stalin because “mostly other people did the killing." Bassist and ...
Bending Bridges
By Jon Irabagon
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Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Sinks When She Rounds the Bend (No.22); 02. Hemorrhaging Smiles
(No.25); 03. Forgotten Men in Silver (No.24); 04. Love in Eight Colors
(No.21); 05. The Periphery of Scandal(No.23); 06. That Old Sound
(No.27); 07. Sea Cut Like Snow (No.26); 08. Deformed Weight of Hands
(No.28); 09. All the Clocks (No.29).
Tutte le composizioni sono di Mary Halvorson.
Unhinged
By Jon Irabagon
Label:
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Camp Douglas; 02. Charles Barkley; 03. Lola Pastillas; 04. Camp
Douglas 2; 05. Silent Smile (Urban Love Song); 06. Kremzeek!; 07.
Mourning in America; 08. Camp Douglas 3; 09. Take Five; 10. Parker
Posey.
I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 2012
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2012
by Thomas Conrad
Belgrade Jazz FestivalBelgrade, SerbiaOctober 25-28, 2012There are hundreds of jazz festivals around the globe every year, in places like Baku, Azerbaijan, and Sibiu, Romania, and Valletta, Malta. But there may be no more improbable setting for a jazz festival than Belgrade, Serbia.Not that long ago, in the late 1990s, during ...
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