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Anthony Braxton: Eight (+1) Tristano Compositions 1989 For Warne Marsh

Read "Eight (+1) Tristano Compositions 1989 For Warne Marsh" reviewed by Troy Collins


Long valued as an elusive, out of print collector's item, the recently reissued Eight (+1) Tristano Compositions 1989 For Warne Marsh offers listeners another opportunity to reevaluate composer Anthony Braxton's vibrant reinterpretation of the groundbreaking pianist's work. Dedicated to the tenor saxophonist most commonly associated with pianist Lennie Tristano's oeuvre, this 1989 session originally included versions ...

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Jon Raskin and Clara Harryman: Open Box

Read "Open Box" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Among the varied collaborations between poets and musicians, or the adaptation of poetry to music, the setting of Carla Harryman's genre-busting poetry to improvised music by ROVA Saxophone Quartet's Jon Raskin is outstanding. Not only because of Harryman's avant-garde poetic language--often focusing on the language itself, its contradictions and shortcomings--subverting its attempts to capture the fleeting ...

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Open Box

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2012
Track listing: Fish Speech; Open Box Part 1; Open Box Part 2; LA Reactive Meme; Song for Asa; A Sun and Five Decompositions; JS Active Meme.

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Various Artists: Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance

Read "Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Earth Music commemorates a decade of musical art presentations by the forward-thinking Bay Area Gallery founded on and operating under the firm conviction that significant art increases social, philosophical and spiritual change. It seems popular now to support the new music, which by those two words seems to imply--and this is becoming odious too--the entire artistic ...

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Larry Ochs: The Celestial Septet & We All Feel The Same Way

Read "Larry Ochs: The Celestial Septet & We All Feel The Same Way" reviewed by Marc Medwin


ROVA Sax Quartet/Nels Cline SingersThe Celestial SeptetNew World Records2010 Jones JonesWe All Feel The Same WaySoLyd2010 The synchronicity and boundless energy that separate great groupwork from everything else pervades these ...

Article: My Playlist

Jon Raskin

Read "Jon Raskin" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


01. Ramoo Prasad Shastri - Anu Gooni: Violin Music to Make Your Heart Vibrate (Soulfelt Music - 2008). Splendida musica Hindustani per violino. 02. Marc Blitzstein - First Life: Rare Early Works (Other Minds - 2009). Musica da camera inedita e raramente suonata.. 03. Phillip Johnston - Page of Madness (Asynchronous - 2009). Musica scritta appositamente ...

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Jon Raskin: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Racconta Jon Raskin nelle note che accompagnano il debutto del suo nuovo quartetto di aver pensato a questo disco in termini grafici prima che musicali, attraverso un sistema di notazioni concepito nel corso di lunghe passeggiate nei pressi di Oakland, California. D'altro canto nella storia recente della musica creativa tout court, da Scelsi a Braxton, le ...

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Quartet

Label: Shanachie
Released: 2007

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Jon Raskin Quartet: The Bass & The Bird Pond

Read "The Bass & The Bird Pond" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


A member of the acclaimed West Coast based woodwind quartet, “ROVA”, saxophonist Jon Raskin aligns himself with East Coast modern jazz champion, saxophonist/bandleader Tim Berne on The Bass & The Bird Pond. Here the “Jon Raskin Quartet” featuring the monstrous rhythm section of bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Elliot Kavee inscribe a few more pages into ...


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