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Keith Tippett Octet: From Granite To Wind

Read "From Granite To Wind" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Rarely does an album receive the plaudit of being considered essential, but for Keith Tippett fans and non-fans alike, From Granite To Wind is such a recording. The pianist departed from the more rock-influenced aspects of his writing, on albums like Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (Vertigo, 1971) and the Centipede big band extravaganza ...

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Keith & Julie Tippett Couple in Spirit: Live at the Purcell Room

Read "Live at the Purcell Room" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Julie e Keith Tippett sono una vera “Couple in Spirit" come ci ricorda la copertina di questo bel CD della Ogun. Stanno assieme nella vita e nell'arte dalla fine degli anni sessanta, quando lei, vera icona del primo rock inglese col nome da signorina Julie Driscoll, se lo trovò in studio di registrazione come arrangiatore. Dopo ...

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Howard Riley: The Complete Short Stories 1998-2010

Read "Howard Riley: The Complete Short Stories 1998-2010" reviewed by John Sharpe


Howard RileyThe Complete Short Stories 1998-2010No Business Records2011 Veteran British pianist Howard Riley has found a champion from an unexpected source in the adventurous Lithuanian label, No Business. After issuing a double CD of the pianist's one man concert in the capital, Live In Vilnius (2010), it ...

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Liudas Mockunas / Ryoji Hojito: Vacation Music

Read "Vacation Music" reviewed by John Sharpe


Not as, might be suggested by the title, songs to put you in the holiday mood, but seven improvisations recorded by Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas and Japanese pianist Ryoji Hojito, while the latter was on vacation in Lithuania. The pair met during the course of Hojito's travels around the country and, without thinking too much, went ...

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"A loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor"

Label: Ogun Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01.-04. "A loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor" - Part 1 - 28:20; Part 2 - 20:53; part 3 - 14:41; Part 4 - 1:14; 05. Dedicated to Mingus - 11:52.

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Dreamtime: Double Trouble

Read "Double Trouble" reviewed by Nic Jones


Reel Recordings has excelled in the business of audio restoration, as this 2CD/DVD set goes to show. On one level, Dreamtime is no more than a footnote in British jazz, but not only did the band feature some potent soloists, it was one of the few to bridge the divide between composed and free music with ...

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Article: Live Review

Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour

Read "Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour" reviewed by John Sharpe


Aki Takase, John Edwards, Tony Levin / Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony LevinThe VortexLondonOctober 11, 2010 When pianist Keith Tippett's young daughter was asked at school what her parents did, she replied: they're mujicians! That conflation of magic and music neatly sums up Tippett's method. Initially the name was ...

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King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)

Read "In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)" reviewed by John Kelman


Considered a poor cousin to In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969), 1970's In the Wake of Poseidon may possess superficial similarities to its groundbreaking predecessor, but as a 2005 All About Jazz review of an earlier edition suggested, ..."Poseidon also hints of changes in the wind." Part of the second round of ...

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Islands (40th Anniversary Series)

Read "Islands (40th Anniversary Series)" reviewed by John Kelman


With iconic progressive rock progenitor King Crimson's first batch of 40th Anniversary Series reissues, sole remaining co-founder, guitarist Robert Fripp--and, perhaps more importantly, Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson--embarked on a program that will, over the next couple years, bring Crimson's catalog into the 21st century, with double-disc reissues featuring (for the most part) brand new mixes in ...

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Elton Dean's Ninesense: Happy Daze + Oh! For The Edge

Read "Happy Daze + Oh! For The Edge" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


This reissue of two Ninesense recordings, from the late British saxophonist Elton Dean, creates a gateway back to the London jazz scene of the 1970s. Digging into bands that he played with previously outside of his work with Soft Machine, he formed the nine-piece Ninesense with Keith Tippett, along with several other members of that pianist's ...


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