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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

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

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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

By Keith Tippett

Label: Ogun Recordings
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

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

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)

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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)

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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

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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 ...

Article: Album Review

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

Read ""A loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor"" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La Ogun ripubblica su CD un album importante del proprio catalogo, inizialmente pubblicato su doppio LP e indisponibile da tempo. Si tratta dell'unico documento registrato dal settetto guidato da Keith Tippett nei primi anni '80, qui ripreso dal vivo in concerto nel 1984. In formazione troviamo alcuni dei nomi storici del jazz inglese, quasi sempre a ...

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Article: Interview

Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music

Read "Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music" reviewed by Maxim Micheliov

by Maxim Micheliov

Howard Riley gave his performance in Vilnius, Lithuania in September, 2009. It was his first visit to the country in a five-decade career, and one of just a few eastern Europe destinations made at the time, by the British free jazz pianist. The concert was recorded and released in 2010 as the double-disc set, Solo in ...


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