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Quark Bercuse Solo Percussion Vol I

Label: The ACT Company
Released: 2005

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Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Knots; Number Nine, Number Nine; Cutting Across; Quark Bercuse; Tradition-Revision- Decision; Cold Day in May-Newspaper Article about the Dead in Iraq; User

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Kevin Norton: Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1

Read "Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Solo music is perhaps the most challenging kind of all. With no place to hide, it's just the musician communicating to the listener. Percussion music presents additional challenges for both the performer and audience, since untuned instruments, like drums and cymbals, lack obvious melodic qualities and tuned instruments, like marimba and xylophone, are not inherently harmonic. ...

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Intuitive Structures

Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Walking the Dogma #2 2. Etude for Ricky W. 3. Aquarius 4. Walking the Dogma #1

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Time-Space Modulator

Label: Barking Hoop
Released: 2004
Track listing: Mother Tongue; Seoul Soul; Didkovsky; Milt's Forward Looking Tradition; Microbug; Atie Aife; Difficulty; Moonstruck.

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Kevin Norton: Time-Space Modulator & No Definitive

Read "Kevin Norton: Time-Space Modulator & No Definitive" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Vanity labels and the digital age have perhaps resulted in an effluvia of recordings that will likely be enjoyed by fans in the single digits at best, but on occasion the DIY ethos in jazz allows documentation of remarkable work by artists who might otherwise be forever relegated to sideman status. Kevin Norton ...

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Kevin Norton's Bauhaus Quartet: Time-Space Modulator

Read "Time-Space Modulator" reviewed by Mark Corroto


I must admit, I didn't consider Kevin Norton's latest entitled Time-Space Modulator to be a reference to L'szl' Moholy-Nagy's sculpture “Light-Space Modulator." Nope. I referenced the drummer's work with, and admiration for Anthony Braxton, and immediately connected this disc with Bugs Bunny's encounters with Marvin the Martian. I can even picture Braxton speaking with Marvin's voice ...

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Kevin Norton: Intuitive Structures

Read "Intuitive Structures" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Drummer-percussionist Kevin Norton is perhaps best known for his collaborations with multi-reedist and composer Anthony Braxton. But Norton is also an accomplished composer and bandleader. Intuitive Structures, his tenth record as a leader, captures Norton in an intimate live setting, with the emphasis on playing and group interaction. Living Language consists of saxophonist Louie Belogenis, cellist ...

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A Fireside Chat with Kevin Norton

Read "A Fireside Chat with Kevin Norton" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Kevin Norton is one of the most original percussionists my side of the Atlantic. Having documented the music of Anthony Braxton on his Barking Hoop label, Norton, after a handful of convincing releases on the CIMP and Clean Feed labels, continues to advance creatively with Oceans of Earth, a new trio release with like-minded Tomas Ulrich ...

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Play The Music Of Anthony Braxton

Label: Barking Hoop
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Composition No. 60 2.Composition No. 40P 3.Composition No. 23h (dedicated to Burckhardt Hennen) 4.Composition No. 6n (dedicated to Jerome Cooper) 5.Composition No. 62


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