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Brad Shepik Quartet: Across The Way

Read "Across The Way" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Guitarist Brad Shepik mines a lode of styles on his compositions. Shadow and light play through his music, and he is not averse to opening the door to let a swath of sunshine in. The mood is never static, the wheel of invention is constantly churning out ideas that surprise and delight. Shepik wrote ...

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Brad Shepik Quartet: Across the Way

Read "Across the Way" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall

The opening strains to Brad Shepik's Across the Way--repeated six-string figures of wistful longing, tending toward melancholy, with strains redolent of Radiohead's OK Computer (Capitol, 1997)--signal that the guitarist is exploring darker, more insular spaces than on his previous effort, Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009). To be sure, that work, which takes on global climate change ...

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Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

Read "Perpetual Motion" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Perpetual Motion is tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin's first dedicated foray into the electrified realms of funk, R&B and soul. A renowned soloist whose memberships in Dave Douglas' Quintet, Mingus Dynasty and the Maria Schneider Orchestra have won him great acclaim (including a Grammy nomination for his work with Schneider's Orchestra), McCaslin has delved into groove-based territory ...

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Search and Restore Benefit: A Round Robin of Duo Improvisations

Read "Search and Restore Benefit: A Round Robin of Duo Improvisations" reviewed by Daniel Lehner

by Daniel Lehner

There's an old conundrum about a man with an axe. He broke the head chopping at a particularly stubborn branch and replaced it. Months later, he broke the handle and replaced that. The question goes: Does he have the same axe? It's a philosophical question that deals with how parts interrelate with a whole. Now imagine ...

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010

Read "Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 2-11, 2010With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of ...

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Phronesis: Alive

Read "Alive" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Copenhagen-born, London-based bassist Jasper Høiby has made a lot of noise--in both senses, all of it good--since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music and forming Phronesis in 2005. Høiby is a mainstay of several bands associated with the Loop and F-IRE musicians' collectives, and Alive is his third album with his own Phronesis, following Organic ...

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Jason Lindner: Now Vs. Now

Read "Now Vs. Now" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton

In the debut of the project Now vs. Now, keyboardist and composer Jason Lindner seizes onto a multi-lingual, multi-faceted approach to convey a global message of peace through non-violence. The group includes Panagiotis Andreou on electric bass and drummer Mark Guiliana, providing a core for the multi-ethnic group of artists Lindner has chosen to augment his ...

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Drummer Mark Guiliana Interviewed at AAJ

Drummer Mark Guiliana Interviewed at AAJ

Perhaps most recognized for his extended stint holding down the drum chair for bassist/composer Avishai Cohen, Mark Guiliana has been pushing the envelope of jazz drumming since first jumping onto the scene. Anyone who has heard--and particularly seen--Mark Guiliana play instantly recognizes not only his incredible technical facility, but also his unique take on percussion, based ...

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Mark Guiliana: New Beats

Read "Mark Guiliana: New Beats" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner

Perhaps most recognized for his extended stint holding down the drum chair for bassist/composer Avishai Cohen, Mark Guiliana has been pushing the envelope of jazz drumming since first jumping onto the scene. Anyone who has heard--and particularly seen--Mark Guiliana play instantly recognizes not only his incredible technical facility, but also his unique take on percussion, based ...

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Locked in a Basement

By Mark Guiliana

Label: Razdaz Recordz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Johnny2Rocketime; Locked in a Basement; Brown Bird, Olive Sloth, Green Dragon; Nice.; Aaaahh..; Make Me Dance, Make Me Dance; Sea Urchin. See Urchin Run.; Quick Groove Rolling; Love Comma Mark; Pi ~ 3.1415; Brawling on Epic Landforms.


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