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Kevin Tkacz Trio: It's Not What You Think

Read "It's Not What You Think" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 26, 2009

Bassist Kevin Tkacz is joined by Bill Carrothers on piano and Michael Sarin on drums for his first trio release, It's Not What You Think, a mix of composed and improvised tunes recorded in Brooklyn, New York, during March 2007. On his website, Tkacz describes the CD as “seven improvisations, two notated compositions, ...

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Denman Maroney Quintet: Udentity

Read "Udentity" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 29, 2009

In this fascinating 2009 release, leader Denman Maroney morphs the avant-garde implications of hyperpiano fare into a semi-structured progressive jazz endeavor with tunes that are largely melodic and uncannily attainable. The artist derives influence from avant-garde composers John Cage and Henry Cowell, who used nuts, bolts and other implements to perform on the piano via unconventional ...

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Inside the Piano: Germinal; Gold; The Ill-Tempered Piano; Udentity

by Marc Medwin
May 9, 2009

Agusti Fernandez & Ingar ZachGerminalPlastic Strip2008 Magda Mayas & Tony BuckGoldCreative Sources2009 Nicola CipaniThe Ill-Tempered PianoLong Song2009 Denman MaroneyUdentityClean Feed

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Denman Maroney: Udentity

Read "Udentity" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 14, 2009

Denman Maroney, the sole practitioner of “hyperpiano," has a singular technique that is a natural extension of the pioneering efforts of such visionary composers as John Cage, Henry Cowell and George Crumb. Expanding on the well-established practice of augmenting the interior strings of the piano with found objects, Maroney bows, plucks and scrapes the strings with ...

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For the Moment

By Margaret Slovak

Label: Slovak Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Charissa; Flowers for Marie; November or April; Twice; Face of a Face; Seventro/For the Moment; O Solo Mole; O'Keeffeness.

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Buzz

By Ben Allison

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Respiration; Buzz; Green Al; Mauritania; Erato; R&B Fantasy; Across the Universe.

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Mythos

By Mario Pavone

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Diode; Dialect; Odeon; Sky Piece; Mythos; Crutch for the Crab; Dancers Tales; Interlude; Isobars; Fablet; And Then We Wrote.

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Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...

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Motion Poetry

By Mario Pavone

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Foody; 3M Blues; Poet o Central Park; Emmett Spencer; New Socks; Lament in Passing; Song for M; Archives.

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Dave Douglas: Convergence

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1999

Even if you consider yourself only marginally knowledgeable about modern jazz, there remains virtually no valid excuse for not having heard of trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Over the past 5 years Douglas' recordings have appeared on numerous yearly “best of “ lists including those of the New York Times, the Village Voice and All About Jazz. His ...