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Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes

Read "Stars Have Shapes" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
November 10, 2010

This release by the Exploding Star Orchestra is one of those rare examples of a present day unit able to travel to other places. Under the direction of cornet player and composer Rob Mazurek they've come up with a program of music which incorporates advances outside of the jazz tradition even while it strikes an extraordinary ...

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Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms

Read "Sun Rooms" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 28, 2010

Jason Adasiewicz is making the vibraphone a necessary ingredient for music making in this century. His mallets have been featured in recordings by Josh Berman, Jason Ajemian, Harris Eisenstadt, the Lucky 7s, and Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra.As a leader, his two recordings with Rolldown, the self-titled 2008 disc on 482 Music and Varmint ...

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Greg Ward's Fitted Shards: South Side Story

Read "South Side Story" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
September 21, 2010

Like many musicians, Chicago saxophonist/composer Greg Ward (now based in New York) is juggling multiple gigs: working with names from Al Jarreau to Von Freeman; recording diverse projects with Mike Reed's People, Places, and Things or electronica artist Guillermo Scott Herren aka Prefuse 73; and even conducting an orchestra for hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco. In ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Day 6, June 28, 2010

by John Sharpe
August 22, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Marilyn Crispell, Joelle Leandre, Roy Campbell, Mat Maneri, Wadada Leo Smith, Gunter “Baby" Sommer, Joe Morris, Mike ReedVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 28, 2010With only ...

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Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Stories And Negotiations

Read "Stories And Negotiations" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
June 11, 2010

This third album by Mike Reed's People, Places & Things (PP&T) takes its position as the most direct manifestation of the combo's agreed purpose. The Chicago drummer has begun a journey of rediscovery, or even introduction, to the old jazz sounds of that city's late '50s period. Reed's concept is not to reproduce, but to respond ...

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Keefe Jackson Quartet: Seeing You See

Read "Seeing You See" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 5, 2010

The vibrant Chicago jazz scene has been home to many impressive young artists, most of whom collaborate in a rotating roster of collective ensembles. This communal approach has yielded a deep pool of talented individuals intimately familiar with each other's working methods, providing them with a sort of regional shorthand. Multi-reedist Keefe Jackson is one such ...

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News: Interview

Drummer Mike Reed Interviewed at AAJ

May 4, 2010

There is not a name yet for what Mike Reed does on drums. Elvin Jones created polyrhythmics; Rashied Ali, multi-directionalism. Reed is delivering something related but distinct. It has as much to do with tonal complexity as with keeping the beat, but the complexity goes beyond that, into a recombination of the many drumming styles of ...

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Article: Interview

Mike Reed: The Drum Thing

by Gordon Marshall
May 4, 2010

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News: Recording

Mike Reed's People, Places and Things - Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)

April 14, 2010

The last tine in drummer Mike Reed's three-pronged exploration of Chicago jazz history, this disc is appropriately climactic in its inspired variation on the project's guiding theme. Reed conscripted three living legends with deep ties to the Windy City scene - trumpeter Art Hoyle, trombonist Julian Priester and multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, heard solely on tenor - ...

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Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Stories and Negotiations

Read "Stories and Negotiations" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
April 13, 2010

Stories and Negotiations is the final chapter in Chicago-based drummer Mike Reed's People, Places & Things trilogy. Debuting with 2008's Proliferation (482 Music), Reed founded this piano-less quartet to investigate an often overlooked period of Chicago's jazz history--the mid-1950s to early 1960s--when the city's after-hours jam session culture flirted with avant-garde collectivism, eventually giving birth to ...