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Milford Graves: Time Piece

Read "Milford Graves: Time Piece" reviewed by Marc Medwin


"Don't tell me how many years you've been doing something." Milford Graves's delivery is surprisingly restrained given the directness of his statement. “I want to know how completely you're filling that time, how you're spending each nanosecond." The statement defines the energy and vitality that this extraordinary musician brings to every aspect of his ...

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Article: Album Review

Soft Machine: Drop

Read "Drop" reviewed by Gary Gomes


Despite significant ambivalence about Soft Machine around the time of this recording, it was the furthest out that the group ever ventured, and its closest approach to free jazz. It also possessed the freest drummer to ever grace a rock group. Australian Phil Howard was, in fact, free by most jazz standards, but by jettisoning the ...

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Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble

Read "Percussion Ensemble" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tra i tanti meriti storici della ESP c'è quello di aver portato alla ribalta il nome di Milford Graves. In poco più di un anno, dall'ottobre del 1964 al novembre del 1965, furono addirittura cinque le session patrocinate da Stollman alle quali prese parte il batterista, per un totale di sei pubblicazioni inserite in catalogo dall'etichetta ...

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Beyond Quantum

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2008
Track listing: First Meeting; Second Meeting; Third Meeting; Fourth Meeting; Fifth Meeting.

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Barrage

Label: ESP Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Batterie; Ictus; And Now the Queen; Around Again; Walking Woman; Barrage.

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Percussion Ensemble

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Nothing 5-7; Nothing 11-10; Nothing 19; Nothing 13; Nothing.

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Anthony Braxton / Milford Graves / William Parker: Beyond Quantum

Read "Beyond Quantum" reviewed by Troy Collins


An unprecedented free jazz summit meeting of the highest order, Beyond Quantum features composer/multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, percussionist Milford Graves and bassist William Parker in an impromptu blowing session recorded at Bill Laswell's studio. Anthony Braxton has been enjoying a well-deserved resurgence in popularity, courtesy of a growing discography that features collaborations with former students ...

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Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble

Read "Percussion Ensemble" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Fulfilling Bernard Stollman's prescient request to record for his label, Milford Graves decided to enlist Sunny Morgan as a drumming partner for Percussion Ensemble. Graves did so purposefully; the duo percussionists were making more than music. They were calling up their heritage at a time when Black Americans were teetering on the fulcrum of American cultural ...

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50²

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2004
Track listing: Inserted Space; Looping Journeys; Calling In Proceed; Deep Within; Smooth Interaction; Talk; Synchronicity.

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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat with Milford Graves

Read "A Fireside Chat with Milford Graves" reviewed by AAJ Staff


If you like the 'free jazz' or 'avant-garde' or 'loft' or 'downtown' or whatever other bullshit name they give this music, you are a fan of Milford Graves. You may not know it, but you are. Much like Henry Grimes, Graves is one of those musicians that those in the know, know and those in the, ...


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