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Peter Erskine: Worth The Wait & Standards

by Budd Kopman
April 4, 2008

Drummer Peter Erskine broke into the music business in 1972 with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and has not stopped for breath since. He recorded five albums in his first four years, starting in 1978 with Weather Report, and both led and played on a large number of albums for the ECM label. As one can see ...

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The Wrong Object Come of Age

by Nic Jones
March 21, 2008

There's no risk of hyperbole in stating that The Wrong Object come of age over the course of these two discs. Platform One is the earlier of the two and it finds the band in febrile form in the company of esteemed guests trombonist Annie Whitehead and trumpeter Harry Beckett, two players whose efforts have over ...

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Membran: Jammin' At Condon's & From New Orleans to London/New Orleans Joys

by Michael Steinman
March 19, 2008

Eddie Condon Jammin' at Condon's Mebran 2008 Ken Colyer/Chris Barber New Orleans to London/New Orleans Joys Mebran 2008 Misled by their retro packaging, a listener might unintentionally dismiss both ...

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Cacao Musica: Aquiles Baez & Negroni's Trio

by Ernest Barteldes
March 18, 2008

Aquiles Baez LA Patilla Cacao Musica 2008 Negroni's Trio Father & Son Cacao Musica 2008 “We have grown up indoctrinated with models that ideologically do not represent ...

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Cellos: Erik Friedlander & Rufus Cappadocia

by Donald Elfman
March 17, 2008

Erik Friedlander Volac Tzadik 2008 Rufus Cappadocia Songs for Cello Velour 2008 “The cello is the most perfect instrument aside from the human voice." --Zuill Bailey

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Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company

by Clifford Allen
March 16, 2008

Forty-one years after beginning his recording career on the day after John Coltrane's funeral in sessions led by trombonist Clifford Thornton (Freedom & Unity, Third World, 1967), saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee is indeed the yeoman legend of the modern jazz-world. For many years a factory worker and sometime professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New ...

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Adam Lane: Buffalo & Four Corners

by Marc Medwin
March 16, 2008

Adam Lane Buffalo CIMP 2007 Magnus Broo / Adam Lane / Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark 4 Corners Clean Feed 2007 These two recent releases prove, if further proof ...

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William Parker: Blue Shadows & The Last Dances

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 15, 2008

Charles Gayle Blue Shadows Silkheart 2007 Hamid Drake/Anders Gahnold/William Parker The Last Dances Ayler 2007 Over the last decade (this year marks the 10th anniversary of his brilliant Peach ...

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Elliott Sharp: pi:k (2004/5) & Breaking News

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 14, 2008

Elliott Sharp/Charlotte Hug pi:k (2004/5) Emanem 2007 Simone Massaron Breaking News Long Song 2007 For two relatively similar instruments, the guitar and the viola have very different sounds. At ...

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Bob James and Paul Bley: Early Free Piano Trios on ESP-Disk

by Clifford Allen
March 13, 2008

Though ESP-Disk is mostly thought of as a label that proffers free music as a saxophonist-led revolution-- with numerous discs by figures like Albert Ayler, Frank Wright, Marion Brown and Giuseppi Logan--the piano's place in their early catalog is certainly notable. Among the early releases are a solo date from Ran Blake, trio and ...