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N.O. Moore starts his own dx/dy label
by John Eyles
With his Debut label, founded in 1952, Charles Mingus is often credited as being the first musician to set up his own independent record label, to avoid the hassle of working for major companies. Although Debut was rather short-lived, it paved the way for other improvising musicians to set up their own labels with greater success; ...
Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Laswell, and Milford Graves: Sacred Ceremonies & Trumpet
by Mike Jurkovic
The 1960's and '70s held such promise, but many artists settle for what is handed down. Two new box sets featuring Wadada Leo Smith with Bill Laswell and Milford Graves show three visionaries willing to build on those promises without compromise. Wadada Leo Smith with MIlford Graves and Bill Laswell Sacred Ceremonies
2 Debuts = 2 Quartets
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Bebop idioms prove far from extinct on these debut albums from two hungry cats, leading vigorous quartets with the mission to carry the bop torch of a young jazz generation. Nathan Francis Nathan Francis Quartet Ajabu! Records 2021 American bassist Nathan Francis has been based out of Helsinki, ...
Gianmaria Aprile e Massimo Garritano: visioni sonore solitarie
by Mario Calvitti
Recentemente sono stati pubblicati due lavori di chitarristi italiani accomunati da una gestazione molto simile, anche se molto diversi nei risultati musicali. Entrambi sono stati concepiti e realizzati durante un isolamento volontario degli artisti nei loro paesi di origine ai lati opposti della penisola (Lombardia per Gianmaria Aprile, Calabria per Massimo Garritano), in mezzo alla natura, ...
Feed Your Head: The Sound Field and Lauren Murphy
by Doug Collette
As one of three lead vocalists and four composers in Jefferson Airplane at its peak of creativity, Grace Slick may not always get the respect and recognition she deserves in the annals of contemporary rock and roll. But the woman was the most recognizable voice of the band and also its most significant songwriter, singing lead ...
Alternative Guitar: Elif Yalvaç, Rachika Nayar, SkyCreature, Kristinn Kristinsson and Tristan Welch
by Mark Sullivan
There is something about the electric guitar that inspires players to utilize electronics to create a more complex sound than previously possible with a solo guitar. Electronic processing offers ways to dramatically alter the guitar's dynamic envelope and timbre, sometimes resulting in a guitar that does not sound like a guitar at all. Add on live ...
Two from Max Bober
by John Eyles
In July 2020, the Argentine-born, Warsaw-based violinist and composer Max Bober attended Wandelweiser's annual week-long festival Klangraum, in Dusseldorf, as he had been doing since 2018 when he first met Wandelweiser's Managing Director Antoine Beuger and had a mentoring week with him. At the 2020 Klangraum, Bober led daily realisations of his piece “We Have Time" ...
Heavy Organ Indeed: Chester Thompson and The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
by Doug Collette
No less of an esteemed musical figure than Steve Winwood has waxed rhapsodic about the instrumental potential of the Hammond B3 organ. Doubtlessly Chester Thompson and Delvon Lamarr would extol the keyboard's virtues too and neither would relegate their praise to mere words either, at least based on their two albums centered around it. Witness, for ...
Global Folk and Fusions
by Geno Thackara
It's a wide world out there, yet as vast as it gets, there are always players finding common ground between its most far-flung corners. Naïsaam Jalal and Rhythms of Resistance Un Autre Monde Les Couleurs du Son2021 Ten years is an impressive tenure for any musical outfit, so Naïssam ...
The Pandemic Sessions: Solos, Part 2
by Mark Corroto
Part 1 | Part 2 The entire world was in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, and of course, that included musicians. Unable to tour and record with their various ensembles, many artists prepared solo projects (some recorded before the virus struck). Most of the music is very personal, as if the artists are asking ...
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