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Carla Bley & Jack DeJohnette: ECM Trios

by Mark Sullivan
May 2, 2016

Two different approaches to the trio, led by veteran ECM bandleaders. Big band composer/pianist Carla Bley continues her recent run of chamber ensemble recordings, reconvening her trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow, most recently heard on Trios (ECM, 2013). The grouping gives much more focus on her piano playing than her large group ...

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Jon Irabagon: Inaction is an Action & Behind the Sky

by Doug Collette
May 1, 2016

It's a rare musician who can find ways to excel in multiple contexts, but saxophonist/composer Jon Irabagon is just such an artist. His timeline contains entries as collaborator as well as leader and his respective contributions are equally distinctive, suggesting his humility is equaled only by his independence. Because the nuances of his compositions are as ...

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Rich Robinson: Solo Reissues

by Doug Collette
April 30, 2016

The co-founding siblings of the Black Crowes, Chris and Rich Robinson have taken markedly different approaches to their projects outside the confines of that now-defunct (?) band. During the group's first self-imposed hiatus the former put together a band to tour as well as record, ta sequence of events leading directly to the formation of his ...

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La generosità di Jorrit Dijkstra

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 26, 2016

Cinquantenne sassofonista di Eindhoven, anima (fra le altre) di The Whammies, gruppo dedito alla rilettura del songbook di Steve Lacy, Jorrit Dijkstra sforna album con una certa generosità tramite la sua etichetta discografica Driff Records, evitando accuratamente i colpi a salve. Jorrit Dijkstra, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Curt Newton Matchbox

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Something old, something new, something reissued, something Brötzmann blew.

by Mark Corroto
April 21, 2016

Can the entire history of a musical genre be encoded in one man's DNA? If that is possible, then reading the DeoxyriboNucleic Acid molecules in saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's body would yield all the information a musical scientist studying the development of free jazz would require. Since the 1960s, he has been in the center of the ...

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Tutti intorno al piano di Frank Carlberg

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 7, 2016

Finlandese di nascita e bostoniano d'adozione, il pianista e compositore Frank Carlberg, docente al New England Conservatory e al Berklee College of Music, influenzato da Paul Bley e Ran Blake così come da Jimmy Giuffre, ha collaborato nel tempo con Steve Lacy (ci torneremo), Bob Brookmeyer e Kenny Wheeler, ha scritto musica anche per organici di ...

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John David Souther: Black Rose and Home By Dawn

by Doug Collette
March 26, 2016

John David Souther was an outlaw among outlaws in the Seventies clique of self-styled desperadoes of Los Angeles-based country rock. A frequent collaborator with, but never actually a member of, the Eagles, he readily admits, in one set of liner notes author Scott Schinder wisely devotes to the artist's own verbiage, that his iconoclastic nature didn't ...

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Dominican Jazz from Summit Records: The Dominican Jazz Project & Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra

by Mark Sullivan
March 24, 2016

There must be something in the air, as the Dominican Republic suddenly finds representation on two latin jazz releases from Summit Records. The Dominican Jazz Project grew out of pianist Stephen Anderson's visit to the 2014 Jazzomania Jazz Festival in Santo Domingo. After an additional visit--and additional new musical friendships--the group agreed to record together. So ...

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Two contrasting releases from Stefan Thut

by John Eyles
March 23, 2016

Swiss composer and cellist Stefan Thut was born in 1968. Trained at the Lucerne Conservatory then at Boston University School of Music, he is now based in the Swiss canton of Solothurn. After experiences in new and experimental music, improvisation and noise he started composing, writing scores. A member of the Wandelweiser group, as ...

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Marc Copland: Zenith and Haunted Heart

by John Ephland
March 11, 2016

Zenith InnerVoice Jazz 2016 There's some shared, ongoing history here. Between drummer Joey Baron and bassist Drew Gress, pianist Marc Copland has logged some pretty decent music time. Add trumpeter Ralph Alessi and there's a new element, one not found in the rhythm section's work with guitarist John Abercrombie or in the ...