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Room

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Abstract 12; Racy; The Scent of Light; Whispers From Eve; Blues, Too; Odd End; Amenette; Freesia/The Bond; Waxman; Calder.

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Article: Album Review

Adam Rudolph - Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Turning Towards The Light

Read "Turning Towards The Light" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This acoustic-electric guitar summit by an upper-echelon congregation of modernists yields a polychromatic listening experience, conducted and organized by composer, percussionist, Adam Rudolph. And it should come as no surprise that the musicians' distinct styles and vernaculars create added value here. Rudolph's proven track record of thinking outside the box and expanding jazz and world-beat music ...

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Mary Halvorson: Meltframe

Read "Meltframe" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


In a quietly forceful way, guitarist Mary Halvorson has cemented her place among the company of modern-day counterparts such as Eivind Aarset, Nels Cline and Terje Rypdal. The Brooklyn based composer/musician has performed with the likes of Anthony Braxton (both sharing credentials at Wesleyan University), cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum and the avant-garde group Trevor Dunn's ...

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Thollem McDonas / Michael Wimberly / Nels Cline: Radical Empathy

Read "Radical Empathy" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Radical Empathy is the second in a series of three musical encounters between keyboardist and musical instigator Thollem McDonas and multi-disciplinary guitar whiz Nels Cline. The first collaboration, titled simply The Gowanus Session (Porter Records, 2008), featured bassist William Parker and was notable for its resolute resistance to free jazz cliché. Uncannily, it found Cline, McDonas, ...

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Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar Three

Read "I Never Meta Guitar Three" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Il terzo volume della serie antologica curata da Elliott Sharp e dedicata alla chitarra del XXI secolo segue l'impostazione dei primi due, aggiungendo il contributo di altri 18 chitarristi. Come nel caso dei due precedenti, l'enfasi è dedicata all'esplorazione delle possibilità di generare nuove sonorità con una chitarra, acustica o elettrica, utilizzando tecniche per lo più ...

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Julian Lage: World's Fair

Read "World's Fair" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Guitarist Julian Lage's chameleon-like abilities have covered many styles from jazz in ensembles with vibraphonist Gary Burton and drummer Eric Harland to avant-free expressions with guitarist Nels Cline in Room (Mack Avenue, 2014) and folksy bluegrass with Punch Brother's member Chris Eldridge in Avalon (Modern Lore, 2014). A phenomenal technician Lage is more importantly a player ...

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San Jose Comics Shop Host Erik Deutsch And The Jazz Outlaws on July 14 at 7:30pm

San Jose Comics Shop Host Erik Deutsch And The Jazz Outlaws on July 14  at 7:30pm

Erik Deutsch and the Jazz Outlaws will be making San Jose's The Art Boutiki a stop on their current west cost tour, bringing their brand of country influenced jazz into one of the most unique venues in the country. Having first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama, Brooklyn-based pianist Erik ...

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Yells at Eels: In Quiet Waters

Read "In Quiet Waters" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


It would seem that trumpeter Dennis González could easily find a place among the better-known artists in jazz were it not for a deep commitment to making generally undefinable music and priorities that include putting his academic and literary responsibilities out front. From the time of his first release as a leader, Air Light (Sleep Sailor) ...

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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2015, Part 2

Read "Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2015, Part 2" reviewed by Mike Chamberlain


Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16-17, 2015 Part 1 | Part 2 The site of the Pavilion Arthabaska, a chalet on a hill above the town, is a popular spot in Victoriaville (think lookout and make out), not a place that is obvious ...

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Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2015, Part 1

Read "Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2015, Part 1" reviewed by Mike Chamberlain


Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville


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