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Article: Interview

Michel Delville: Guitar, Improv & Electro

Read "Michel Delville: Guitar, Improv & Electro" reviewed by Jean-Pierre Goffin

by Jean-Pierre Goffin

Besides teaching at the University of Liège, Michel Delville is widely regarded as one of the most original musicians and composers of the current jazz, rock and jazz-rock scenes. His latest offering, Machine Mass' INTI (2014), recorded with Dave Liebman and Tony Bianco, has just been released by New-York-based label MoonJune Records. Michel Delville: ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Ballard Trio: Time's Tales

Read "Time's Tales" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

For several decades Jeff Ballard has been the first call drummer for a host of contemporary jazz's biggest names, notably pianist Brad Mehldau, with whom Ballard has played since 2005. Of late, however, Ballard has gone it alone. The 2013 debut shows of his quartet Fairgrounds, featuring electronics musician/bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Tigran Hamasyan and guitarist ...

News: Award / Grant

Chamber Music America Announces 2014 New Jazz Works Deadline

Chamber Music America announces a March 7, 2014 application deadline for its 2014 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development grant opportunity. New Jazz Works supports U.S. jazz ensembles (2-10 musicians) with the creation and performance of new works, and activities that extend the life of the work. To date, 171 projects have been funded through ...

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Article: Album Review

Mumpbeak: Mumpbeak

Read "Mumpbeak" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

When considering most instances of progressive rock, Mumpbeak is a horse of a different color. With four world- class bassists, chiefly performing on alternating tracks, and keyboardist Roy Powell's unearthly sound-shaping mechanisms garnered from an electronically souped-up Hohner clavinet, the band brashly merges a doomsday panorama with insurrectionary tactics. King Crimson drummer ...

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Article: Interview

Wadada Leo Smith: I'm A Dreamer

Read "Wadada Leo Smith: I'm A Dreamer" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

As dreamers go trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith lies at the more serious end of the spectrum. Not for him dreams that fade with the daylight, as evidenced by the realization of his epic Civil Rights inspired Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012). Smith actually composed the first piece of what developed into a 21 piece magnum opus ...

News: Performance / Tour

Matthew Shipp Solo – The Piano Sutras Project

Matthew Shipp Solo – The Piano Sutras Project

Thursday, January 30, 2014 @ 8:00 pm One of the most distinctive and radically experimental voices in jazz, pianist, composer, and bandleader Matthew Shipp presents an intimate solo recital culled from the stunning masterpieces from his acclaimed 2013 solo album, Piano Sutras, released on Thirsty Ear. Starting with the bold compositions from Sutras, which has been ...

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Article: Album Review

Amy Cervini: Jazz Country

Read "Jazz Country" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

This album title is something of a double entendre. It references the jazz community that surrounds the lady of the hour, but it's really about the nexus that exists between the two American-born forms of music that make up its name. Therefore, it could be said that Jazz Country is missing a hyphen, but that's about ...

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Article: Album Review

William Hooker: Heart of the Sun

Read "Heart  of the Sun" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Suddenly Heart Of The Sun from veteran drummer William Hooker's The Gift looks a whole lot more poignant. With the passing of trumpeter Roy Campbell in January 2014, Hooker has been deprived of one of his longest collaborators. Campbell first appeared alongside the drummer on Colour Circle (CJR, 1989) as part of the self styled three ...

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Article: Album Review

Albert Ayler: Lorrach, Paris 1966

Read "Lorrach, Paris 1966" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

This is the third edition of the original pressing by hatOLOGY records, containing re-masters of tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler's live performances in Lorrach, Germany, and live tracks recorded at the Paris jazz festival, culled from his 1966 European tour. In the liners, Peter Niklas Wilson asserts that the George Wein produced the “Newport in Europe" tour ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Pat Metheny Unity Group: Kin (←→)

Read "Pat Metheny Unity Group: Kin (←→)" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Strangely enough, the release of Kin () may be the one that most polarizes longtime fans of guitarist Pat Metheny. There are those who feel that, beginning with 2005's last recording with his then-longstanding Pat Metheny Group, that he'd become too complex, too chops-heavy and too distanced from the accessible music of recordings like Travels (ECM, ...


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