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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 29, 2006

Il batterista Paul Motian compie 75 anni e si rimette in discussione con una nuova versione del suo gruppo allargato che cambia nome e diventa semplicemente Paul Motian Band perdendo i riferimenti all'Electric Bebop. Allo stesso tempo nella strumentazione del gruppo si aggiunge una chitarra e questa mossa porta a tre le presenze dello strumento che ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 6, 2006

Despite the passage of time, drummer Paul Motian, now 75, continues to develop his singular take on jazz tradition while simultaneously exploring its storied history. Altering his much-lauded Electric Bebop Band by adding a third guitarist to the mix, Motian makes a break with recent convention. Forsaking another album primarily dependent on rearranged bop standards, Motian ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 4, 2006

For about the last fifteen years, drummer Paul Motian has explored the possibilities of two guitars, two saxophones, bass and drums with his Electric Bebop Band. Always drawing from a revolving cast of younger, emergent musicians, he augments the lineup with another guitar on Garden of Eden. Though a septet with this instrumentation ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden Of Eden

Read "Garden Of Eden" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
January 24, 2006

On Garden Of Eden, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band shortens its name and lengthens its stride to present a new artistic agenda. Recalibrations of the bop and hard bop repertoires stay on the bill, but only in a supporting role: the main event now is original material, most of it composed by Motian. (Nine of the ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
January 22, 2006

If Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude had been put to music, it might have sounded like Garden of Eden. That novel has a feeling of timelessness, fecund vegetation, thick air, filtered sunlight, and a natural beauty that is almost frightening in its immediacy and intensity. The history of this group goes ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

Read "Garden of Eden" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 17, 2006

A recent bulletin board poster suggested that “any human being's imagination and creative thinking wanes with age." Considering how many artists in their sixties and beyond remain not only vital, but are creating some of their best work, it's an easy supposition to refute. Drummer Paul Motian is the perfect example--despite some travel restrictions due to ...