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Article: Album Review

Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago

Read "You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago" reviewed by John Kelman


Mats Gustafsson and the word “accessible" are rarely found in the same sentence. For over two decades, this Swedish reed player has been mining the extreme end of free improvisation and cued composition with like-minded players including Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, and The Thing, his ongoing collective with bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. ...

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Article: Album Review

Rodrigo Amado: The Abstract Truth

Read "The Abstract Truth" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, bassist Kent Kessler, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an international trio featuring players from Portugal, United States and Norway, respectively. But on its second recording, The Abstract Truth, the assemblage speaks the same language; its mother tongue being hard-hitting, concise improvisation. This disc follows the Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), the trio's ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Han Bennink Trio: Parken

Read "Han Bennink Trio: Parken" reviewed by David McLean


Han Bennink Trio Parken Ilk Music 2009 One of the most iconic players from the European free-music scene, Han Bennink's 50 plus year career has seen the Dutch master drummer traverse through a multitude of musical settings. Bennink's journey has embraced revolutionary, avant-jazz recordings such as saxophonist Peter ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race

Read "Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.


Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Canada Trust 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Read "TD Canada Trust 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz FestivalVancouver, CAJune 26th-July 5th Probably one of the few places on the planet not deep in mourning for recently deceased pop star Michael Jackson was Vancouver, on the western coast of Canada, or at least the parts of the city given over to the 24th annual TD ...

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Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009

Read "Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-12, 2009 In a survey conducted recently by the renowned Monocle Magazine (volume 03, issue 25), Copenhagen was selected as the second best city in the world due to its safety, atmosphere, welfare, infrastructure and--one could be tempted to add--its ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2009: Day 6

Read "Vision Festival 2009: Day 6" reviewed by John Sharpe


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Planet Dream / Fred Anderson Trio / Michelle Rosewoman and Quintessence / Whit Dickey/Eri Yamamoto/Daniel Carter / Peter Brotzmann's Full Blast Trio 14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 5

Read "Vision Festival 2009: Day 5" reviewed by John Sharpe


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Seth Meicht's Big Sound Ensemble / Bear and Eagle / Darius Jones Trio / Matthew Shipp / Rob Brown Trio / Milford Graves Quartet / Lisa Sokolov Trio / Joe Morris GoGo Mambo 14th Annual ...

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Article: Profile

Gregg Bendian

Read "Gregg Bendian" reviewed by Bill Milkowski


Since the early '90s, drummer Gregg Bendian has distinguished himself as an adventurous and accomplished player-composer through his sideman work with the likes of Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann and Pat Metheny while also leading his own Interzone Quartet and Trio Pianissimo. His most recent recording is the startlingly virtuosic solo ...

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Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit

Read "Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...


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