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Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance: Synovial Joints

Read "Synovial Joints" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 17, 2015

Composer and saxophonist Steve Coleman grew up in Chicago's AACM neighborhood before moving on to New York's big band scene in the 1970s. Diverse influences combined with his assorted academic interests in philosophy, world religion and nature, have made him a source for some of the most unique music of the past twenty years. While not ...

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Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

by John Ephland
April 10, 2015

Tyshawn Sorey's Alloy is, if nothing else, a wondrous reconfiguration of the so-called jazz piano trio. Some may quibble as to the nomenclature but drummer Sorey's four through-composed compositions are pure jazz expression, if what we mean by that term is melodic, harmonic and rhythmic improvisation within a larger context. That Sorey is yet ...

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Hafez Modirzadeh: In Convergence Liberation

Read "In Convergence Liberation" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 15, 2015

Inciso nel 2011 riunendo pagine tutte a firma del multistrumentista di origine iraniana (ma nato a Durham, Carolina del Nord, nel 1962) Hafez Modirzadeh, questo lavoro è per più di un verso emblematico di come si possa far felicemente convivere ambizioni compositive post-accademiche, seduzioni di memoria etnica e pruriti jazzistici di stampo contemporaneo.Vi trovano ...

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Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

by Glenn Astarita
January 9, 2015

Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has evolved into one of the more sought after drummers in the jazz and improvisational strata on a global basis. His ever expanding resume is difficult to keep up with. And he possesses immense chops as a polyrhythmic powerhouse, but focuses his empathetic support on a variety of levels, including diverse compositional frameworks, ...

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Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project

By Vijay Iyer

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Here (Mike, Cambridge); Derelict Poetry (Maurice, Brooklyn); Capacity (Lynn, Bronx); Walking with the Duppy (Rashan, Queens); There is a Man Slouching in the Stairway (Maurice); My Fire (Brad, Chester, NC); On Patrol (Maurice, Brooklyn); Dream of an Ex-Ranger (William, Newton, MA); Name (Lynn, Bronx); Costume (Mike, Cambridge); Tormented Star of Morning (Maurice, Brooklyn); Patton (Calvin, Massapequa, NY); Shush(Maurice, Brooklyn); REM Killer (Kirk, Lexington, KY); Requiem for an Insomniac (Maurice, Brooklyn); Dreams in Color (Lynn, Bronx); Mess Hall (Merrin, San Diego).

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Mise en Abîme

By Steve Lehman

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Segregated and Sequential; 13 Colors; Glass Enclosure Transcription; Codes: Brice Wassy; Autumn Interlude; Beyond All Limits; Chimer/Luchini; Parisian Thoroughfare Transcription.

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Alchemy

By Amir ElSaffar

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ishtarum; Nid qablitum; Embubum-Ishatum-Pitum; 12 Cycles; Quartal; Balad; Five Phases; Athar Kurd; Miniature 1; 10; Ending Piece.

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Live At The Village Vanguard

By Marc Ribot

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Dearly Beloved; The Wizard; Old Man River; Bells; I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You); Sun Ship.

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Fiction

By Matt Mitchell

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Veins; Brain Color; Upright; Singe; Wanton Eon; Dadaist Flu; Commas; Id Balm; Ohm Nuggets; Diction; Tether; Action Field; Specialty Hug; Nightmare Tesseract; Narcotic Bases.

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