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Door

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Of; After Meaning; Less; Balanced; Bend; Cycle I; Pivot Point; Pivot Point Redux; Ghost Time; Cycle II; Rai.

Album

Party Intellectuals

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Break On Through; Party Intellectuals; Todo El Mundo Es Kitsch; When We Were Young and We Were Freaks; Digital Handshake; Bateau; For Malena; Pinch; Girlfriend; Midost; ShSh ShSh; Never Better.

Album

Vision Towards Essence

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.

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Rudresh Mahanthappa / Kadri Gopalnath: Kinsmen

Read "Kinsmen" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Kinsmen is the physical actualization of a long path that started with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's desire to create a music that is a hybrid (not a fusion) of American jazz and classical Indian Carnatic music. Improvisation is central to both aesthetics with differing emphases, embodied primarily in the playing of Mahanthappa and alto saxophonist Kadri ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa: Kinsmen

Read "Kinsmen" reviewed by J Hunter


It's hard to know what key will open a locked door. For Rudresh Mahanthappa, the door was his desire to meld the compositional and improvisatory esthetics of jazz and Indian classical music. Mahanthappa's key arrived when his brother gave him a post-recital gag gift: A CD by legendary Indian musician Kadri Gopalnath called Saxophone Indian Style ...

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Fieldwork: Door

Read "Door" reviewed by Lyn Horton


The selection of which avenue to follow in music is the whole ball game to sustain the integrity of a particular venture. On Fieldwork's Door, the measure of the music's success has to do with the recognition that it centers within a specific tonal range. The alto sax, played by Steve Lehman, establishes that range. There ...

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Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals

Read "Party Intellectuals" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Inquadrare, classificare, etichettare. Il compito di chi scrive una recensione spesso si riduce, per mere questioni pratiche o per manifesta incapacità, a indicare le assonanze che richiamano un artista e la sua opera. Beh, provateci voi con Marc Ribot. Dalla no wave newyorchese alle genialate di Tom Waits, dalla scuderia zorniana alla downtown, dalla musica cubana ...

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Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals

Read "Party Intellectuals" reviewed by Troy Collins


Ceramic Dog, legendary guitarist Marc Ribot's new power trio, opens their appropriately titled debut album, Party Intellectuals, with a riotous statement of intent; tearing through a grungy surf-punk take on The Door's “Break on Through," the trio proves they're here to party, political puns notwithstanding. Ribot's renowned sideman work with Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, ...

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Fieldwork: Door

Read "Door" reviewed by Troy Collins


In the three years since their sophomore recording, Simulated Progress (Pi Recordings, 2005), the collective trio Fieldwork has expanded its scope beyond sophisticated M-Base funk to delve into more expansive territory on Door. Comprised of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshaw Sorey, Fieldwork operates as a true cooperative, offering a model of balanced ...

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Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence

Read "Vision Towards Essence" reviewed by Martin Longley


This is a live solo piano set from 1998's Guelph Jazz Festival, in Canada. Chicagoan-cum-New York pianist Muhal Richard Abrams performs the album's title piece, which is around an hour long and is divided into three parts. Ultimately, there are only the tiniest breaks in this improvisation and these demarcations only exist for listening convenience. Once ...


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