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Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium

Read "Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
July 31, 2006

It seemed that the tireless Art Ensemble of Chicago might have reached its denouement with the passing of Malachi Favors in 2004. Coupled with Favors' demise, Lester Bowie's death in 1999, six years after Joseph Jarman first resigned, seemed prophetic. Undaunted, the remaining original members soldiered on, and for the first time in their history, they ...

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Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly

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by Troy Collins
May 20, 2006

Ophiuchus Butterfly is guitarist Liberty Ellman's third release as a leader, but his widest exposure has come as guitarist in Henry Threadgill's acoustic Zooid ensemble. From the distinctive opening notes of the title track, one can hear that Ellman has been absorbing lessons from the master. Blending Threadgill's taste for multiethnic rhythms and Eastern scales with ...

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Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly

Read "Ophiuchus Butterfly" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 27, 2006

Being different just for the sake of being different is simply not enough. But then Liberty Ellman has never fit into the category of a run-of-the-mill jazz guitarist. Like a Bohemian artisan who dabbles in a variety of styles yet develops a unique identity, Ellman has performed impressively within mainstream, abstract jazz, and hip-hop settings--sometimes combining ...

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Steve Lehman: Demian as Posthuman

Read "Demian as Posthuman" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
February 7, 2006

How can a disc with Steve Lehman, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyshawn Sorey and Vijay Iyer go wrong? Demian as Posthuman clocks in at a short, sweet 37 minutes and is essentially a series of sax/drum duets with variations on the same theme (electric bassist Ndegeocello and drummer Eric McPherson are on three of twelve cuts, Iyer on ...

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Odyssey the Band: Back in Time

Read "Back in Time" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
January 22, 2006

Guitarist/vocalist James “Blood Ulmer has managed to recreate himself as a bluesman in the last few years, as he convincingly demonstrated on last year's Birthright (Hyena). On that set of unaccompanied solo pieces, Ulmer somehow made his wildly unique unison tuning and Ornette-derived harmolodic sensibility sound like the very essence of the blues. It was the ...

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Back In Time

By Odyssey the Band

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005

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Spiritual Unity

By Marc Ribot

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Invocation; Spirits; Truth Is Marching In; Saints; Bells.

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Demian As Posthuman

By Steve Lehman

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Vapors; Demian; Damage Mobility - Acoustic; Damage Mobility; Cognition - Curtis Duncan; Cognition - Drew Hill; Logic - Me'Shell; Logic - Tyshawn; Cognition - Ernest Givens; Cognition - Haywood Jeffries; Emphonic; Community.

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Mother Tongue

By Rudresh Mahanthappa

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Preserver; English; Kannada; Gujarati; Telugu; Circus; Konkani; Tamil; Malayalam; Change of Perspective

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