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Yelena Eckemoff And Cory Smythe: Imagination Unbound

by Doug Collette
September 4, 2023

Yelena Eckemoff and Cory Smythe have configured mirror images in music that reflect global mindsets of race, gender and class in the wake of COVID lockdowns and in the midst of climate change (among other controversies). The former postulates an insular existence populated only by a single individual and a sole figure with whom he finds ...

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Mark Dresser: Tines of Change

Read "Tines of Change" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz

by Jeff Schwartz
August 3, 2023

Since his arrival as a member of Anthony Braxton's mid-1980s quartet, Mark Dresser has been expanding the sonic palette of the upright bass. Like Barre Phillips, Barry Guy, and Joëlle Léandre before him, Dresser drew from both the classical avant-garde of players such as Bertram Turetzky and Fernando Grillo and the more intuitive improvisational approaches of ...

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The Perils of Self Betterment

July 29, 2023

Album: Brutalovechamp
By Brandon Seabrook
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 4:28

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Mark Dresser: Tines of Change

Read "Tines of Change" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
May 31, 2023

Anyone familiar with the work of bassist Mark Dresser knows that he is an uncompromising innovator, always dedicated to pushing his music into new territory; and if that requires novel technical modifications to his instrument itself, then so be it. He has partnered with fellow bassist Kent McLagan as far back as 2001 to create adapted ...

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Prolotine

May 17, 2023

Album: Tines of Change
By Mark Dresser
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 3:55

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Anticipation

May 14, 2023

Album: The Last Quiet Place
By Ingrid Laubrock
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:35

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Sylvie Courvoisier / Cory Smythe: The Rite of Spring: Spectre d’un songe

Read "The Rite of Spring: Spectre d’un songe" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 1, 2023

Two daring jazz improvisers take on a cherished hundred-year-old classical ballet masterpiece with radical roots on The Rite of Spring: Spectre d'un songe. Igor Stravinsky was fresh off the success of his 1911 “Petrushka," which radiated with the artistic atmosphere of his Russia, when in 1913 he premiered “The Rite of Spring" at the opening of ...

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Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place

Read "The Last Quiet Place" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
April 30, 2023

Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock always seems to search out new instrumental configurations for her music. This time out, she and her musical and life partner, drummer Tom Rainey, collaborate with a quartet of accomplished string players, guitarist Brandon Seabrook, violinist Mazz Swift, cellist Tomeka Reid, and bassist Michael Formanek. Together they create stimulating music which can be ...

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Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place

Read "The Last Quiet Place" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 27, 2023

A tre anni e mezzo dalla sua incisione (settembre 2019), giunge all'ufficialità della pubblicazione questo notevole album della cinquantaduenne sassofonista tedesca Ingrid Laubrock, capace di regalarci una volta di più testimonianza eloquente del suo valore, come tutta una serie di collaborazioni quanto mai prestigiose e la sua stessa produzione discografica, abbondante ed esauriente, ci avevano detto ...