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Blood Sweat & Tears: Child is Father to the Man

by Trevor MacLaren
September 2, 2005

Blood Sweat & Tears Child is Father to the Man Columbia 1968 Most people remember Blood Sweat & Tears as the incarnation led by the gravel-voiced white blues of David Clayton-Thomas. During his tenure as leader, the hits “Spinning Wheel," “And When I Die," and “Hi-De-Ho" helped to bring pop/rock/jazz ...

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George Benson: The Other Side of Abbey Road

by Trevor MacLaren
August 17, 2005

George Benson The Other Side of Abbey Road A&M 1969 I have to admit I have never been a huge fan of George Benson. I respect the man because he is an amazing guitarist with an extraordinary original technique. Yet his chosen sound and genre limits what could ...

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Patty Waters: Sings

by Trevor MacLaren
July 18, 2005

Patty Waters Sings ESP-Disk 1965 Independent labels like Bernard Stollmann's ESP-Disk lacked sufficient funds to lend much of a push behind their roster. Because of this fact, much of the label's talent has been neglected or left to a cult following. It seems hard to believe today--with a ...

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Escalator Over The Hill

by Trevor MacLaren
June 8, 2005

The late '60s and early '70s played a great role in the development of youth culture and politics, but it was also a heady age for jazz, where the great changes of funk, rock, and counterculture seeped into improvised music and changed it forever. Not only were the established movers and shakers of jazz creating a ...

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Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages

by Trevor MacLaren
May 13, 2005

Sonny SharrockAsk the AgesAxiom1991 Although Charlie Christian introduced the electric guitar to jazz in 1939, everyone playing the instrument in jazz kept his sound and ideas embodied in their playing until the late '60s. During this period the instrument became a vital part of the emerging fusion ...

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James Chance and the Contortions: Buy

by Trevor MacLaren
February 7, 2005

James Chance and the Contortions Buy (a/k/a Buy The Contortions) ZE 1979 Since the 1960s jazz has played an important part in the deconstruction of western music. Jazz has lent its ideologies to a variety of new musical forms that have grown into some of the most interesting ...

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Albert Ayler: New Grass

by Trevor MacLaren
November 29, 2004

Albert Ayler New Grass Impulse! 1968 If there is one word that is poison in the minds of jazz fans and critics, it's sellout. If any musician, for whatever reason, decides to change their sound in a way that could be considered commercial, they have committed the deadliest ...

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Archie Shepp: Attica Blues

by Trevor MacLaren
November 2, 2004

Archie Shepp Attica Blues Impulse! 1972 In November of 2004, the world stage is set on the American election. In a post-9/11 world the masses have become paranoid, tense and angry. At the forefront is George W. Bush's foreign policy. Thirty years ago artists found themselves in a similar plight ...

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Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

by Trevor MacLaren
October 8, 2004

Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia 1969Recording in February 1969, Miles Davis seemed to pick up the vibe of what was going to go down that crazy summer. It was a tumultuous time as the sixties came to a close. First came the Manson Family, then the ...

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Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz

by Trevor MacLaren
August 21, 2004

Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions of New Jazz Delmark 1968 In the 1960s a new fuse had been lit under the ass of jazz. As musicians of the bop era drove out hard bop, free jazz and modal works, avant-garde was slowly taking root as well. Growing from the seeds of ...