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Rob Brown Trio: Sounds

Read "Sounds" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Sounds is as much a mission statement as a name for the debut CD by the Rob Brown Trio. Matching his alto saxophone with Daniel Levin's cello and Satoshi Takeishi's Japanese Taiko percussion, Brown frees himself from the expectations of the standard sax-plus-rhythm trio. The textural range of the instrumentation, particularly the exotic percussion and the ...

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We Are Not Obstinate Islands

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Down to the Roots (Rob Brown/Steve Swell/Harris Eisenstadt) - 11:24; 02. Past the Roots (Rob Brown/Steve Swell/Harris Eisenstadt) - 6:01; 03. The Unsure of Our Times (Rob Brown/Steve Swell/Harris Eisenstadt) - 9:07; 04. The Unsure of Our Answers (Rob Brown/Steve Swell/Harris Eisenstadt) - 10:08; 05. Buoyed In Great Days (Rob Brown/Steve Swell/Harris Eisenstadt) - 10:35;

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The Diplomats: We Are Not Obstinate Islands

Read "We Are Not Obstinate Islands" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La Clean Feed, coraggiosa casa discografica portoghese, continua con coerenza a presentare delle incisioni di free che testimoniano la vitalità del genere e come esso continui a evolversi all'interno di quelle che ormai sono diventate regole grammaticali e di sintassi di una musica per definizione libera. Il trombonista Steve Swell ha già praticato la formula del ...

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The Big Picture

Label: Marge
Released: 2004
Track listing: Dawning; Islands of Space; Wyoming Song; Trio Unsprung; Blues Thicket; Legroom.

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Rob Brown Quartet: The Big Picture

Read "The Big Picture" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Rob Brown's Big Picture Quartet includes William Parker, Hamid Drake, and Roy Campbell, the band responsible for the sublime Raining on the Moon with Lena Conquest, recorded as the William Parker Quartet, as well as playing together in different configurations yielding some of the most vital and essential recordings of the last decade. In the grand ...

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Round the Bend

Label: Bleu Regard
Released: 2003
Track listing: Lampost Ring, Ripples, Unwind, A Flower is a Lovesome Thing, Loaded Hand, A Whirl, Unfurling

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Rob Brown Trio: Round the Bend

Read "Round the Bend" reviewed by John Kelman


A mainstay of the New York improvising scene that includes Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, and William Parker (who appears on this date), alto saxophonist Rob Brown continues to cement his reputation as a player of note, evidenced on Round the Bend, a varied programme of free jazz . Brown’s fiery playing comes from the Anthony Braxton ...


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