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Rob Mazurek

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Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film and installation, who spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and then Brazil. He currently lives and works in Marfa Texas with his wife Britt Mazurek. Mazurek was born in 1965 in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1975 he moved with his family to a suburb of Chicago where he started playing cornet at the age of 10. A confrontation with the music of Sun Ra at the age of 16 at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1981 had inspired Mazurek to want to become a serious composer performer

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Hyperglyph

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Click Song; Hyperglyph; Rhythm Cloth; Contents of Your Heavenly Body; The Gathering; Plymouth; Hemiunu; Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect; Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation of Light; Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics of Time; Succulent Amber.

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Article: Album Review

Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph

Read "Hyperglyph" reviewed by James Taylor


International Anthem is a fitting home for the first Chicago Underground Duo album after an 11-year hiatus. The Chicago-based and buzzworthy label has carried the torch for avant-garde sounds in the city since 2014, and trumpeter and composer Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor are no strangers to the label's catalog, performing together on multiple IARC ...

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Article: Album Review

Gabriele Mitelli Three Tsuru Origami: Colapesce

Read "Colapesce" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The second release from Gabriele Mitelli's Three Tsuru Origami ensemble shifts from the literal to the symbolic, expanding both in concept and personnel. Their debut, Three Tsuru Origami (We Insist!, 2022), was a meditation on birds and migration. This follow-up, Colapesce, draws inspiration from the 12th-century Sicilian legend of a half-man, half-fish who sacrifices himself to ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Rob Mazurek, Ches Smith, Steve Lehman, and Joe Fonda

Read "Rob Mazurek, Ches Smith, Steve Lehman, and Joe Fonda" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features recent recordings by Joe Fonda, Steve Lehman and Ches Smith as well as older ones by Rob Mazurek, Kevin Sun, and Emily Remler. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jethro Tull “Serenade ...

Article: Live Review

MetJazz 25 - Prima Parte

Read "MetJazz 25 - Prima Parte" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


MetJazz 25 Teatro Metastasio, Teatro Fabbricone, ed altre sedi Prato Prima parte: 20 gennaio-25 febbraio 2025 Edizione speciale per MetJazz, il festival di Prato diretto da Stefano Zenni e prodotto dalla Fondazione Teatro Metastasio, che quest'anno celebra il trentennale e per farlo raddoppia la sua durata e moltiplica gli appuntamenti. ...

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Article: Album Review

Stemeseder Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III

Read "Umbra III" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Sometimes, the subversion of established paradigms unfolds through incremental variations and subtle shifts in the status quo--so gradual they can be almost imperceptible. Other times, transformation arrives in the form of unexpected revolutions, seismic and undeniable. Somewhere between these two extremes lie the musical experiments of Elias Stemeseder and Christian Lillinger. The Austrian-German duo--pianist, ...

Article: Album Review

Rob Mazurek Quartet: Color Systems

Read "Color Systems" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


In parallelo con lavori che spaziano dal solo all'orchestra, Rob Mazurek, uomo-musica ormai giunto sulla soglia dei sessanta ma non per questo meno vorace e curioso di un tempo, ci regala questo album in quartetto (e che quartetto!) imperniato su sei brani comprensivi di altrettante dediche (del resto non è una novità). La sua tromba cementa ...

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Color Systems

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: Four Page Color System for Louise Nevelson; Four Page Color System for Frank Bowling; Four Page Color System for Lygia Pape; Four Page Color System for Richard Tuttle; Nineteen Colors on a Three-Sided Box for Nuno Ramos; Three Colors on a Four-Sided Box for Ellsworth Kelly.

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Milan

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Magic Yellow Bucket (for Marcello Lorrai); Bar Basso (for Corrado Beldi); Sbagliato; Collectors of Bones (for Fabio Poletti); Moss Covered Hips; Sun Dials Gestations (for Massimo De Carlo); In Particles Deceptive Light; Collimated and Trestled.


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