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Thiefs

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Doute/s; All Day; DayBaby; The Actual Neef; Olive Island; Hurricane Daze; Sans Titre (Huile Sur Toile); The World Without Us; TWWU; Play Me At Night.

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Article: We Travel the Spaceways

The Dude Abides

Read "The Dude Abides" reviewed by Mark Corroto


To paraphrase Jeffrey Lebowski, aka The Dude (or El Dudarino, if you are not into the brevity thing), “I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Grateful Dead, man." Actually, The Dude said the “Eagles" (and I guess I'm obliged to agree with him), but for me the Dead seem to always get under ...

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Article: Live From New York

Ivo Perelman, ESG, Frank London & The Pharcyde

Read "Ivo Perelman, ESG, Frank London & The Pharcyde" reviewed by Martin Longley


The Ivo Perelman Quartet The Stone January 30, 2013 The leader of this quartet is actually its least-known member, outside of the hardcore free jazz zone. This gig arrived towards the conclusion of a fortnight's curation at The Stone by Joe Morris, who played upright bass for Brazilian tenor ...

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Article: Album Review

Sanda Weigl: Gypsy in a Tree

Read "Gypsy in a Tree" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Anyone who has lived the myriad lives of the Diaspora as Sanda Weigl has, is qualified to speak for the generations of pain and joy, torture and triumph of human life that has come to pass for her people, and the Gypsies as well. Fleeing the repressive regime of Romania and falling afoul of the even ...

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Article: Album Review

Sanda: Gypsy in a Tree

Read "Gypsy in a Tree" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Try as they might, the world's greatest instrument makers have yet to create anything that comes close to the beauty, joy or emotional intensity of the human voice. If this sounds like a somewhat contentious statement, then Gypsy In A Tree--a follow-up to Gypsy Killer (Knitting Factory Works, 2002)--should provide sufficient evidence, in the form of ...

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Article: Album Review

Sanda Weigl: Gypsy in a Tree

Read "Gypsy in a Tree" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Romanian singer Sanda Weigl's story is a harrowing one that spans the full length of the Cold War, from pre-Ceausescu Romania to communist East Berlin to West Berlin before arriving most recently in New York City, at a time when many Gotham musicians were investigating Eastern European influences in Western music, making her expertise in Gypsy ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Photonality Jazz Series Publishes 17th Book Procession with Shoko Nagai, Satoshi Takeishi, Jennifer Choi, John Lindberg and Ned Rothenberg from Shoko's Ephemeral Project.

Photonality Jazz Series Publishes 17th Book Procession with Shoko Nagai, Satoshi Takeishi, Jennifer Choi, John Lindberg and Ned Rothenberg from Shoko's Ephemeral Project.

This visual music composition “Procession" was inspired by Shoko Nagai's musical composition with the same title from her “Ephemeral" project. Shoko's musical composition “Procession" came from an image she had of the procession of beautifully dressed men and women, slowly walking down the street of old city in Kyoto, Japan, from the 9th century Heian period. ...

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Take Five With Shoko Nagai

Read "Take Five With Shoko Nagai" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Shoko Nagai: Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai has been evolving as a professional musician for fifteen years. In Boston, she received a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music. In 1999 she moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with musicians such as ...

Album

Vortex

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003


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