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Article: Album Review

Mia Dyberg: Ticket!

Read "Ticket!" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Raised in Sweden and Denmark, alto saxophonist Mia Dyberg has made a name for herself on Berlin's improvised music scene, notably in the duos Sonic Horizons, with cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, and with Italian turntable musician Roberta Wjm Andreucci in Morph! Ticket! is Dyberg's second trio outing to take inspiration from beat poet William S. Burroughs, following ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

One Day in Brazil, 50 Years in Germany

Read "One Day in Brazil, 50 Years in Germany" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Tony Adamo Was Out Jazz Zone Mad Ropeadope 2018 Some African cultures preserved their history not by the written but by the spoken word, kept by oral cultural historians known as griots. On Was Out Jazz Zone Mad, vocalist Tony Adamo aspires to serve in this same role, ...

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Sun Ra Plays Gershwin

Label: Enterplanetary Koncepts
Released: 2018
Track listing: Rhapsody In Blue; S’Wonderful; Nice Work If You Can Get It; But Not For Me; The Man I Love; Summertime; It Ain’t Necessarily So; S’Wonderful; A Foggy Day; I Loves You Porgy.

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Exotica

Label: Modern Harmonic
Released: 2018
Track listing: Kingdom Of Thunder; Spaces Mates; Star Bright; The Nile Part 1; Eve; Tiny Pyramids; The Lady With the Golden Stockings; Paradise; New Horizons; Portrait Of The Living Sky; India; Ancient Aiethiopia; Planet Earth; April In Paris; Island In The Sun; Africa; Friendly Galaxy; Interstellar Low Ways; The Conversion Of J.P.; Cha-Cha In Outer Space; Brazilian Sun; Lights On A Satellite; Somewhere In Space; Spontaneous Simplicity; Overtones Of China.

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God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be

Label: Cosmic Myth
Released: 2018
Track listing: Days of Happiness; Magic City Blues; Tenderness; Blithe Spirit Dance; God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be.

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Of Abstract Dreams

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Island in the Sun; New Dawn; I’m Gonna Unmask the Batman; I’ll Wait for You.

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Article: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

Francesco Martinelli: European Jazz - Tales of Etruscan Vases, Arias And Resistance

Read "Francesco Martinelli: European Jazz - Tales of Etruscan Vases, Arias And Resistance" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Few have attempted to tackle the history of European jazz in any meaningful way. That's hardly surprising given the size of the task. How do you address the jazz history of over forty countries in a succinct and logical manner? How do you manage to throw light on all the major personalities at the ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jerome Wilson's Best Releases Of 2018

Read "Jerome Wilson's Best Releases Of 2018" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


It may be unwieldy to keep a large jazz ensemble together for economic reasons but this year was still full of outstanding big band recordings, whether done through commissions, arrangers working with established orchestras or even actual working ensembles. Several of the releases on my list are examples of that. Also this year had the usual ...

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Article: Album Review

Billie Davies Trio: Perspectives II

Read "Perspectives II" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


The spiritual jazz tradition, as exemplified by John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, has been having a resurgence over the past few years in places like Los Angeles and Great Britain. Now here is evidence that some musicians in New Orleans are going down that path as well. Billie Davies is a drummer from Belgium ...

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Article: Album Review

Vasil Hadzimanov Band: Lines in Sand

Read "Lines in Sand" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Among work with half a dozen musical ensembles and a line in TV/film scoring, one has to wonder when Vasil Hadzimanov has time to sleep, let alone lead his own group. Nonetheless he's managed seven albums with this wildly ambitious electric fusion outfit as well. If the title and cover of Lines in Sand suggest something ...


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