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Article: The Blue Note Portal

Reaper on the Bus

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by Blue Note Portal

The gig in D.C. had been a burner--two encores, standing ovation--but now the lights were low, the coffee was cold, with the five of them sprawled in the back lounge like old friends who'd never left the road. The year 2031 was off to a good start as their bus droned south on I-95, ...

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Article: Album Review

Roberto Di Gioia: Web Web - Kover Kover

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by Andy Crowther

Web Web are a “German supergroup" releasing mostly their own material on the Munich-based Compost Records. All are heavily influenced by the spiritual sounds of the legendary Black Jazz and Strata East labels, the grooves of ethio-jazz, and the more experimental kraut-rock leanings of bands like Embryo. But their 2025 album Plexus Plexus tellingly included a ...

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Article: Album Review

The Brighton Beat: Victory At Last

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by Mike Jurkovic

For the musically uninitiated and socially marooned, there is a perpetual sense of danceable immediacy to the big, fun Brighton Beat sound. The exact reason for that is that, at any moment--no, make that every moment--there is the potential to shake-your-money-maker around the moon and back again. Measure by measure by measure, the dance floor is ...

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Article: Play This!

Angelique Kidjo: Crosseyed and Painless

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by Geno Thackara

How to tackle a high-energy classic packed with layers of overlapping rhythms? Perhaps by giving it some unexpected breathing space. Angelique Kidjo's Afro-chant treatment (much like the Talking Heads whole-album cover from which it comes) is just as intense as the source, but interestingly smolders more than burns, in a way rather more moody and bewitching. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Exposures

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by John Kelman

Between the impact of the COVID pandemic since 2020, and in the eight year-long tenure of King Crimson's final lineup, which toured between 2014 and 2021, there's been a lot revealed about its sole remaining founding member, guitarist/keyboardist Robert Fripp. Since 2012, the more than five-decade history of King Crimson, live and in the ...

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Article: Album Review

Muster: Find A City To Live In

Read "Find A City To Live In" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Muster consists of electric guitarist James O'Sullivan from South London and electronicist Dan Powell from Brighton, some fifty miles away. This duo was formed accidentally in November 2016, when Powell was supposed to be playing in another duo as part of a Catford Constitutional improv night; the other member couldn't make it, so Powell and O'Sullivan ...

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Article: Album Review

SPAZA: SPAZA

Read "SPAZA" reviewed by Patrick Burnette

by Patrick Burnette

SPAZA, the debut from an improvisational collective based in Johannesburg, South Africa, may be the most surprising and gratifying album you hear this year by a group you've never heard of before. (The collective itself happens to be named—you guessed it--SPAZA.) The press materials note that the music was “completely improvised" and that SPAZA is part ...

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Article: Live Review

Bessie Smith Empress of the Blues Tribute at The Cabot

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by Doug Hall

Bessie-Empress of the Blues Tribute The Cabot Beverly, MA December 4, 2018 In a wonderful coincidence of timing, The Cabot, in Beverly, Ma. celebrated and honored the great and legendary blues vocalist icon, The Empress of the Blues--Bessie Smith -at the very same time the beautiful newly renovated 1920's theater venue ...

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Article: Live Review

Sligo Jazz Project 2018: Days 3-4

Read "Sligo Jazz Project 2018: Days 3-4" reviewed by James Fleming

by James Fleming

Days 1-2 | Days 3-4 Sligo Jazz Project Various Venues Sligo, Ireland July 24-29, 2018 July 26, 2018When the wind died down the day turned humid and heavy. Clouds hung low in the sky, grey and oppressive. And as Sligo's people sipped their coffees and settled down at their ...

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Article: Film Review

The US Festival 1982: The US Generation

Read "The US Festival 1982: The US Generation" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Various Artists The US Festival 1982 MVD Entertainment Group 2018 By title alone, The US Festival of 1982 might seem light years removed from the abiding fascination with festivals now pervading our culture. But if director Glenn Aveni's ninety-minutes plus documentary proves anything, it's that this event founded and sponsored ...


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