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Bare Bones Improvisation: A Challenge Rewarded

Read "Bare Bones Improvisation: A Challenge Rewarded" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Mood, ambiance and atmosphere are the basic building blocks of music making. Taken at its essence, music is made up of these three components. In generating sound--especially experimental, improvised sound--getting to the essence is a major victory for musicians. And, although it may appeal only to the adventurous listener, there is an importance to bare bones ...

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Fred Anderson: Birthday Live 2000 and 21st Century Chase

Read "Fred Anderson: Birthday Live 2000 and 21st Century Chase" reviewed by Jeff Stockton


Fred Anderson Trio Birthday Live 2000 Asian Improv 2009 Fred Anderson 21st Century Chase Delmark 2009 Of all the players who have come through Fred ...

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Bradley Parker-Sparrow: The New World

Read "The New World" reviewed by Mark Corroto


It's possible that this improvised session was months in the making, as emails and telephone calls were made and returned to discuss the theme of pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow's The New World. But, then again with improvisers of this quality this concept album might just as remarkably been laid down with a with a few nods, winks, ...

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Globe Unity: Japan

Read "Globe Unity: Japan" reviewed by Tom Greenland


Akira SakataFriendly PantsColumbia-Family Vineyard2009 Itaru OkiPhantom NoteRecord Label #2Year The Miyumi ProjectLive in PolandSouthport2009 Japanese culture has historically championed jazz and, not ...

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Fred Anderson Quartet: Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume III

Read "Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume III" reviewed by Jeff Stockton


Fred Anderson's sound on tenor can be heard in his stance. With his horn hung on a harness that looks like something a moving man would wear as he prepares to hoist a TV, Anderson bends his knees and hunches over as if muscle more than breath is needed to lift the notes into the air. ...

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Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project: East Meets the Rest, Friday 9 May

Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project:  East Meets the Rest, Friday 9 May

Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2008 Traffic Series Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project: East Meets the Rest Friday, May 9, 2008 7:30 p.m., $40 Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre 1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60614 312-335-1650 steppenwolf.org In conjunction with the May 9th Steppenwolf performance, Southport Records will ...

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A Symphony Of Cities

Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 2002

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Basser Live

Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 2000

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The Miyumi Project

Label: Southport Records
Released: 2000

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Tatsu Aoki: The Miyumi Project

Read "The Miyumi Project" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Of the wholly American art forms-jazz, cowboy movies, and fast food-jazz seems to have generated the most controversy as to its origins. Many believe jazz was given to the pilgrims by native Americans that first Thanksgiving during the halftime show. I hold to the theory that jazz came from New Orleans at the confluence of European, ...


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