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The Thing: Bag It!

Read "Bag It!" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


One of the most appealing facets of The Thing-- saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--is the visceral experience of seeing them play live. Huddled closely on stage, wearing matching Ruby's BBQ of Austin t-shirts, dripping with sweat and manhandling their instruments, the trio is one of the modern wonders of avant-garde ...

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Action Jazz

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sounds Like A Sandwich; Chisma; Broken Shadows; Ride The Sky; Better Living; Danny's Dream; The Nut/The Light; ...Through BBQ; Strayhorn.

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The Thing: Action Jazz

Read "Action Jazz" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Scandinavian trio known as The Thing--Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and two Norwegians, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--seems to be rewriting the definition of its brand of brutal jazz. After being compared to Peter Brötzmann's early trios, being called a power jazz trio, and being compared to garage rock, The Thing has settled ...

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The Thing: Live At Blå / Mats Gustafsson: Catapult

Read "The Thing: Live At Blå / Mats Gustafsson: Catapult" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


Last summer, this reviewer was first exposed to the Scandinavian group The Thing in the best possible way; he was run over by them. The trio, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love (both Norwegian), played a brutal set at the Oslo club Blå as part of that city's Jazz Festival. ...

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Garage

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2004
Track listing: Art Star (Yeah Yeah Yeahs); Aluminium (The White Stripes); Haunted (Norman Howard); Eine Kleine Marschmusik (Peter Br

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The Thing: Garage

Read "Garage" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


This is a disc you know you are going to love from the first sound of the pounding, kick-ass drums. Garage is the third release by The Thing (a trio named after Don Cherry's seminal piece “The Thing"), following two hard-to-find releases on Swedish reed master Mats Gustafsson's now defunct Crazy Wisdom label ( The Thing ...

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The Thing

Label: Hubro
Released: 2001

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The Thing

Label: IRI
Released: 1979

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The Thing

Label: Abracadabra Music
Released: 1967

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The Thing

Label: Pacific Jazz
Released: 1965
Track listing: The Thing; Sunset In Mountains; While The City Sleeps; White Cobra; New Time Shuffle; Para Mi Espoza; Soul Kosher;


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