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Article: Live Review

Steven Wilson: Montreal, Canada, November 15, 2011

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by John Kelman

Steven WilsonCorona TheatreMontreal, Canada November 15, 2011 For many of the mid-Baby Boomer era, the gateway drug to jazz was progressive rock. That's not to suggest that the more structured and, some might say, bombastic environs of late 1960s/early 1970s groups like Yes or Emerson, Lake and Palmer had a whole ...

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Article: Album Review

Steven Wilson: Grace for Drowning

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by John Kelman

Not that he wasn't already busy when, amidst being a driving force behind No-Man, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck and Porcupine Tree, singer/multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson released his first proper solo recording, Insurgentes (Kscope, 2009), but the past two years have been even more hectic. His outstanding work bringing the King Crimson catalogue into the 21st century with revealing ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation

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by Mark Redlefsen

On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, “Moon In June," ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Mama Africa

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by Chris M. Slawecki

If you wanted to travel to--oh, let's just say--Tanzania and then from Tanzania to India, then to Puerto Rico, to England, then Spain, to Peru, then to South Africa, to personally experience their musical varieties both garden and exotic, you could do it by cashing in, with rounding, about 28,690 frequent flier miles. Or ...

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Article: Album Review

Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures

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by Chris M. Slawecki

Many have found elements of jazz in the music of European progressive rock artists such as Gong, Can, King Crimson and even, to a certain improvisational extent, Yes. Soft Machine Legacy continues this...umm, legacy with an amoeba-like lineup (mostly) from alumni of the original progressive instrumental group Soft Machine: guitarist John Etheridge, bassist Roy Babbington and ...

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Article: Album Review

Theo Travis: All I Know: An Anthology

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by John Kelman

He's been on the scene for twenty years, but it's only been in the past few that Theo Travis has risen to prominence beyond the expanding group of musicians who call him up when they need a saxophonist/flautist with jazz chops but a rock sensibility--and an appreciation of the organic marriage of technology with acoustic instruments ...

Article: Album Review

Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Con la recente dipartita di Hugh Hopper il gruppo Soft Machine Legacy ha perso il suo ultimo legame diretto con la formazione classica dei Soft Machine che immancabilmente siamo portati ad associare all'album Third, uno dei capolavori della musica giovane di ogni tempo. A questo punto il legame più solido rimane quello del batterista John Marshall ...

Article: Album Review

Goldbug: The Seven Dreams

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Il quartetto Goldbug, guidato dal chitarrista Tim Motzer, è una sorta di supergruppo che mette assieme il batterista del trio di Adrian Belew, il saxofonista dei Soft Machine Legacy e il bassista dei Base3 per esplorare territori misteriosi pieni di echi elettronici e organici che si intersecano vicendevolmente senza soluzione di continuità. Le sette composizioni sono ...

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Live at Coventry Cathedral

By Theo Travis

Label: Panegyric Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Apparent Chaos of Stone; Field of Green; The Unquestioned Answer ; Blue Calm; Duet for the End of Time; The Offering; Angels in the Roof; Moonchild; Lamentation.

Album

All I Know

By Theo Travis

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2010


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