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El-P: High Water (Mark)

Read "High Water (Mark)" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Thirsty Ear’s Blue Series continues to break new ground with its latest jazz/DJ fusion project, High Water (Mark). This record was released under the DJ/producer’s name, El-P, but the musicians manipulated are the Blue Series All Stars, including series curator Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass, Roy Campbell, Jr. on trumpet, Daniel Carter on ...

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Craig Taborn: Junk Magic

Read "Junk Magic" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Pianist Craig Taborn doesn't like to make his music too easy to appreciate, an attitude that seems to have only grown in importance. But don't confuse that with the all-too-common desire to be difficult, which tends to manifest itself in out jazz settings, perhaps as an effort to emphasize that such music is art and not ...

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Craig Taborn: Junk Magic

Read "Junk Magic" reviewed by John Kelman


Following his 2001 recording Light Made Lighter , keyboardist Craig Taborn returns with Junk Magic, a new recording that places him squarely in the 21st century, maybe even the 22nd. With a combination of sounds that incorporates techno, laptop electronics, shifting drum programming, ambient music and free jazz, Taborn creates a sound that is difficult to ...

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Craig Taborn: Junk Magic

Read "Junk Magic" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Craig Taborn inhabits the territories in between the gestures we recognize as music. His sources are revealed to be “found sound" and the psychology of loops. As fans of the innovative '70s band Weather Report know, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul’s genius was the sounds they created in between the hooks of their popular music.

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The Blue Series Continuum: Sorceror Sessions

Read "Sorceror Sessions" reviewed by Rex  Butters


On Sorcerer Sessions, longtime fans of Matthew Shipp will recognize the dense, jagged boulder chords and conceptions that defined his musical world prior to his temporary “retirement” at 38. His music often featured thick dark dramatic playing and compositions, a main course that became a seasoning on Shipp’s recent Thirsty Ear collaborations. Now the same Shipp ...

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Sorceror Sessions

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Pulsar; Keystroke; Lightforms; Urban Shadows; x6; Fixed Point; Invisible Steps; Particle; Reformation; Modulate; Last Chamber; Mist

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The Sublime and...

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Van Gundy's Retreat (Berne) - 10:43 2. The Shell Game (Berne) - 23:59 3. Mrs. Subliminal/Clownfinger (Berne) - 30:18 4. Smallfry (Berne/Taborn) - 6:17 5. Jalape

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Sorcerer Sessions

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Pulsar; Keystroke; Lightforms; Urban Shadows; x6; Fixed Point; Invisible Steps; Particle; Reformation; Modulate; Last Chamber; Mist.

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Nothing Stays The Same

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Hello (Intro) 2. A Day in the Life 3. Nothing Stays The Same 4. Thirsty Thrills 5. Lessons Learned 6. A Night In Savannah 7. Out Of The Blue 8. Shipp Solo (Interlude) 9. Paint by Number 10. Shaken 11. I Spy 12. Maybe Just One (Interlude) 13. A-Plus 14. Medley

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Scrapbook

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Scrapbook; Sunday Morning Church; Singing Spirits; Dust On A White Shirt; Urban; Holiday For Flowers.


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