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William Parker Quartet: Raining on the Moon

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by AAJ Staff
May 20, 2002

Following on the heels of his spectacular 2001 recording O'Neal's Porch, bassist William Parker has assembled the same quartet for a more roots-oriented session featuring vocalist Leena Conquest. Raining on the Moon draws upon these musicians' keen ability to listen and respond, and it aims successfully for a more organic sound. The sparkling intensity ...

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Guillermo E. Brown: Soul At The Hands Of The Machine

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by AAJ Staff
April 19, 2002

In every sense a collage, Guillermo E. Brown's debut as a leader spans an insane variety of genres and manages to stitch them together into a seamless whole. At the root, of course, is the beat. Brown's drumming rolls through funk, jazz, hip-hop, and Latin rhythms with ease, and the addition of electronic beats and textures ...

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Roy Campbell Quartet: It's Krunch Time

by Bernie Koenig
April 18, 2002

Roy Campbell is one of the top trumpet players around today. Khan Jamal is currently my favourite vibes player--and I say this as a vibraphonist. Until I heard Jamal--whose playing goes back to the Douglas Loft Sessions--my favourite vibraphonist was Walt Dickerson. Jamal can play out but he can really cook as well. Wilber Morris is ...

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Matthew Shipp: Nu Bop

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2002

First off, let’s silence the cries of ‘heretic’ and ‘sell-out.’ Sure Matthew Shipp’s latest disc aligns itself with DJ and club culture, but this is no compromise to smooth-fusion. We all know Matthew Shipp walks different streets than most musicians. His music is, and has always been, about the exploration of free principles at the crossroads ...

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Matthew Shipp: Nu Bop

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2002

Three decades ago, Herbie Hancock revolutionized the role of the piano by melding it with a textured funk groove. The popular result, Headhunters, opened a whole generation's worth of ears to the accessible new sound. And it exemplified a rule that jazz players everywhere have taken to heart: context is everything. Matthew Shipp takes Hancock's lead ...

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New Orbit

By Matthew Shipp

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: New Orbit; Paradox X; Orbit 2; Chi; Orbit 3; U Feature; Syntax; Maze Hint; Paradox Y; Orbit 4.

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The Shell Game

By Tim Berne

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Hard Cell (for Tom); Twisted/Straight Jacket; Heavy Mental (for Wayne Krantz); Thin Ice.

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Light Made Lighter

By Craig Taborn

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: bodies we came out of (part 1); st. ride; I cover the waterfront; crocodile; light made lighter; whisky warm; morning creatures; st. rangelhold; american landscape; light made lighter (piano); bodies we came out of (part 2).

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Matthew Shipp's New Orbit

By Matthew Shipp

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: New Orbit; Paradox X; Orbit 2; Chi; Orbit 3; U Feature; Syntax; Maze Hint; Paradox Y; Orbit 4.

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Altered and Proud: The Short-Staffed Remix

By Ruby

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Beefheart (Dot Allison Remix); Lilypad (Take Me to the Hospital I Am Not A Fucking Frog Remix) by Kid 606; Lamplight (Bench and Doufus Parrrtay Mix1 by Bench); Queen of Denial (Captain Audio Remix); Waterside (Deep In The Void Mix by Aksum); Grace (Space Remix by Schneider TM); Beefheart (Wauvenfold Remix); Sweet is (Loop Of The Fruit Remix by Console); Waterside (Scotty Remix); Lilypad (Max Tundra Remix); Grace (Her Space Holiday Remix).