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Article: Interview

Darius Jones: From Johnny Hodges To Noise Jazz

Read "Darius Jones: From Johnny Hodges To Noise Jazz" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Alto saxophonist Darius Jones--who won most critics' nomination for the best jazz newcomer album of 2009 for Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009)--is a great fan of Johnny Hodges. He says that the lyrical Duke Ellington altoist is his hero, and this is pleasantly noticeable at the beginning of Man'ish Boy. It ...

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Article: Album Review

Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas

Read "Ragged Atlas" reviewed by Mark Corroto


In the last forty years, no one has been about to categorize just what exactly Fred Frith music is. His seminal early work with the British prog-rock band Henry Cow--along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart--developed the idea rock artists could also be accomplished and serious musicians. Later he founded the New York ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Foot Job Band and Tongs: between porno, rock and a jazz place

Read "Foot Job Band and Tongs: between porno, rock and a jazz place" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Back in 1980s and early 1990s in New York, musicians were reinventing jazz and the “downtown scene," as it was called, was focused on the The Knitting Factory club. Artists like saxophonists John Zorn, John Lurie and Thomas Chapin, guitarist Marc Ribot and cellist Tom Cora became famous. While they were schooled in the traditional, their ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Musillami Trio + 3: From Seeds

Read "From Seeds" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo


Connecticut-based Michael Musillami is a guitarist firmly rooted in the modern post-Coltrane jazz tradition but not above applying a rock-ish tone and aggression at times to good effect, as heard on the title track to From Seeds. His early work with the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin is worth seeking out but he really came into his ...

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Article: Profile

Ned Rothenberg

Read "Ned Rothenberg" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Twisting alto and tenor saxophone lines gradually coalesced then dispersed, tacking between consonance and dissonance as Ned Rothenberg and Evan Parker launched their recent duo gig at Issue Project Room. Long circular-breathed patterns were punctuated with overblown tones before the two exchanged almost bluesy lines, complementing and responding in a taut dialogue of fluent masters.

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News: Performance / Tour

Lift Off! Remembering Thomas Chapin - Concerts Mark Decade Since the Passing of Avant Jazz Master

Lift Off! Remembering Thomas Chapin - Concerts Mark Decade Since the Passing of Avant Jazz Master

LIFT OFF! REMEMBERING THOMAS CHAPIN CONCERTS MARK DECADE SINCE THE PASSING OF AVANT JAZZ MASTER New York, NY - Rarely in a musical movement has a player left an indelible mark on those with whom he collaborated and those listeners with whom he enthralled more than the late NYC avant jazz saxist, Thomas Chapin. ...

Album

Ride

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Anima; Pet Scorpion; Night Bird Song; Aeolus; Bad Birdie; Changes Two Tires; Ticket to Ride.

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Video

Music Man

Featuring the music of Thomas Chapin
Duration: 11:59

A short documentary film directed by Terri Castillo-Chapin about Thomas Chapin's relationship to sound and ordinary objects as "instruments." A relaxed Thomas shows his process of utilizing sound in similar fashion that he created his visual collage art. A pre-Trio period when he was exploring Brazilian rhythms. Color, 12 mins., 1990.

Musicians: Thomas Chapin, flute, sax, keyboard, percussion & objects; Saul Rubin, guitar; Thad Wheeler, percussion; Arthur Kell, bass. Film Directed and Edited by Terri Castillo-Chapin.

Related Link: Thomas Chapin: Remembering a Force

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Article: Album Review

Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride

Read "Ride" reviewed by Jeff Stockton


When leukemia claimed Thomas Chapin at the age of forty in 1998, his mixture of the avant garde and the accessible placed him and his rhythm section at the verge of jazz stardom. Already a downtown NYC legend, Chapin was among the first artists to perform at the Knitting Factory and the first to be signed ...

Album

Ride

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: Anima; Pet Scorpion; Night Bird Song; Aeolus; Bad Birdie; Changes Two Tires; Ticket To Ride.


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