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Teodross Avery's 'After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane' (Tompkins Square) Out Now

May 10, 2019

In the beginning there was John Coltrane. Growing up in a family that listened to a vast and global array of music, Teodross Avery experienced an epiphany at 13 when he first heard Trane’s epochal harmonic steeplechase Giant Steps. Taking up the tenor saxophone, he emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most powerful young ...

Article: Album Review

Teodross Avery: After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane

Read "After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
April 21, 2019

All modern saxophonists worth their salt relate to John Coltrane in one way or another. Coltrane pushed boundaries and showed new paths in music and never stopped searching. Fortunately, new generations have been ready to take over and pick up on the lessons Coltrane taught. One of them is saxophonist Dr. Teodross Avery. ...

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The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach

By Sonny Clark

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2017
Track listing: Minor Meeting; Nica; Sonny's Crip; Blues Mambo; Blues Blue; Junka; My Conception; Sonia; Nica (take 2); Sonia (take 3); Minor Meeting (take 10); Junka ( take 1); Nica (take 4); Minor Meeting ( take 9).

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Sonny Clark Trio: The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach

Read "The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 1, 2017

Jazz history tends to favor the great musical innovators whose stylistic leaps have formed the ever-changing vocabulary of jazz: the improvisational wonder of Louis Armstrong, the free flight of Charlie Parker, the chameleon-like transformations of Miles Davis, and the singular piano world of Thelonious Monk. For long a time, Monk, along with Bud Powell, has been ...

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Harvey Mandel: Snake Pit

By Harvey Mandel

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2016
Track listing: Snake Pit; Space Monkeys; NightinGail; Baby Batter; JackHammer; Buckaroo; Before Six; Ode to B.B.

Article: Extended Analysis

Harvey Mandel: Snake Pit

by Doug Collette
November 19, 2016

One of the major proponents of contemporary blues-rock guitar, Harvey Mandel has some impressive credentials nonetheless. Cutting his teeth in the Chicago well-spring of the blues, he collaborated with harpist Charlie Musselwhite, among others in that scene and subsequently became a pivotal member of Canned Heat around the apogee of their career, including their appearance at ...

Song of the Day

Just A Closer Walk With Thee

April 4, 2014

Album: The Soul of Ragtime
By Terry Waldo
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 0
Duration: 03:58

News: Recording

Terry Waldo - "The Soul Of Ragtime" - Out Today!

March 25, 2014

Tompkins Square has released music across many genres: Folk, gospel, jazz, blues, old-timey, British pop, American Primitive, Cajun, Greek, singer/songwriters. But this is the first Ragtime album released by the label, from perhaps the most important living artist in the genre, Terry Waldo. Terry's new album The Soul of Ragtime is the culmination of decades of ...

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Various Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard

By Various Artists

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Work Hard: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man - Clem Garner/Alfred Meng/Earl McCoy; Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic #2) - David McCarn/David McCam; I've Got the Chain Store Blues - Allen Bros; Farmer Is the Man Who Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson; Farmer's Dream - Oscar Ford; When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger - Earl Johnson; Jerry, Go Ile That Car - Harry McClintock/Mac McClintock; Flat Wheel Train Blues, Pt. 1 - Jack Wellman/Red Gay; Flat Wheel Train Blues, Pt. 2 - Jack Wellman/Red Gay; Driving Saw Logs on the Plover - Pierre La Dieu; All Bound Down in Texas - Darby & Tarlton; Poor Boy Long Ways from Home - Buell Kazee; Diamond Joe - Georgia Crackers. CD2: Play Hard: Work Don't Bother Me - Gid Tanner; Soldier's Joy - North Carolina Hawaiians; Fourth of July at the Country Fair - Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers; McDonald's Farm - Warren Caplinger; Barnyard Frolic - Carolina Ramblers String Band; Home Brew Rag - Cherokee Ramblers; Corn-Shucking Party in Georgia; Beer Party - Charlie Wilson and his Hayloft Gang; Charleston Rag - Aiken County String Band; Tennessee Coon Hunt - Whit Gaydon; Too Tight Rag - Hack String Band; Cheat 'Em - Allen Bros; Hide Away - Oscar Ford; Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible - Tennessee Ramblers. CD3: Pray Hard: You've Got to Stop Drinking Shine - Gid Tanner; Climbing the Golden Stairs - Happy Four; Oh Declare His Glory - McDonald Quartette; Easter Day - The Dixon Brothers; I'm S-A-V-E-D - Georgia Yellow Hammers; Way to Glory Land - Corley Family; You Must Be a Lover of the Lord - Fields Ward and the Grayson County Railsplitters; Gambler's Dying Words, The - Grady Moore/Sid Harkreader; I'm on My Way - Kentucky Holiness Singers; Leave It There - Snowball & Sunshine; Where We'll Never Grow Old - Alfred G. Karnes; If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul - Ernest Phipps and the Holiness Singers; When the Moon Drips Away Into the Blood - Taylor Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers; Beyond the Starry Plane - Red Brush Singers; My Christian Friends in Bonds of Love - Elder G.P. Harris.

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Various Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard

by Skip Heller
January 26, 2013

There is always complaint that American contemporary musical life is at turns either too glitzy or overly-intellectualized. Either claim is overly simplistic, neither completely wrong. And in no area is it more true than country music. On one hand, there is the proud stupidity of Toby Keith and Gretchen Wilson. On the other, the self-consciously literate ...