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Article: From the Inside Out

Jazz in Its Present Tents

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 1, 2017

Jazz sets up camp throughout different geographies--and centuries. Bossacucanova The Best of Bossacucanova Six Degrees Records 2016 Few bands have built upon the legacy of their chosen field the way that Bossacucanova has advanced the music of their native Brazil. Their story begins about two ...

Article: Interview

Miles Mosley, contrabbassista per ogni stagione

by Andrea Murgia
May 15, 2017

Bassista, cantante, compositore di colonne sonore: Miles Mosley è tutto questo e molto ancora. Dopo aver studiato con titani del contrabbasso come John Clayton e Ray Brown, Mosley ha cominciato a supportare in tour musicisti del calibro di Lauryn Hill, Jeff Beck, Gnarls Barkley e Mos Def e registrare sui dischi di Jonathan Davis dei Korn ...

News: Music Industry

King Crimson Guitar Legend Trey Gunn's 7d Media Label To Merge With DiN Records

May 14, 2017

Trey Gunn (King Crimson, KTU, Security Project, solo artist) started 7d Media 15 years ago. The label began mainly as a vehicle for his own releases/projects and those of his closest colleagues (Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto etc…) The label has steadily grown and now encompasses a variety of releases connecting both progressive rock (Stick Men, Markus ...

News: Event

King Crimson To Tour North America Summer 2017 In Support Of Forthcoming Live Ep "Heroes"

May 11, 2017

Seminal rock band King Crimson begins their 2017 North American tour with the summer leg including a 17-show run spanning June 11 to July 10. The “Radical Action Tour 2017” will begin at Seattle's Moore Theatre on June 11. The tour will run through cities Saratoga, Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis. King Crimson ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis: The Stone House

by John Kelman
March 4, 2017

At a 2009 ECM @ 40 celebration in Mannheim, Germany that was part of the ongoing Enjoy Jazz Festival, Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava spoke, in a public interview, about how free jazz, back in the day, wasn't really free. There were rules: no time and/or no changes, for example; with memorable melodies not impossible, but not ...

Album

Levin Minnemann Rudess: From the Law Offices of Levin Minnemann Rudess

By Tony Levin

Label: Lazy Bones Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Back to the Machine; Ready, Set, Sue; Riff Splat; What is the Meaning?; Marseille; Good Day Hearsay; Witness; Balloon; When the Gavel Falls; The Verdict; Free Radicals; Magistrate; Shiloh's Cat; The Tort.

Article: Album Review

Dewa Budjana: Zentuary

by John Kelman
December 25, 2016

In retrospect, all paths have truly led to this. Four increasingly impressive recordings for Moonjune Records have brought Dewa Budjana together with a variety of high profile, top-drawer jazz musicians from the American west and east coasts. Each successive album, from 2013's Dawai in Paradise through to 2015's Hasta Karma, have found the Indonesian guitarist raising ...

Article: Extended Analysis

On (and Off) The Road

by John Kelman
November 13, 2016

Sometimes the best music--and some of the best bands--are those that come from the most difficult of births. When King Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp had the idea for a new band after dissolving the last incarnation of the '70s-era Crimson lineups seven years prior, it was a completely new concept and, with the exception of returning ...

Article: Album Review

California Guitar Trio: Komorebi

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by Geno Thackara
October 17, 2016

Things come somewhat full circle for the California Guitar Trio on their fifteenth album Komorebi. Having often experimented with all manner of electronics and effects to weave sound textures, here they drift back towards compositions that use their acoustic guitars pure and unadorned. It was made live in a room with a minimal rig, much the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Radical Action (To Unseat The Hold of Monkey Mind)

by John Kelman
September 10, 2016

Plenty has already been written about King Crimson's surprise reemergence in 2014 at All About Jazz, beginning when the now 47 year-old progressive/art rock band commenced its first tour since 2008 (and its first extensive one since 2003) with a new, expanded lineup featuring a front-line of three drummers and a back-line of two guitarists (one, ...