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Article: Liner Notes

Christy Doran: in The Corner Of The Eye

Read "Christy Doran: in The Corner Of The Eye" reviewed by Ian Patterson


For forty years, Irish-born, Lucerne-based guitarist Christy Doran has recorded prolifically for numerous labels. Inevitably perhaps, many of his earlier works are out of print, so it's cause for celebration that this release brings together the very best of Phoenix (hat Art, 1990) and What a Band (hat Art, 1992), two long-neglected yet essential Doran recordings. ...

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Outward Bound to Out to Lunch Revisited

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: G.W.; Green Dolphin Street; Les; 246: Glad to Be Unhappy; Miss Toni; Hat and Beard; Something Sweet, Something Tender; Gazzelloni: Out to Lunch; Straight Up and Down.

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The Electric Years Box Set

Label: Columbia Records / VMP Anthology
Released: 2023

Article: Album Review

Andrew Hill: Point of Departure to Compulsion!!!!! Revisited

Read "Point of Departure to Compulsion!!!!! Revisited" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Point of Departure di Andrew Hill, inciso nel marzo 1964 e pubblicato dalla Blue Note una manciata di mesi dopo, è uno degli album di culto di quello che viene definito appunto Blue Note Style, ciò che la gloriosa etichetta fondata un quarto di secolo prima da Alfred Lion e Francis Wolff seppe brillantemente “illustrare" in ...

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Article: Album Review

Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing

Read "A Lovesome Thing" reviewed by Dave Linn


This year the jazz gods have bestowed an early Christmas present upon us. A Lovesome Thing (truncated from the Billy Strayhorn composition which opens the album), is a seven-song, fifty-three-minute album which documents a remarkable live duo performance from Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel. It will likely be found on many Top Ten lists this year. ...

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Article: Album Review

Trunino Lowe: The Vision

Read "The Vision" reviewed by Paul Rauch


You can try and look away. You can try to see the musician as a single entity that grew in the shadow of his native city's historic lineage. “Assess the young man's music on its own merits, without drawing comps to the past," would be the objective. But this was the trumpet, and the young man ...

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Article: Album Review

Transatlantic Five: Transitions

Read "Transitions" reviewed by Mark Corroto


There is an expression in meditation for when an individual is concentrating on their breath, “it's a simple practice, but not easy." A similar statement might be made about Transitions by the Transatlantic Five. The music is not simple, but it is easy. Easy, at least for this quintet. The American duo of Ken ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sam Rivers Centennial + New John Zorn Works

Read "Sam Rivers Centennial + New John Zorn Works" reviewed by David Brown


For this week's show, we celebrate the centennial of the birth of composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers; along the way we'll here a short vocal set and some recent releases from John Zorn. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club--Complete (Columbia) 01:50 Helen Merrill, Clifford Brown “Hush Now Don't Explain" ...

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Article: Book Review

John McLaughlin: From Miles and Mahavishnu to The 4th Dimension

Read "John McLaughlin: From Miles and Mahavishnu to The 4th Dimension" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz


John McLaughlin: From Miles and Mahavishnu to The 4th Dimension Matt Phillips 287 Pages ISBN: # 978-1-5381-7094-6 Rowman and Littlefield 2023 In fall 2023 John McLaughlin led a new edition of his band Shakti on a world tour. Reviews and fan videos caught the eighty- one-year-old McLaughlin playing with ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

'70s to the '80s with Return To Forever, Dixie Dregs, Brecker Brothers and Miles Davis

Read "'70s to the '80s with Return To Forever, Dixie Dregs, Brecker Brothers and Miles Davis" reviewed by Len Davis


Music from the '70s to the '80s from Return To Forever, Dixie Dregs and Bill Bruford. Brecker Brothers, Tony Williams, Miles Davis and The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Playlist Return To Forever “Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant" from Romantic Warrior (Columbia) 00:00 Dixie Dregs “I'm Freaking Out" from Dregs Of The Earth (Arista) 07:49 ...


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