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Article: Album Review

Endangered Blood: Work Your Magic

Read "Work Your Magic" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Work Your Magic is the sophomore follow-up to Endangered Blood's self-titled 2011 Skirl Records debut. The acoustic quartet features an all-star lineup, with Human Feel's Chris Speed and Jim Black joined by fellow Skirl label mates Oscar Noriega and Trevor Dunn. First named The Benefit Band, the group was initially formed in 2008 to help Human ...

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Article: Live Review

Moers Festival: Moers, Germany, May 17-20, 2013

Read "Moers Festival: Moers, Germany, May 17-20, 2013" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

Moers Festival 2013Moers, GermanyMay 17-19, 2013The internationally renowned Moers Festival again arrived at a turning point, with its 42nd edition. It was the last edition with the famous blue marquee in the vast Castle-park of the city of Moers. Next year, the festival will continue in a reconstructed solid hall, an old covered ...

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Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

Read "Art Strike!" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...

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Article: Album Review

Ches Smith and These Arches: Hammered

Read "Hammered" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Four progressive-jazz and improvising luminaries lend their expertise for New York City-based drummer Ches Smith's foray into a multi-purposed set, exploring and splitting the frontiers of avant-garde jazz, rock and other genres into asymmetrical components. Thus far, the artist has been in the thick of things, amassing an impressive discography, performing and recording with notables such ...

News: Recording

All-stars Unite To Form Potent Improv Group Slobber Pup; Rare Noise Debut Black Aces Set For June Release

All-stars Unite To Form Potent Improv Group Slobber Pup; Rare Noise Debut Black Aces Set For June Release

AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE JUNE 5TH, 2013 AND THROUGH RARE NOISE RECORDS ON CD, VINYL AND HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD JAMIE SAFT Organ, Keys JOE MORRIS Electric Guitar TREVOR DUNN Electric Bass BALAZS PANDI Drums ABOUT THE LABEL - Rare Noise Records was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, ...

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Many avant-garde composers, leaders or conductors employ various mechanisms to instruct the band for a specific composition. Here, longtime New York City alternative composer, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring integrates an all-star lineup for pieces inspired by a random series of numbers, based on shortwave radio stations. Hasslebring iterates that these pieces are hypothetically decoded and provide cryptic ...

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Article: Album Review

Kris Davis: Capricorn Climber

Read "Capricorn Climber" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Relocating from her native Canada to New York City, pianist Kris Davis has infused her imposing talents into New York City's unconventional, downtown-like scene. She once again aligns her compositional and improvisation expertise with like-minded artists, who frequently transition the jazz idiom into a boundless vista. Hence, the album projects a topsy-turvy and rather oscillating aura, ...

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Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Daniel Lehner

Read "Meet Daniel Lehner" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

I currently live in: New York, NYI joined All About Jazz in: 2010What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I actually submitted my first review, which was the Undead Jazz Festival 2010, to the AAJ message boards. I saw they had a section for concert reviews so I decided ...

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and his band, the wonderfully named New Mellow Edwards, that takes its inspiration from these mysterious transmitters.The tune titles are rather enigmatic, but ...

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Article: Album Review

Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up: The Air is Different

Read "The Air is Different" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Drummer Tomas Fujiwara inhabits the fertile Brooklyn scene alongside guitarist Mary Halvorson, a frequent collaborator who is part of his band, The Hook Up; alongside cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, both are also featured on collective The Thirteenth Assembly's outstanding Station Direct (Important, 2011). So it's not surprising that similarly smart multifaceted compositions, delivered through tight but ...


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