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Cyro Baptista: Love the Donkey
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
A panoply of percussion erupts from Love the Donkey as Cyro Baptista and his merry troupe of percussionists and special guests unleash fourteen tracks of manic energy and irrepressible fun. It serves as an effective antidote to overly cerebral and self-consciously serious music. Throughout his prolific career, Baptista has voraciously performed most imaginable ...
Ned Rothenberg: Solo Works - The Lumina Recordings
by Alex T.
Despite the landmark work of Sonny Rollins, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker and Steve Lacy, solo saxophone performance represents an exception rather than the norm in jazz and improvisation. Because of the instrumental limitations, solo reed players need to develop complex multiphonic techniques or make use of electronic overdubbing in order to go beyond mere single-note playing. ...
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel
by AAJ Italy Staff
E così, come talvolta accade, un gesto casuale, un capitolo, magari un'impressione fallace - con il tragico senno di poi la si scorge - diventano qualcosa di definitivo, come quando si ripensa alle ultime parole di una persona che abbiamo amato e che magari ci ha lasciati, parole che nel flusso di una vita potevano scivolare ...
Anthony Coleman: Shmutsige Magnaten: Coleman Plays Gebirtig
by Kurt Gottschalk
Mordechai Gebirtig was, as Anthony Coleman explained at a performance of the composer's work at The Stone in February, a writer of Polish folk songs evoking the hardships of Jewish life in the '30s and '40s. More a poet than a musician, Gebirtig would often sing or hum melodies to others to score. Coleman has given ...
Joseph Holbrooke Trio: The Moat Recordings
by Alex T.
The Moat Recordings fills in a gap in the story of free improvised music. Bassist Gavin Bryars, drummer Tony Oxley and guitarist Derek Bailey (who passed away in December 2005) met in Sheffield, England in the mid-'60s and started out stretching the limits of modal jazz toward freer forms of musical expression, increasingly moving away from ...
Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing
by Donald Elfman
Bobby Previte's musical evolution has been most fascinating. The records he's made for a variety of labels show an astonishing scope but, amazingly, there has never really been a disconnect, even now playing electronic" drums or instrumental rock music. Color and expression have always been paramount in Previte's output and his palette has always been directed ...
Paul Shapiro: It's in the Twilight
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Day's slide into night, the work week's conclusion, and prayers of the Jewish Shabbat inspired saxophonist Paul Shapiro's compositions and arrangements for It's in the Twilight. It is celebratory music, imbued with optimism for change arising at these temporal transformations, a musical salve for these troubled times. Inviting melodic heads develop from Shapiro, combining with fellow ...
Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing
by Troy Collins
It is often said that in youth one is more idealistic and liberal, and with age comes pragmatism and social conservatism. Well, someone ought to tell Bobby Previte, because it seems he missed the memo. A downtown scene luminary, composer and percussionist extraordinaire, Previte pushes ever further a field with The Coalition of the Willing. When ...
Rashanim: Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 5: Masada Rock
by Renato Wardle
John Zorn's groundbreaking Masada outfits have been successfully expanding their own unique realm of klezmer-infused jazz and improvisational music for more than ten years. To celebrate, Zorn's own Tzadik label has released five tenth anniversary CDs featuring an array of musical cohorts performing their own arrangements of selections from his Masada songbook. Masada Rock documents Rashanim, ...
Paul Shapiro: It's In The Twilight
by Nic Jones
If this is an example of radical Jewish culture, as Tzadik bills it, then a whole lot of Gentiles would be doing themselves an enormous favour if they tapped into it. Listeners of all cultures from around the world are familiar with the idea of the keeper," meaning an item that will find a permanent home ...


