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Sven-Ake Johansson: Die Harke und der Spaten

Read "Die Harke und der Spaten" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 26, 2012

Part performance piece, part free improvisation, Die Harke und der Spaten ("The Rake and the Spade") is a musical stage play composed by Swedish jazz legend Sven-Åke Johansson. This recording, made in Malmö, Sweden in 1998, features a Who's Who of European improvisers and proponents of free jazz--a European free jazz that distinguishes itself from American ...

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Je Suis!: Mistluren

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by Mark Corroto
February 13, 2012

In 1962 free jazz pioneer Albert Ayler moved to Sweden. Like Jesus Christ's 40 days in the desert, he came home to the United States after being tempted by the devil, and led a revolution in free jazz. His Swedish temptation, perhaps it was a viral contagion, has survived these past 50 years, resurfacing in the ...

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Corpulent: Wolfwalk

Read "Wolfwalk" reviewed by Ollie Bivens

by Ollie Bivens
January 26, 2006

Although jazz comprises no more than 4% of CD sales nationally, there exists a cornucopia of good to excellent jazz musicians--female vocalists, pianists, and saxophonists especially. You can put 44-year-old Baltimore native Gary Thomas in the “excellent" column. Having played with trumpeters Miles Davis and Wallace Roney, Thomas is currently the Director of Jazz Studies at ...

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Wolfwalk

By Corpulent

Label: Umlaut Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Gryphus Medley; Slow Bluuesss; Who

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Wolfwalk

By Devin Gray

Label: Umlaut Records
Released: 2005

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Corpulent: Wolfwalk

Read "Wolfwalk" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 16, 2005

Nobody asks you to take part in a revolution or overturn the status quo. I guess you just believe things should be different (maybe better?) and you jump in. Sometimes to your detriment, sometimes to glory. I'm not talking about the world trade talks, I speak of jazz revolutions, from swing to bebop, the “new thing," ...