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Article: Album Review

Max Johnson Quartet: The Prisoner

Read "The Prisoner" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Double bassist Max Johnson's new suite The Prisoner is inspired by the futuristic British cult TV series from the end of the sixties by the same name. This series was a source of inspiration for many artists, among them The Clash, Iron Maiden, and avant-garde sound artist David Shea. New York-based Johnson assembled a quartet of ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Questo splendido lavoro vede due protagonisti dell'avanguardia attuale (il pianista Matthew Shipp e il batterista Jeff Cosgrove) in libero confronto collettivo assieme al contrabbassista William Parker, concreta connessione con le rivoluzioni musicali degli anni sessanta. In particolare due eminenti figure di quella stagione si pongono come ideali riferenti per questa musica e sono i ...

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News: Technology

New Product For Musician Enhances Learning

New Product For Musician Enhances Learning

Video Surgeon is the ultimate teaching and learning tool for musicians who use video. It can transform ordinary video footage into a valuable learning tool, thereby speeding your learning. Video Surgeon is a form of video analysis software. It enables users to perform video slow motion, zooming, and looping - and it can do ALL of ...

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News: Recording

Jazz Singer Kathy Sanborn Goes Latin With New Album Fantasía, Releasing June 3rd

Jazz Singer Kathy Sanborn Goes Latin With New Album Fantasía, Releasing June 3rd

Internationally renowned singer and composer Kathy Sanborn releases her new Latin jazz album, Fantasía, June 3, 2014, available through Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, and other fine retailers. Packed with songs that showcase Sanborn’s trademark velvet voice and sultry style, Fantasía spotlights the many moods of Latin Jazz, from upbeat, bouncy tunes to romantic ballads. From ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Mayall: A Special Life

Read "John Mayall: A Special Life" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Redoubtable and self-motivated as ever Just shy of his eightieth birthday, John Mayall recorded an album with his current band late in 2013 that suggests in no uncertain terms he remains as potent a blues musician as the members of his group merely half his age. He titled A Special Life with the same knowing understatement ...

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Article: Album Review

Howard University Jazz Ensemble 2013: A Tribute to Donald Byrd

Read "A Tribute to Donald Byrd" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

When Fred Irby III took the reins as director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble in 1975, one of his earliest and most pivotal decisions was to usher the ensemble into a recording studio once each year to produce an album designed to offer a musical vignette of its proficiency at that point in time. From ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 10 Thelma, Los Angeles CA 12/12/1969

Read "Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 10 Thelma, Los Angeles CA 12/12/1969" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

One of the great virtues (and there are many) of the Grateful Dead's archiving projects is that research regularly unearths 'lost' recordings about which little or nothing may be known but that, when brought to the light of day, fill in crucial links in this iconic group's history that further illuminate their evolution. Dave's ...

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Article: Album Review

Marko Djordjevic & Sveti: Something Beautiful

Read "Something Beautiful" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland

Drop the “needle" down anywhere on Something Beautiful and you're likely to find ... something beautiful. There's some hidden spirit that carries this music along from track to track as drummer/composer Marko Djordjevic takes his merry band of four (when it's not a trio) through 12 hearty originals, all of them Djordjevic's. After listening ...

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Article: Interview

On the Bus with Ronan Harris: Classical to Futurepop and Everything in Between

Read "On the Bus with Ronan Harris: Classical to Futurepop and Everything in Between" reviewed by Christine Connallon

by Christine Connallon

The tour bus that ferries about and serves as home base for a band of internationally known musicians is surprisingly pristine and neat. The air conditioning is on full blast giving the space a delightful chill against the late spring humidity. Only a lone bottle of sriracha sauce sits on the kitchen counter, waiting for a ...

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Article: Album Review

Kidd Jordan & Hamid Drake: A Night In November - Live in New Orleans

Read "A Night In November - Live in New Orleans" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Hard to believe, but A Night In November--Live in New Orleans is the first drums / saxophone duet recording by legendary New Orleans free jazz saxophonist and educator Kidd Jordan. He's accompanied by a true kindred spirit, Hamid Drake. Though both have made names for themselves in the rarefied world of free improvisation, neither are shy ...


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