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Article: Album Review

Andy Milne & Dapp Theory: Forward In All Directions

Read "Forward In All Directions" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

On Forward in All Directions, pianist and bandleader Andy Milne brings various musical elements to play, including electronics and spoken word alongside some masterful playing and chemistry from his bandmates. The album kicks off with “Hopscotch," an up-tempo number centered on Aaron Kruziki's saxophone with a smart backbeat from the rhythm section. “Photograph" introduces electronics in ...

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Article: Album Review

Brian Groder Trio: Reflexology

Read "Reflexology" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The cover of trumpeter Brian Groder new trio tells much about his aesthetics. He is well-versed with the compositional ideas of the great American jazz masters and their improvisation strategies--Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, including trumpeters as Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard. But in the same manner that these innovative and creative muscians marked their ...

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Article: Album Review

Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: …Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire

Read "…Awaits Silent Tristero’s Empire" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Quarantatre anni, un po' chicagoano e un po' californiano, Kyle Bruckmann conferma in questo suo nuovo lavoro quanto sia per lui irrinunciabile tenere il piede in più scarpe. A suo tempo intruppato come fisarmonicista e tastierista in una “sgangherata rock band" (la definizione non è nostra) come i Lozenge, Bruckmann se n'è poi venuto fuori -fra ...

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News: Music Industry

Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary Celebrations Continue With Uncompromising Expression Book Release

Blue Note Records anniversary celebrations are still in full swing as we head into the Fall of our 75th year. In addition to new releases from Jason Moran, Otis Brown III, Ryan Adams, and Kandace Springs coming out this Autumn — as well as the continuation of our vinyl reissue series — the label will also ...

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News: Recording

"Oh, Pierre!" - New Music From Space Genetics

"Oh, Pierre!" - New Music From Space Genetics

Continuing in their tradition of exploring the crossroads of jazz, electronic music, and free improvisation, Space Genetics—the experimental music duo of Paul Scea and Eric Haltmeier—have released Oh, Pierre!—their fifth album to date. Consistently pushing back against the confines of any one particular stylistic framework, the eight original compositions that make up 'Oh, Pierre!' are interwoven ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Moving from the Disco Ball to the Jazz Supper Club

Moving from the Disco Ball to the Jazz Supper Club

Singer Evelyn Thomas, best known for 1980s hit songs in the disco and Hi-NRG dance club genre, is revisiting her roots as a singer. While not abandoning her dance music work, she has gone back to jazz. And she’s loving it. Thomas made her local jazz debut Saturday night, September 13, at JD’s Bistro & Grille ...

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News: Festival

Jazz with Dominican accents and flavours: A reality in South Florida

Jazz with Dominican accents and flavours: A reality in South Florida

The third version of the South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest is anxiously awaited in Miami In October 2012, Landestoy Enterprises presented a completely new and exiting concept from the Dominican Republic: The South Florida Dominican Jazz Fest. A multicultural event that brought to Florida the best Jazz currently being made by musicians in the Dominican Republic ...

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News: Video / DVD

Unknown Mahavishnu Orchestra Video Unearthed

Unknown Mahavishnu Orchestra Video Unearthed

An investigative reporter, doing research for a book about an aspect of the Beatles, has discovered a long-forgotten and very rare professionally produced video performance of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The video was literally on its way to the trash bin to be lost forever when Paul Larosa eyed it amongst a treasure trove of musical memorabilia ...

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News: Recording

Equilibrium Return With "Liquid Light"

Equilibrium Return With "Liquid Light"

European Trio - Sissel Vera Pettersen, Mikkel Ploug and Joachim Badenhorst - Will Release Third Songlines CD on October 14 “...music of exploration...There are elements of serenity from many different avenues of influence on each of the members... Equilibrium has made it sound so easy and so beautiful...Highly Recommended and a must have for everyone." —JazzWrap ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Ray Clemens

Read "Take Five With Ray Clemens" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Ray Clemens: Born in Oklahoma. High school at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, CA. College and briefly at the New School for Social Research in NYC. Been playing for what seems ages....and yet I can't come up with suitable material for the bio. Instrument(s): Bass -upright & electric, piano


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