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Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman

Alternating Current is a completely entrancing recording that captures three master players listening and responding in real time. Both Matthew Shipp and William Parker thrive in the completely improvised arena, which is why drummer Jeff Cosgrove wanted them for this project. A second reason might have been that neither musician had ever played a ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Your Shipp Has Come In

Read "Your Shipp Has Come In" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

These two guest appearances demonstrate that pianist Matthew Shipp has become an elder statesman in the jazz world. How that happened can be boiled down to two simple elements. One: he has created a unique sound and language for improvised music and two: Shipp has become a doyen of cutting edge music making and opinion.

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Drummer Jeff Cosgrove certainly knows how to draw attention to himself. For his third album the DC area-based drummer enlists the services of two avant jazz icons in pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker. Just what a coup this is can be gauged from the fact that Shipp's previous sideman dates have included the legendary ...

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Article: Album Review

Borah Bergman/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Michael Wimberly: Vita Brevis

Read "Vita Brevis" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Vita Brevis represents maverick pianist Borah Bergman's last session before his death at age 85 in 2013. In the liners label boss Joe Chonto speculates that Bergman suffered from undiagnosed Aspberger's syndrome. As such it's perhaps not a surprise that he found his niche in outsider music--the jazz avant-garde. However his musical ability was never in ...

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Article: Live Review

Suoni Per Il Popolo 2014

Read "Suoni Per Il Popolo 2014" reviewed by Mike Chamberlain

by Mike Chamberlain

Suoni Per Il Popolo Various venues Montreal, Quebec June 4-22, 2014 Every June, the good folks who run Montreal's Casa del Popolo and Sala Rossa hold an extravaganza of what some call “liberation music" and what they call Suoni Per Il Popolo, or “sounds for the people." Now ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

"Playing music is like doing heart surgery," bassist William Parker told interviewer Radhika Philiip in Being Here: Conversations on Creating Music (Radio.org, 2013). “Every time you hit a note, someone's life is on the line, and so you can't fool around." Serious intent and intense focus are the cornerstones of these playful dialogues between ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Carter, William Parker, Federico Ughi: Navajo Sunrise

Read "Navajo Sunrise" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Il 19 dicembre 2010 presso l'Area Sismica di Forlì il trio composto da Daniel Carter, storico altista della scena free newyorchese, da William Parker, gigante del contrabbasso, e da Federico Ughi, batterista nato a Roma residente da oltre dieci anni a New York, dà vita ad un concerto entusiasmante, per intensità, compattezza, osmotico interplay, brillantezza espressiva. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Introducing the Polish Label For Tune

Read "Introducing the Polish Label For Tune" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The polish For Tune label was founded in 2013 and has already managed to release 30 albums that feature some of the lesser known yet intriguing Polish outfits. The three outfits presented below all feature a fresh, unconventional perspective on the jazz idiom, its legacy and its inclusive current and future sonic language. The label succeeded ...

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News: Festival

Vision Festival 19 Concludes With Pianos And A Voice.

Vision Festival 19 Concludes With Pianos And A Voice.

Along with the celebrations of Amiri Baraka and Roy Campbell on the final day of Vision Festival 19 are several ensemble situations for piano from a duet fir Angelica Sanchez, a trio for Connie Crothers and the venerable Dave Burrell in striking quartet with Kidd Jordan, William Parker and Hamid Drake. And the voice of Fay ...

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News: Festival

Vision Festival 19 Has The Matthew Shipp Trio In The Thick Of It

Vision Festival 19 Has The Matthew Shipp Trio In The Thick Of It

In many ways, Saturday is a miniature of the entire guiding outlook and purpose of this annual love labor from Arts For Art. All elements, discussion, youth support, poetry and a well sequenced array of distinct and personal performance statements are present and the stalwart Matthew Shipp Trio speaks to the element of continuity. A FUTURE ...


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