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Article: Multiple Reviews

William Parker: Temporary & In the Shade of the Sun

Read "William Parker: Temporary & In the Shade of the Sun" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk

William Parker / Giorgio Dini Temporary Silta 2009 John Blum with Sunny Murray and William Parker In the Shade of Sun Ecstatic Peace 2009 Bassist William Parker is deeply familiar ...

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Article: Album Review

John Blum: In The Shade Of The Sun

Read "In The Shade Of The Sun" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Despite his relative anonymity, pianist John Blum has been a New York free jazz fixture for more than a decade. In the Shade of the Sun teams him with ubiquitous bassist William Parker and percussion innovator Sunny Murray. Blum and Murray work well together, having established their musical relationship in Murray's trio and on Perles Noires ...

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Article: Album Review

Flux: Peninsulator

Read "Peninsulator" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Any band setting out to make a debut recording these days has a potentially inexhaustible number of influences from which to draw upon. Consequently, it is increasingly difficult to sound unlike anybody else. Flux, whose members attend Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, has produced a recording with echoes of progressive rock, classical chamber music and post-modern jazz ...

Article: Album Review

William Parker - Giorgio Dini: Temporary

Read "Temporary" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Parrebbe un formato inusuale, quello che abbina due contrabbassi nella durata di un intero disco. Ma dopo la storica, eccezionale esperienza registrata da Barre Phillips e Dave Holland nel 1971 con Music from Two Basses, la pratica si è andata allargando attraverso una serie nutrita di incontri ad alto livello, che hanno visto dialogare Phillips con ...

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Article: Book Review

Who Owns Music?

Read "Who Owns Music?" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Who Owns Music? William Parker Soft cover; 140 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020141-7 Buddy's Knife 2007 Spirituality runs deep in the music and thinking of bassist William Parker. Those who have looked at the sleeves of his albums will have noticed that he not only expresses his philosophy ...

Article: Album Review

Joëlle Léandre - William Parker: Live at Dunoìs

Read "Live at Dunoìs" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Lo sappiamo, William Parker e Joëlle Léandre sono oggi due fra i massimi interpreti del contrabbasso: più o meno coetanei ma di diversa formazione culturale, hanno messo a punto approcci allo strumento, e più in generale alla musica, personali e molto diversi fra loro. Lo statunitense è soprattutto un leader indiscusso, un guru della musica afroamericana ...

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Article: Live From New York

February 2010

Read "February 2010" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Jack DeJohnette BirdlandNew York, NY January 5, 2010When Jack DeJohnette hires double-neck guitarist David “Fuze" Fiuczynski and acclaimed altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa as the frontline in his new quintet, he's probably signaling an intention to shred. The legendary drummer did exactly that when he debuted the new Jack DeJohnette Group at ...

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Article: In the Artist's Own Words

Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum

Read "Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Introduction by AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen. It is rare in the climate of this music to be presented with a view of an artist that is truly multifaceted, even though the collected works of most artists operate at a number of levels and, on occasion, in a number of media. Bill Dixon is probably best known ...

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Article: Profile

Matthew Shipp: Traversing The Regions of the Mind

Read "Matthew Shipp: Traversing The Regions of the Mind" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton

On May 17, 2009, at 6 pm, Matthew Shipp walked through the front door of Roulette, a performance venue on the Lower East Side in New York City. His face appeared no more or less expressive than it normally does. He is wont to demonstrate his feelings facially, except through laughter and an occasional smile. On ...

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Article: Live Review

Craig Taborn Trio at the Vortex, London, England

Read "Craig Taborn Trio at the Vortex, London, England" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Craig Taborn Trio Vortex London, England December 7, 2009 Judging by the number of young musicians in the audience, pianist Craig Taborn has something of a reputation among the cognoscenti. That many of them were pianists too just whetted the appetite even more for his leadership debut in the UK ...


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