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Music Review: Christopher Alpiar Quartet – The Jazz Expression
Let me begin by admitting that I have never been much of a fan of what is often called free jazz—the more innovative and complex it got, the more I found myself floundering in its experimental...
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Music Review: OWL Trio –‘OWL Trio’
While it took awhile for my aged brain to figure out why the OWL Trio had chosen that name for itself, it took no time at all to figure out their eponymous album was a winner. One trip through the disc...
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Music Review: John Coltrane –‘Afro Blue Impressions’ [Remastered & Expanded...
Fifty years is a lifetime for some, but John Coltrane accomplished so much in his short life, having died at the age of 40 in 1967. On October 22, 1963, and November 2, of the same year, he was on a...
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Music Review: Ayman Fanous and Jason Kao Hwang –‘Zilzal’
While it might make some sense to discuss Zilzal, the debut album from Ayman Fanous (guitar and bouzouki) and Jason Hao Hwang (violin and viola) in abstract musical terms, it is much too tempting to...
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Music Review: David Helbock’s Random/Control –‘Think of Two’
Think of Two, the new album from David Helbock’s Random/Control based in Germany, isn’t music for the conservative jazz lover. Although the tunes on the set include well-known jazz standards by...
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Music Review: Rich Rosenthal –‘Falling Up’
That the music on guitarist Rich Rosenthal’s self-produced album, Falling Up, is not what anyone would call mellow or pretty is a gross understatement. The music is often hard to listen to. It is not...
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Music Review: James Brandon Lewis –‘Divine Travels’
In an interview with Allaboutjazz.com, lauded young saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, after quoting an Albert Ayler statement about music as a “healing force,” asserts that his own “sound and approach...
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Music Reviews: Ivo Perelman –‘Two Men Walking,’‘Book of Sound,’‘The Other Edge’
In his notes to The Other Edge, one of the three – count them, three – new albums recently released by avant-garde tenor sax player Ivo Perelman, critic Neil Tesser ponders what to call the kind of...
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Music Review: Mark Weinstein –‘Latin Jazz Underground’
The aesthetic posture of Latin Jazz Underground, the latest album from flautist Mark Weinstein, can be best described by the title of its seventh track, a Sam Rivers composition called “Mellifluous...
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Music Review: Zlatko Kaučič and Agusti Fernández –‘Sonic Party’
Drummer/percussionist Zlatko Kaučič and pianist Agusti Fernández are hardcore improvisers. Their phrasing is spontaneous and motivated by off-the-cuff impulses and spur-of-the-moment ideas. Their...
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Music Review: Christopher Alpiar Quartet – The Jazz Expression
Let me begin by admitting that I have never been much of a fan of what is often called free jazz—the more innovative and complex it got, the more I found myself floundering in its experimental...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: OWL Trio –‘OWL Trio’
While it took awhile for my aged brain to figure out why the OWL Trio had chosen that name for itself, it took no time at all to figure out their eponymous album was a winner. One trip through the disc...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: John Coltrane –‘Afro Blue Impressions’ [Remastered & Expanded...
Fifty years is a lifetime for some, but John Coltrane accomplished so much in his short life, having died at the age of 40 in 1967. On October 22, 1963, and November 2, of the same year, he was on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: Ayman Fanous and Jason Kao Hwang –‘Zilzal’
While it might make some sense to discuss Zilzal, the debut album from Ayman Fanous (guitar and bouzouki) and Jason Hao Hwang (violin and viola) in abstract musical terms, it is much too tempting to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: David Helbock’s Random/Control –‘Think of Two’
Think of Two, the new album from David Helbock’s Random/Control based in Germany, isn’t music for the conservative jazz lover. Although the tunes on the set include well-known jazz standards by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: Rich Rosenthal –‘Falling Up’
That the music on guitarist Rich Rosenthal’s self-produced album, Falling Up, is not what anyone would call mellow or pretty is a gross understatement. The music is often hard to listen to. It is not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: James Brandon Lewis –‘Divine Travels’
In an interview with Allaboutjazz.com, lauded young saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, after quoting an Albert Ayler statement about music as a “healing force,” asserts that his own “sound and approach...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Reviews: Ivo Perelman –‘Two Men Walking,’‘Book of Sound,’‘The Other Edge’
In his notes to The Other Edge, one of the three – count them, three – new albums recently released by avant-garde tenor sax player Ivo Perelman, critic Neil Tesser ponders what to call the kind of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: Mark Weinstein –‘Latin Jazz Underground’
The aesthetic posture of Latin Jazz Underground, the latest album from flautist Mark Weinstein, can be best described by the title of its seventh track, a Sam Rivers composition called “Mellifluous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Review: Zlatko Kaučič and Agusti Fernández –‘Sonic Party’
Drummer/percussionist Zlatko Kaučič and pianist Agusti Fernández are hardcore improvisers. Their phrasing is spontaneous and motivated by off-the-cuff impulses and spur-of-the-moment ideas. Their...
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