Sunday, November 27, 2011

Holiday weekend at Gooski's

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Playing right now: Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble- Inana (Pi) I love going to Gooski's on Thanksgiving weekend. It's usually crow...
Friday, November 25, 2011

CD Review: Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms - Spacer

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Sorry if you're here looking for the review. I'm filing a review with JazzTimes and it wouldn't be cool to have both of these u...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

CD Review: The Four Bags - Forth

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The Four Bags Forth (NCM East) www.ncmeast.com For a band whose instrumentation consists of trombone, clarinet/bass clarinet, guitar and acc...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Blogging problems

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The previous post was written early this morning, but I didn't get to post it until I got into work just now. (Don't worry, boss, I...

Paul Motian - Last Words

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File this one under the take-it-anyway-you-want: I was driving home from work last night a little before 6 p.m. I'm pretty sure the cloc...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

CD Review: Travis Laplante - Heart Protector

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Travis Laplante Heart Protector (Skirl) www.skirlrecords.com Once at a Peter Brotzmann show, I ran into a saxophone player whose persona...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

CD Review: Nice Guy Trio & Darren Johnston

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The Nice Guy Trio Sidewalks and Alleys/Waking Music Darren Johnston's Gone to Chicago The Big Lift (Porto Franco) http://www.portofranco...
Monday, November 14, 2011

CD Review: Wadada Leo Smith - Heart's Reflections

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Wadada Leo Smith's Organic Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform) http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/ Wadada Leo Smith dedicated each of the...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Sebadoh article in Blurt!

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Blurt posted my Sebadoh article on Thursday. Here it is. There were a few different angles I could've taken. Hopefully this one worked.
Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Ditty Committee in Pittsburgh

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In the early '00s, I struck up a friendship with a New York band called Fake Brain, after they brought their spastic sort of indie rock ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

CD Review: Gigi Gryce - Doin' the Gigi

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Gigi Gryce Doin' the Gigi (Uptown) http://www.uptownrecords.net/ In the final, live portion of this CD, announcer MC Hugh Downs (yes, ...
Friday, November 04, 2011

The man with the best job in the world

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Michael Cuscuna spoke tonight at Pitt as part of the university's Jazz Seminar. (The print version of my Q&A with him in City Paper ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sebadoh, Morty and Me

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Tuesday night, Sebadoh played at the Brillobox. This has been a much-anticipated show for me, in part because it was 20 years ago this month...
Friday, October 21, 2011

CD Review: The Spanish Donkey - XYX

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The Spanish Donkey XYX (Northern Spy) http://www.northern-spy.com/ Let Joe Morris go a few weeks without a shave, put him together with two...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Work. Sort of.

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It's turning out to be a week of phone interviews. On Monday I talked to Lou Barlow, which - as you might have deduced if you checked ou...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Social Climbers - Vintage No wave you might like

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Also Blurt ran my review of a CD reissue by the Social Climbers, a band sort of affiliated with the no wave scene of late '70s/early ...

Review from JazzTimes website

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JazzTimes posted my review of the Starlicker show right here . Check it out.
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Interview with Rob Mazurek

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Last week to preview Starlicker's show at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh City Paper ran a very short Q&A that I did with Rob Maz...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Birthday Weekend in Review

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Playing right now: Jason Adasiewicz - Rolldown (482 Music) Not to be confused with Varmint by Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown, which I revi...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

An appreciation: Lovin' Spoonful - Everything Playing

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A few weeks ago when we had a yard sale, I combed through the record collection I bought over the summer, pulling out things that were wo...
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