Saturday, August 24, 2013

CD Review: Chris Kelsey & What I Say - The Electric Miles Project

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Chris Kelsey & What I Say The Electric Miles Project (Self-released) whatisay.org From the way Dave Liebman described his time wi...
Monday, August 19, 2013

CD Review: Roscoe Mitchell Quartet - Live at "A Space" & Roscoe Mitchell - Not Yet

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Roscoe Mitchell Quartet Live at "A Space" 1975 (Delmark/Sackville) www.delmark.com 2013 has seen the release of a few...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

CD Review: Han Bennink/Uri Caine - Sonic Boom

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Han Bennink/Uri Caine Sonic Boom (816 Music) www.uricaine.com It's kind of a surprise that no one else has spoofed the title of M...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

I H8 Radio

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Playing right now: John Coltrane - Sun Ship: The Complete Session (I thought about getting Mosaic's 3LP edition of this set because I...
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

CD Review: Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Somewhere

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Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette Somewhere (ECM) www.ecmrecords.com This album, and pianist Keith Jarrett in particular, ha...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Belle and Sebastian visit Highland Park

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Let's see if blogging will get the Verizon guy - now 2 hours and 22 minutes past his window of arrival time - to show up. Belle and Se...
Friday, July 05, 2013

CD Review: Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense - Moment & the Message

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Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense Moment & the Message (Pi Recordings) www.pirecordings.com Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

CD Review: Blue Cranes - Swim

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Blue Cranes Swim (Cuneiform) www.cuneiformrecords.com Portland's Blue Cranes might not be thought of as group that plays jazz, d...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Eleanor Friedberger was here!

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Eleanor Friedberger is asleep somewhere in Pittsburgh right now. Wish I was too. Last night, her show at the Brillobox was a mess of fun....
Sunday, June 23, 2013

CD Review: Ceramic Dog - Your Move

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Ceramic Dog Your Turn (Northern Spy) www.northern-spy.com Marc Ribot is not the type of person who will hold back, whether he has a g...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Random Thoughts.

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I would prefer to be writing a review of an album for this space right now, but I know that there's not enough time to devote to it befo...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

CD Review: Uri Gurvich - BabEl

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Uri Gurvich BabEl (Tzadik) www.tzadik.com BabEl  has an interesting concept: assemble a group of musicians who all hail from differen...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Pittsburgh Jazz - yes, it's here

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The Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival happened this past weekend. ( I wrote about here if you're interested .) It looked really...
Friday, June 07, 2013

A Good Day for Records

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Playing right now: Wayne Horvitz/Butch Morris/Robert Previte - Nine Below Zero Yesterday I finally made it over to Galaxie Electronics, wh...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

CD Review: Byron Allen Trio

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The Byron Allen Trio (ESP) www.espdisk.com Upon discovering the ESP catalog during high school via the Base label reissues, and the oc...
Monday, June 03, 2013

CD Review: Mara Rosenbloom Quartet - Songs from the Ground

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While in Ohio over the weekend, I didn't have internet access and I wasn't the writing fiend I had hoped to be. But I did bang out o...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Friday in the heat

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It's Friday and now that we're grilling out each week at work, I don't have to be there until noon. That means there's a few...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Here's B.A.L.L. And I'm sick

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This week I came down with a case of laryngitis for the first time since grade school. It was kind of cool at first, until I realized that I...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Vanderslice Vinyl Arrives

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John Vanderslice's new albums came in the mail on Thursday! I didn't know they were here until yesterday morning, by which point I w...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

B.A.L.L. is coming!

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Something's bugging me. Not sure what, so I made a drink and decided I better write a little. I can't just do CD reviews and nothing...