Saturday, May 30, 2020

CD & DL Review: Threadbare (Jason Stein/ Ben Cruz/ Emerson Hunton) - Silver Dollar & Greg Ward/Jason Stein/ Marcus Evans/ Chad Taylor/ Matt Lux - 85 Bears

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Though, at this point, we're all still pretty much under quarantine, a number of albums are still being released. In fact, several mus...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

CD Review: Dayna Stephens Trio - Liberty

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Dayna Stephens Trio Liberty (Contagious Music) www.daynastephens.net Maybe it's my ears, but between "Ran" and "F...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

DL Review: Steve Lehman - Xenakis & the Valedictorian / Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - InWhatStrumentals

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When the coronavirus pandemic kicked into high gear, Pi Recordings responded proactively with a musical series entitled This Is Now: Love In...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

CD Review: Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus -Rats and Mice/ Lina Allemano - Glimmer Glammer

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There are several things I would like to write about now, and I thought about grouping them together thematically, rather than by artist. A...
Monday, May 04, 2020

RIP Richie Cole

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The past Saturday afternoon, I was on my break at work, scrolling through the usual media traps on my phone when I saw it. Pittsburgh bassis...
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Sunday, April 26, 2020

CD Review: Lisa Mezzacappa Six - Cosmicomics

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Lisa Mezzacappa Six Cosmicomics (Queen Bee) www.queenbeerecords.com This isn't the first time bassist Lisa Mezzacappa has found mu...
Friday, April 24, 2020

CD Review: Paul Bryan - Cri$el Gems

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Paul Bryan Cri$el Gems (Self-release)  paulbryanmusic.bandcamp.com/ Paul Bryan is the kind of musician who gets around. A Grammy Awar...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

RIP Lee Konitz, Henry Grimes, Giuseppi Logan, Bucky Pizzarelli

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My wife mentioned that after David Bowie and Prince died in 2016, a friend of hers pondered that maybe the Rapture had come and those two we...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

CD Review: Curt Sydnor - Deep End Shallow

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Curt Sydnor Deep End Shallow (Out Of Your Head) www.outofyourheadrecords.com Curt Sydnor saw something when he was young that left a ...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

CD Review: Liberty Ellman - Last Desert

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Liberty Ellman Last Desert (Pi) www.pirecordings.com Guitarist Liberty Ellman's music is constructed in such a way that all...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

RIP Hal Willner

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I've always thought John Zorn helped me to discover Thelonious Monk, and it's true to a great extent. But I never would have discove...

CD Review: Shabaka & the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History

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Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!) www.impulserecords.com "We Are Sent Here by History is a...
Monday, April 06, 2020

CD Review - Landline

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Another release from late last  year that should be noticed now. Landline s/t (Loyal Label) www.loyallabel.com It sounds like a c...
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

"Stairway to Heaven" and "Free Bird" To Be Pulled From the Airwaves

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Back in January, word leaked out that the self-proclaimed "#1 Audio Company in America" was engaging in a series of massive layoff...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

CD Review: Bobby Previte/Jamie Saft/Nels Cline - Music from the 21st Century

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Bobby Previte/Jamie Saft/Nels Cline Music from the 21st Century (RareNoise) www.rarenoiserecords.com (I realize this is the third alb...
Friday, March 27, 2020

CD Review: Todd Marcus - Trio+

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Todd Marcus Trio+ (Stricker Street) www.toddmarcusjazz.com When jazz melodies are compared to folk music, it usually means the music ...
Monday, March 23, 2020

CD Review: Le Rex - Escape of the Fire Ants

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Le Rex Escape of the Fire Ants (Cuneiform) www.cuneiformrecords.com Escape of the Fire Ants  was released almost a year ago but the 1...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

CD Review: Thollem/Parker/Cline - Gowanus Sessions II & Radical Empathy Trio - Reality and Other Imaginary Places

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Thollem/Parker/Cline Gowanus Sessions II Radical Empathy Trio Reality and Other Imaginary Places (ESP-Disk') www.espdisk.com ...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Remembering McCoy Tyner

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It just hit me that I never wrote a post saluting McCoy Tyner, after he passed away on March 6. Many other people have spoken more eloquentl...
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Sunday, March 15, 2020

CD Review: Tim Berne's Snakeoil - The Fantastic Mrs. 10

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Tim Berne's Snakeoil The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt) www.intaktrec.ch Charles Mingus called several of his albums "the best t...