Monday, August 12, 2024

Talkin' Velvet Monkeys On Another Blog

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Velvet Monkeys. Back: Elaine Barnes. Front: Charles Steck, Don Fleming, Jay "The Rummager" Spiegel In addition to this space, I co...
Wednesday, August 07, 2024

LP Review: Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe

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Pernice Brothers Who Will You Believe (New West) NewWestRecords.com During frequent listens to Pernice Brothers albums like Yours, Mine and ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

A Talk With Micky Dolenz

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Monkees enthusiasts can likely recall a scene from the episode of the show called "The Monstrous Monkee Mash." While Mike Nesmith,...
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

CD Review: Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead - spi-ralling horn

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Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/ Damon Smith/ Adam Shead spi-ralling horn (Balance Point Acoustics/ Irritable Mystic) irritablemysticrecords.ba...
Monday, July 08, 2024

CD Review: Travis Reuter - Quintet Music

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Travis Reuter Quintet Music (self-released) www.travisreuter.com or travisreuter.bandcamp.com/album/quintet-music Birds of Fire was the fi...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Dish It Out: Remembering James Chance

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The Contortions, on the No New York compilation. Chance is pictured top left. Before John Zorn, before Eric Dolphy, before even Charlie Park...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

CD Reviews: Matthew Shipp Trio - New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz, Rich Halley - Fire Within

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Some time last year, I hatched a plan to write a piece about ESP-Disk's reissue of Matthew Shipp's 1990 debut album, Circular Temple...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis Lift the Bandstand; Thoughts on Steve Albini

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The past week was filled with some sad music news, not to mention a personal deadline to write about a particular jazz box set. But the week...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2024

GBV in Pittsburgh, April 27

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GBV vocalist Robert Pollard, with drummer Kevin March and guitarist Doug Gillard   While waiting to get through the security check point at ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Recap of the African Rhythms Alumni Quintet + Memories of Randy Weston

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Anyone who had the good fortune to hear Randy Weston play live, like the time he came to Pittsburgh in 2013, understood the musical lineage ...
Friday, April 26, 2024

An Appreciation of Michael Cuscuna

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I've told this story numerous times, but it seems like it's never appeared on this blog, and the timing is right. It was a chilly al...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Jazz For Record Store Day, Part 2

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I had really hoped to post maybe a review a day this week of these Record Store Day releases, but that just wasn't in the cards. For one...