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31 Jan
From AAJ:
31-Jan-08 Uri Caine
The Classical Variations (Winter & Winter)
Reviewed by C. Michael Bailey
31-Jan-08 Ryan Blotnick
Music Needs You (Songlines Recordings)
Reviewed by Martin Gladu
31-Jan-08 Nik Bartsch’s Ronin
Holon (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman
31-Jan-08 Samo Salamon
Fall Memories (Splasc(H) Records)
Reviewed by Budd Kopman
30-Jan-08 Enrico Rava / Stefano Bollani
The Third Man (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman
30-Jan-08 Samo Salamon
Nano (Zalozba Goga)
Reviewed by […]
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31 Jan
New York’s Stone promises a hot March.
March 2008 at the Stone curated by Elliott Sharp
3/1 Saturday (DB)
8 pm
Melvin Gibbs Solo
Melvin Gibbs (bass)
10 pm
FLUX Quartet
Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris (violins) Max Mandel (viola) Ha-Yang Kim (cello)
In addition to string quartets by John Cage and Elliott Sharp, FLUX will break down to solo, duo and trio […]
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31 Jan
A couple of new ones from Free Albums Galore:
Jeff McLeod - At The End of The Path
Plaistow - Los Criminales Reciclados En Conductores De Autobuses
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31 Jan
Another review of this ongoing performance series.
Elliott Carter has touched on just about every musical format in his long and prolific career, but chamber music is where he has always seemed the most comfortable, or at least the most inclined to experiment with language and texture. The Juilliard School has taken that point to heart […]
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31 Jan
From Bagatellen:
Bobby Few - Lights and Shadows - 30 Jan 08
Radu Malfatti - Claude Lorrain 1 / Kid Ailack 5 - 30 Jan 08
Zaid Nasser - Escape From New York - 29 Jan 08
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31 Jan
Members of Wolf Eyes and various related groups are profiled.
As internationally known experimentalists, Wolf Eyes — Young, Olson and Mike Connelly — drags audiences back in time to the brutal, primordial origin of sound, summoning what can be sensed and felt, but not intellectually known (not even necessarily heard, what with all that noise). Such […]
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31 Jan
Flautist Mitchell is interviewed.
The best jazz flautist around today is back with another strong album. Chicago-based Mitchell’s imaginative arrangements showcase her versatile playing in its best light. The album starts in a swinging head/solo/head fashion then moves into more involved song structures as the disc wears on. Jeff Parker’s presence on guitar substitutes for Mitchell’s […]
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31 Jan
Melford is profiled:
[A] rift arose in the late 1950s when a few musicians, mainly Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, began creating songs lacking the traditional skeleton on which all previous jazz or pop tunes were erected: a repeating chord progression. Like the Abstract Expressionist painters had done before them, these musicians insisted that […]
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31 Jan
From Audiversity:
Mike Ladd - “Nostalgialator”
Matana Roberts Quartet - “The Chicago Project”
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30 Jan
The AACM is hosting a series of shows in the Hyde Park area.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE MUSICIANS (AACM) AND THE HYDE PARK ARTS CENTER PRESENTS:
“SONG OF LOVE AND LIGHT”
Donation is $10.00 - Students $5.00
Schedule for upcoming performances:
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Fenix
Dushun Mosley, Percussion; Art “Turk” Burton, African/Afro-Latin Percussion and Peresina Burton, Spoken Word.
Sunday, […]
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30 Jan
And they’re free!
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Anthony Braxton:Small Ensemble
Saxophonist, composer and professor Anthony Braxton, known for his ground-breaking jazz and experimental music, performs in an intimate, small-ensemble setting.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Center for the Arts
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: 860-685-3355
Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Anthony Braxton:Large Ensemble
Professor Braxton’s student ensemble performs his music.
Location: Crowell […]
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30 Jan
From Free Jazz:
Lonely Woman - 8 Femmes Seules
Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Mat Maneri, Paul Motian - Two Miles A Day
Gwincinski-Richter-Skolik - Jupiter Urizen Wernyhora Trungpa
Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader
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30 Jan
The Necks will play New Zealand next month.
THE NECKS - Friday 29th February 2008
THE AUDIO FOUNDATION IN COLLABORATION WITH VIT S PRESENT
THE FIRST 2008 ALT.MUSIC EVENT THE NECKS
FEB 29TH, 8 PM, $25.00
THE CIVIC WINTERGARDEN
267 Queen St, Auckland
Tickets through Ticketek
Free workshop TBC
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30 Jan
A recent review praises Skerik, an experimental sax player.
One of the most imaginative and resourceful saxophonists, Skerik often pops up on the same stage with other trailblazers like Marco Benevento, Bobby Previte, Stanton Moore and Les Claypool. Experimental and saxophonist aren’t always two words you like to hear together: for all of John Zorn’s estimable […]
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30 Jan
From Musique Machine:
George & Caplin - He Really Got Through to Advertising
George & Caplin are like a slightly stirred cocktail of ; Broads of Canada nostalgic electronica, 80’s shoe gazing guitar pop, hints of wonky Madchester like groove, folk & country flavours & off kilter slightly geeky pop matter- this is their 4th album.
Vapaa - […]