Free Jazz Blog Reviews

From Free Jazz:

Thomas Zehetmair & Ruth Killius – Manto and Madrigals (ECM, 2011) ****
Christine Sehnaoui & Magda Mayas – Teeming (Olof Bright, 2010) ****
Giovanni Di Domenico & Alexandra Grimal – Ghibli (Sans Bruit, 2011) ****½
Joel Futterman & Ike Levin – Dialogues and Connections (Charles Lester Music, 2010) ****
Jaruzelski’s Dream – Jazz Gawronski (Clean Feed, 2010) *****
The Dorf – Le Record (Leo Records) ***½
Joe Sachse Trio – One Take (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) ****

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Touching Extremes Reviews

From Touching Extremes:

BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC – Dawn Of The Cycads
DUANE PITRE – Origin
SEASONS (PRE-DIN) – Lesser And Still
FREDERIK CROENE – Le Piano Démecanisé
REVENANT – Zeltini
NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK & JUAN JOSE CALARCO – Lack Affix
LUIGI TURRA & CHRISTOPHER MCFALL – Tactile.Surface

Newsbits

Matana Roberts, moers festival 2010

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A recent American Composer’s Orchestra show is reviewed.

Gutbucket has released a cool interview video.

Matana Roberts‘ recent show in London is reviewed.

The Residents will be performing in Seattle.

The LA Times covers a festival featuring Philip Glass.

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Avant-garde organ at Blindspot

John Zorn

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

The concept alone was mesmerizing – avant-garde saxophonist/composer John Zorn playing the first and last pipe organ concerts of Philly’s Blindspot festival at Old City’s historic Christ Church. The festival, which teamed Dustin Hurt’s experimental Bowerbird concerts and Anna Drozdowski’s performance-oriented Ladybird events, offered innovative artists an even greater opportunity to stretch.

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Eugene Chadbourne and Tatsuya Nakatani in Pittsburgh, March 31

Eugene Chadbourne

From Pittsburgh New Music Net:

On Thursday, March 31, free improvising avantjazz/folk hero Eugene Chadbourne makes a long awaited return from his home base in Greensboro, N.C. to play in duo with his touring partner, percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani from Philadelphia. Local artists Darryl Fleming (on guitar, with
guest accompanist) and Michael Johnsen (electronics)
open the show. The concert is at Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Avenue, and is open to all ages. Admission is $10.

Chadbourne has dozens of records out, and has collaborated
with the likes of John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink and Carla Bley as well punk/rockers such as Camper Van Beethoven, Jello Biafra, Turbonegro, They Might Be Giants, Sun City Girls and Violent Femmes. He also did a tour with Jimmy Carl Black of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention.

http://www.eugenechadbourne.com/

http://www.myspace.com/eugenechadbourne

Tatsuya Nakatani has worked with dozens of experimental musicians in the United States (Assif Tsahar, Mary Halvorson, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, Marc Ribot, Sabir Mateen, Cooper-Moore, Ken Vandermark, Billy Bang, Frank Lowe, Joe Maneri, LaDonna Smith), in Europe (Peter Kowald, Peter Brotzmann, Michel Doneda, Barre Phillips, Le Quan Ninh, Joelle Leandre, Phil Minton, Alessandro Bosetti, Giani Gebbia, Frank Gratkowski, Rafael Toral) and in Japan (Otomo Yoshihide, Satoko Fujii, Seiichi Yamamoto of the Boredoms), and tons more.

http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

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New ReR/AdHoc Releases

Sun Ra at New England Conservatory, February 2...

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Now out on ReR USA:

MacLean, Steve: GPS
Sun Ra: The Paris Tapes (Double CD)
Sun Ra: Space Probe

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Nate Wooley Interview

From Ten Thousand Hours:

Trumpeter Nate Wooley speaks about his upcoming projects as Artist In Residence at Issue Project Room and his projects with longtime collaborators like Paul Lytton and C. Spencer Yeh, as well as his work with amplified trumpet in a more noise -based sonic environment, and his work in three great contemporary jazz quintets: those of saxophonist Matt Bauder, drummer Harris Eisenstadt, and his own quintet: an ensemble whose instrumentation mirrors the iconic ensemble of Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch album. He discusses the influence of trumpeters Ron Miles and Herb Robertson, recent developments in trumpet lineage and the antecedents to the current renaissance of creative trumpet music.

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