Bagatellen Reviews

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Joe Maneri/Peter Dolger – Peace Concert
Duets between saxophonists and drummers are an important part of recorded improvisation, a distillation of action to breath and rhythm. The list is long, beginning in recorded jazz with the Sonny Rollins and Philly Jones duo reading of “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” for Blue Note and carrying on through such […]

Wadada Leo Smith – Procession of the Great Ancestry
Trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith’s second of two dates for Nessa Records is a true embodiment of the AACM Great Black Music aesthetic.Procession of the Great Ancestry is a very mature record, Smith’s concept of rhythm-units clearly defined, ripening aesthetically yet tied to a sense of history. By the early 1980s, Smith was resident in […]

Jana Winderen – Heated: Live in Japan
Many inventions have reflected an atavistic need to aid man in his destruction of the planet, which have then developed benign, civilian applications: Radar, Nuclear Power, perhaps even Jerry Springer. And this is certainly true of a beloved device of professional field recorders everywhere: The Hydrophone.
First used in […]

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