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Day: February 16, 2010

  • Newsbits

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    Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society will perform at the upcoming Newport Jazz Festival in August. Workbench Recordings has a new track from Jim McAuley & Andrew Pask available for free download. The latest from Mostly Other People Do the Killing gets a review. Currently running is a Iannis Xenakis exhibit at Drawing Center in New…

  • Composers Now Festival in NY

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    From Composers Now: Composers tell the story of the times. Through poetic lyricism or kinetic cacophony; mellifluous soaring lines or jagged, irregular phrases; music tells a story. Whether it’s meticulously notated or freely improvised, rooted in Beethoven or Coltrane, derived from indigenous folk traditions or algorithmic formulations, acoustically rendered or made by machine, music has…

  • Free Improv With a Noise-Rock Bite (and a Free Download)

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    From the Chicago Reader: Overova—a trio of Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Jason Roebke on bass, and Jason Adasiewicz on drums—doesn’t convene all that often. In fact, until very recently I didn’t even know the group existed. I guess I just wasn’t paying close enough attention, because a couple of years ago Overova made a record…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Monday, February 15, 2010 Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara – Stepwise (Not Two, 2010) ****½ Saturday, February 13, 2010 Kirk Knuffke – Amnesia Brown (Clean Feed, 2010) ***** Friday, February 12, 2010 Jones Jones – We All Feel The Same Way (SoLyd records, 2009) **** Thursday, February 11, 2010 Stephan Sieben,…

  • AUM Fidelity To Release Little Women’s Full-Length Debut, Throat, April 13th

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    From Improvised Communications: On April 13th, AUM Fidelity will release Throat (AUM061), the full-length debut from the Brooklyn-based quartet, Little Women. The group, featuring Travis Laplante (tenor saxophone), Darius Jones (alto saxophone), Andrew Smiley (guitar) and Jason Nazary (drums), works as a collective to create extended suites renowned for their dynamic, hard-hitting amalgam of jazz,…

  • Weird Forest Releases

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    A trio of new releases are out on the Weird Forest label. Love Cry Want Self-Titled 2xLP Nearly 40 years after its creation, Weird Forest is proud to release this seminal jazz album for the first time ever on vinyl. The incendiary grooves captured in this wax defy description. It is not free, funk, fusion…