Category: Reviews

This week’s DMG Newsletter is worth a read or two.

NPR has posted a review of the new Fieldwork release.

A brief review of some new Berio releases is available.

Another review of Braxton’s latest effort is available.

The latest release form the trio Fieldwork is reviewed.

The BBC has posted a review of this new release.

A few new reviews of interest this month from All About Jazz:

Soft Machine & Heavy Friends: BBC in Concert 1971 (Hux Records)
Bull Fonda Duo: Cup of Joe, No Bull (Corn Hill Indie)
Eugene Chadbourne: The Hills Have Jazz (Boxholder Records)
Hamid Drake/Albert Beger/William Parker: Evolving Silence, Vol. 1 (Earsay)
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress (Pi Recordings)
Cecil Taylor: Almeda (FMP Records)
Wayne Horvitz: Wayne Horvitz: Intersection Poems & Live ()
Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther Longitude (Thirsty Ear Recordings)
Joe McPhee: Joe McPhee: Everything Happens For a Reason (Roaratorio Records)
Free Base: The Ins and Outs (Emanem)
Paul Rutherford: Iskra³ (Psi)
Billy Bang: Billy Bang: Configuration & Vietnam: Reflections ()
William Parker: Sound Unity & Two Masters & Mass for the Healing of the World ()
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: A New Distance (Emanem)
Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections (Justin Time Records)
Vijay Iyer: Reimagining (Savoy Jazz)
Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta: There, Just As You Look For It (pfMentum)
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: A Blessing (OmniTone)
Peter Brötzmann and Walter Perkins: Peter Brötzmann: Berlin Djungle & Medicina ()
Emily Hay: Like Minds (pfMentum)
Graham Collier: Workpoints (Cuneiform Records)

A long and opinionated critique of the early part of Ornette Coleman’s career is available.