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  • Angel City Jazz Festival

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    The Angel City Jazz Festival takes place on Labor Day Weekend in LA, and features Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Dave Douglas, Bennie Maupin, Billy Childs, Larry Goldings, Satoko Fujii, Wayne Horvitz, and many more.

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Saturday, August 15, 2009 David Sait – Postage Paid Duets, Vol. 2 (aPRISe, 2009) ****½ Josh Berman – Old Idea (Delmark, 2009) Azar Lawrence – Prayer For My Ancestors (Furthermore, 2008) Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil – Shadow Machine (Pogus, 2009) Yoni Kretzmer’s New Dilemma (Earsay, 2009) Jerry Granelli V16 – Vancouver…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    Image via Wikipedia From All About Jazz: 18-Aug-09 Dave Holland / Gonzalo Rubalcaba / Chris Potter / Eric Harland The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival Records) Reviewed by Mark F. Turner 18-Aug-09 Tom Abbs & Frequency Response Lost & Found (Engine Studios) Reviewed by Jerry D’Souza 17-Aug-09 Horace…

  • Incus Records Featured at Henry Street Settlement

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    Fred Frith via last.fm From New York’s Henry Street Settlement: INCUS FESTIVAL 2009 October 17 & 18 | 8 pm Two diverse, breathtaking evenings of musical fireworks to celebrate Incus Records, one of the world’s most important improvisation based record labels. Each night features the musical luminaries Cyro Baptista, Min Xiao Fen, Fred Frith, Milford…

  • Jazz History Scrambled, With Love and Respect, at Zebulon in Brooklyn

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    NYTimes.com reviews Mostly Other People Do the Killing. There’s a bustling, ostentatious impiety in the music of Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, it’s a jazz quartet with a diligent grasp of history but an anarchic take on convention. At Zebulon in Brooklyn late on Thursday night, the group…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Toby Dammit – L’Uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo L’Uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo is the new slice of effective face pounding and brain slapping power electronics outpouring from imposing tattooed covered Italian Toby Dammit( aka Emanuele Gorreri) Churner – Spirit Defector Built via microphones, processors, turntables and voices Spirit Defector is all…

  • Moraine’s Manifest Density out on Moon June Records

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    From Moon June Records: You could describe the output of this towering electric string quartet-plus-drums as “heavy chamber music.” With its several writers and full complement of ace instrumentalists, arrayed in striking combination, Moraine achieves a coherent sound while drawing on forms ranging from math-rock to fractured bebop to Chinese folk music to unleashed, plugged-in…

  • AMN Picks of the Week

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    John Zorn via last.fm Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Don’t take the categories too seriously. Thank You…

  • Tim Berne: The Subliminal Explorations of a Creative Mind

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    Image via Wikipedia All About Jazz features an interview with Tim Berne. Fascinated by unconventional and complex ideas, saxophonist and composer Tim Berne has become a creative force, exploring all the possibilities in sound through his fearless and brilliant imagination. Related articles by Zemanta Firehouse 12 To Present The James Carney Group May 15th (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    Six Organs of Admittance via last.fm From Dusted: Artist: Jason Kahn Album: Vanishing Point Label: 23five, Inc. Review date: Aug. 5, 2009 Artist: Six Organs of Admittance Album: Luminous Night Label: Drag City Review date: Aug. 3, 2009 Artist: Tetuzi Akiyama Album: The Ancient Balance to Control Death Label: Western Vinyl Review date: Jul. 31,…

  • New on Mode Records

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    Image via Wikipedia From Mode Records: New and Recent Releases: Lei Liang: Brush-Stroke Joshua Fineberg: Imprints, Veils and Shards Iannis Xenakis: Complete String Quartets

  • Mats Gustafsson Of The Thing Interviewed

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    The Thing via last.fm From The Quietus: His most stable project has been his long-standing trio The Thing, with bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love — a swinging harsh-jazz ensemble renowned for meaty deconstructions of Bowie, the White Stripes, Peter Brötzmann, Lightning Bolt and countless other unlikely targets. This weekend, The Thing will…

  • DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

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    Image via Wikipedia From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: July 30, 2009 The BBC, The Stone Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline Related articles by Zemanta Firehouse 12 To Present The James Carney Group May 15th (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Hoor-Paar-Kraat – In Eros Veritas In Eros Veritas stands as some of most musically based, noise tinged and dense material released thus far by this project- that’s best described as surreal soundscape making that mixes in elements of drone matter, field recordings, and various other genre traits to make something that is…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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    From Sonomu: Greta Hoheisel & Norbert Lang, Bukarest Fragmente (CD & Book Gruenrekorder) A three-pronged guided tour – music, text, image – of Bucharest, a “metropolis in constant flux”, according to the introduction. Bucharest has indeed historically been one of the important capitals of central Europe, but long fell under the shadow of the dictator…

  • The Paul Dunmall Trio at the Vortex, London

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    Mujician via last.fm All About Jazz reviews this recent show. British reedman Paul Dunmall breaks bread with a wide range of collaborators. While the ensuing documentation is less prolific than say Anthony Braxton’s or Steve Lacy’s in either’s heyday, there is rarely overlap in personnel on consecutive discs. Saxophone, bass and drums have proved a…

  • Six Questions for … Tortoise

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    Rob Mazurek via last.fm Chicago’s Tortoise is interviewed. More than any other band, the veteran Chicago group has most singularly been associated with the largely instrumental, ’90s-born genre that incorporates all kinds of non-rock sounds yet most appealed to an indie-rock audience. The band’s latest album, “Beacons of Ancestorship,” is one of the most vigorous…

  • Jon Irabagon finds the balance between inside and outside jazz

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    From the Chicago Reader: Saxophonist Jon Irabagon, who grew up in Morton Grove and later Gurnee and studied music at DePaul University, has steadily made a name for himself since relocating to New York in 2001 to pursue further studies at the Manhattan School of Music. For the plast few years he’s earned plaudits for…

  • Pomigliano Jazz Festival 2009 Photos

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    Image via Wikipedia Anthony Braxton, William Parker, and many others are featured in pictures from this festival. Related articles by Zemanta The Convergence Quartet Live On BBC3’s Jazz on 3 (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) More Outside Jazz Thanks to the Jazz Institute of Chicago (idiomag.com)

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: White Hills Album: Heads on Fire Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Jul. 14, 2009 Artist: Joe Morris / Petr Cancura / Luther Gray Album: Wildlife Label: AUM Fidelity Review date: Jul. 13, 2009 Artist: Isis Album: Wavering Radiant Label: Ipecac Review date: Jul. 10, 2009 Related articles by Zemanta Tortoise – new…

  • CD Release: The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music

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    A review of this recent release is available. This is a collection of historical recordings, dating back primarily to the sixties-seventies, with a selection that accomplishes meticulous research into early Danish electronic avant-garde. This CD collects experiments done with the help of seminal analog instrumentation, in studios where it was easy to find DIY mixing…

  • New Releases From FMP/FREE MUSIC PRODUCTION

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    Peter Kowald via last.fm From FMP FMP CD 131 WITHOUT Olaf Rupp FMP CD 132 OPEN SECRETS Peter Kowald FMP CD 133 NO COMMENT Keune-Schneider-Krämer Related articles by Zemanta Peter Brötzmann, Nasheet Waits and Eric Revis Trio [Victory Grill] (austinist.com)

  • The Convergence Quartet Live Show Available

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    The Birmingham Jazz Jukebox is hosting a recent live recording of the Convergence Quartet. The Convergence Quartet Recorded Live for Birmingham Jazz @ Jazz Club, The Rainbow, Birmingham 29th April 2009 Taylor Ho Bynum – Cornet, etc. Alexander Hawkins – Piano, etc. Domonic Lash – Contrabass Harris Eisenstadt – Drums

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    Rob Mazurek via last.fm From All About Jazz: 24-Jun-09 Fred Anderson Staying in the Game (Engine Studios) Reviewed by Henry Smith 23-Jun-09 Objets Trouves This Side Up (Intakt Records) Reviewed by Nic Jones 22-Jun-09 Katharina Weber Woven Time (Intakt Records) Reviewed by Nic Jones 21-Jun-09 John Hebert Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12 Records) Reviewed by Nic…