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  • Umbrella Music Through January 31

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    Image via Wikipedia From Chicago’s Umbrella Music: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 The Hideout 10:00PM | Ken Vandermark’s Don Cherry Project Ken Vandermark – reeds Dave Rempis – saxophones Jeb Bishop – trombone Pandelis Karayorgis – wurlitzer Nate McBride – acoustic bass, electric bass Jason Adasiewicz – vibraphone Chad Taylor – drums two sets $8 cover…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: The Red Krayola with Art & Language Album: Five American Portraits Label: Drag City Review date: Jan. 20, 2010 Artist: Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino Album: Shall I Download a Blackhole and Offer it to You Label: Blast First Petite Review date: Jan. 15, 2010 Artist: Ambarchi / Fennesz / Pimmon /…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2010 Thomas Heberer – Five By Five (Self Published, 2009) **** SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2010 Chicago Underground Duo – Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey, 2010) ****½ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010 Dave Rempis & Frank Rosaly – Cyrillic (482 Records, 2010) **** TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010 Andreas Schmidt, Samuel Rohrer, Thomas…

  • DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

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    From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: January 16, 2010 Meridian Arts Ensemble, Abrons Arts Center Dave Ballou, John Ferrari, Daniel Grabois, Benjamin Herrington, Brian McWhorter, Jon Nelson, Raymond Stewart Open Circuit International Trumpet Ensemble, Abrons Arts Center John Betsch, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Franz Hautzinger, Joe McPhee, Itaru Oki, William Parker, Herb Robertson January 15, 2010 Chuck Bettis…

  • Roulette in February

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    From NY’s Roulette: Tenko Thu Feb 11 – 8:30 PM Tenko kicked off her career in music with female rock group Mizutama Shobodan in 1979. Two years later in New York she got captivated by improvised music and back in Japan started performing in a vocal duo The Honeymoons. In 1984 in New York, Tenko…

  • Jazz Listings from the New York Times

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    From NYTimes.com: ROY CAMPBELL’S AKHENATEN/MATANA ROBERTS’S ILLUMINATION (Thursday) Drawing on the expressive and searching music from his most recent album, “Akhenaten Suite” (2008), the trumpeter Roy Campbell leads a group with Bryan Carrott on vibraphone, Hilliard Greene on bass and Michael Wemberly on drums. Ms. Roberts, an alto saxophonist, pursues her own visions with a…

  • Music and More Reviews

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    Image via Wikipedia From Music and More: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010 Eberhard Weber – Little Movements (ECM, 2009) TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010 Gebhard Ullman – Don’t Touch My Music Vol. 2 Don’t Touch My Music Vol. 2 (Not Two, 2009) MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010 Eberhard Weber – Yellow Fields (ECM 1976, 2010) SUNDAY, JANUARY 10,…

  • Newsbits

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    Image via Wikipedia Frank Rosaly’s Milkwork is out on Contraphonic. Flingco Sound has released a free 15 songs compilation of their artists. Several of Philip Glass‘s discoveries performed recently. Weasel Walter is interviewed about his recent move to Brooklyn. Nate Wooley appears at the Douglass Street Music Collective show in Brooklyn at the end of…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Striborg – Southwest Passage ‘Southwest Passage’ follows the trend of recent Stirborg albums in offering shorter, often more straight forward metallic, rock & blackly punked songs, with a distinctive wonky gothic edge. But don’t panic Sin Nanna hasn’t gone all grim ‘n’ roll on us or for that matter all fist shaking…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010 Fred Anderson – 21st Century Chase (Delmark, 2009) **** SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010 Bengt Berger – Beches Brew (Country & Eastern, 2009) ** or **** FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 Splatter – Music For Misanthropes (Self Published, 2009) **** THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010 Han Bennink & Frode Gjerstad –…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    Image via Wikipedia From Dusted: Artist: Peter Wright Album: An Angel Fell Where the Kestrels Hover Label: Spekk Review date: Jan. 11, 2010 Artist: Keith Rowe / Sachiko M Album: Contact Label: Erstwhile Review date: Jan. 8, 2010 Artist: Burkhard Stangl / Kai Fagaschinski Album: Musik — Ein Porträt In Sehnsucht Label: Erstwhile Review date:…

  • RUCMA Shows

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    From New York’s Rise Up Creative Music & Arts: January 11 TONY TIMES TWO! 7PM Iron Dog Sarah Bernstein – Voice Stuart Popejoy – bass guitar, synth Andrew Drury – Drums 8PM Tony Malaby‘s Paloma Recio Tony Malaby – Saxes /Eivind Opsvik – Bass Ben Monder – Guitar / Nasheet Waits – Drums 9PM Tony…

  • Upcoming Detroit Shows

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    Image via Wikipedia From the Bohemian in Exile: Monday, Jan.25th: Frode Gjerstad/Paal Nilssen Love at 2739 Edwin For more than 30 years, saxophonist/clarinetist Frode Gjerstadt has been a primary figure in the Norwegian improvised music scene. In the early years, he forced to play with musicians from other countries because he had no peers at…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    From All About Jazz: Multiple Artists Alone, Again (Naturally): Peter Brotzmann, Olaf Rupp, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Woody Sullender and Frank Rosaly Reviewed by Clifford Allen Ned Rothenberg / Catherine Jauniaux / Barre Phillips While You Were Out (Kadima Collective) Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil Shadow Machine (Pogus) Reviewed by John…

  • New Releases from Ayler Records

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    From Ayler Records: Snus – Niklas Barnö, Joel Grip, Didier Lasserre This trio was first put together by Marc Fèvre, the active foreman of parisian dynamic wine and free music venue, l’Atelier Tampon, for the celebrations of legendary bassist Alan Silva’s 70th birthday. Ayler Records liked this, and decided to record and produce a CD…

  • For Pierre Boulez, It’s Still About the Music

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    Pierre Boulez via last.fm From NYTimes.com: IN a maroon turtleneck and loose-fitting gray suit, eyes on his score, Pierre Boulez took turns one late August morning here rehearsing the soloists for “Répons.” Written in 1981 for six soloists, chamber orchestra and live electronics, it is the first major work he wrote using the electronic-music institute…

  • Is Avant-Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp His Own Worst Enemy?

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    Matthew Shipp via last.fm Spinner some of Shipp’s more controversial moments. The flip side of this confrontational approach is that Matthew Shipp is one of the most talented players of this era. Closing in on 50, he has released a string of dazzling solo and small-group recordings that range sonically from acoustic to electronic remix.…

  • Company of Heaven Jazz Festival

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    Peter Apfelbaum via last.fm The second edition of this fest takes place this weekend in New York. Friday, January 8, 2010 8:30pm “R*Time” w/special guest Judith Insell(viola) Reut Regev – trombone David Phelps – electric guitar Sean Conly – bass Igal Foni – drums   9:45pm “The Other Quartet” Ohad Talmor – tenor saxophone, clarinet Russ…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    Bill Dixon via last.fm From Dusted: Artist: Colin McLean / Andy Moor Album: Everything but the Beginning Label: Unsounds Review date: Jan. 5, 2010 Artist: Bill Dixon Album: Tapestries for Small Orchestra Label: Firehouse 12 Review date: Jan. 4, 2010 Artist: Pontiak Album: Sea Voids Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Jan. 4, 2010 Related articles…

  • The lion in winter still roars but more quietly

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    Image via Wikipedia From chicagotribune.com, a profile of Pierre Boulez and his upcoming events. On March 26, the French composer and conductor, one of the most distinguished figures in contemporary music, will turn 85. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with which Boulez has enjoyed an exceptionally cordial relationship that goes back four decades, is celebrating that…

  • Upcoming Seattle Shows

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    Amy Denio via last.fm From Wayward Music: FRI. 1/8, 8 PM – Seattle Composers Salon: new music by Gavin Borchert, Peter Stevens, Kam Morril, Steve Scribner, Yvonne Hoar SAT. 1/9, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Amy Denio (solo voice & electronics improvisations) + Beth Fleenor & Figeater (energetic outness) FRI. 1/15 – Seattle Percussion Collective…

  • January at Ars Nova Workshop

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    Rob Mazurek via last.fm From Philly’s Ars Nova Workshop: Friday, January 8, 8pm BEN PEROWSKY QUARTET Chris Speed, tenor saxophone + clarinet; Ted Reichman, accordion; Trevor Dunn, double-bass; and Ben Perowsky, drums Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th Street $10 General Admission Sunday, January 17, 7pm FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET | PHILADELPHIA OPEN CIRCUIT INTERNATIONAL…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    Image via Wikipedia From All About Jazz: Ergo Multitude, Solitude (Cuneiform Records) Reviewed by John Kelman Sun Ra Sun Ra Quartet in Italy, 1978 (Art Yard) Reviewed by Robert Dugan Evan Parker House Full Of Floors (Tzadik) Reviewed by Mark Corroto Medeski, Martin & Wood Medeski, Martin & Wood: Radiolarians – The Evolutionary Set Reviewed…

  • Umbrella Music Through January 17

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    Image via Wikipedia From Chicago’s Umbrella Music: Sunday, 3 January 2010 The Hungry Brain 10:00PM | Nick Mazzarella Trio Nick Mazzarella – saxophone Anton Hatwich – bass Marc Riordan – drums Wednesday, 6 January 2010 The Hideout 10:00PM | DKV Trio Ken Vandermark – reeds Kent Kessler – bass Hamid Drake – drums Sunday, 10…