Tag: Recreation

Free Jazz Blog Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date December 20, 2009

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2009
The Light – Afekty (MultiKulti, 2009) ****½

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2009
Empty Cage Quartet – Gravity (Clean Feed, 2009) ****

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009
Daniel Blacksberg Trio – Bit Heads (NoBusiness, 2009)
David Taylor – Red Sea (Tzadik, 2009)
Superimpose – Talk Talk (Leo Records, 2009)
Noah Rosen, Yves Robert, Didier Levallet – Silhouette (Sans Bruit, 2009)

Bynum-Hébert-Cleaver Trio In Philly Tonight (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Gil Evans: Blues In Orbit | CD review (guardian.co.uk)
The Fonda/Stevens Group’s Memphis Released Today (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Joe Maneri (1927-2009) (thebadplus.typepad.com)

Tags Arts, Free jazz, Jazz, Leo Records, Music, Recreation, Talk, Tzadik Records

Interviews Releases Reviews

December Point of Departure is Out

Post author By Mike
Post date December 8, 2009

The new Point of Departure web-zine is available.

Page One: a column by Bill Shoemaker
What’s New?: The PoD Roundtable
A Fickle Sonance: a column by Art Lange
The Book Cooks: Time and Anthony Braxton by Stuart Broomer (The Mercury Press; Toronto)
&
Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist’s Life, by Mark Miller (The Mercury Press; Toronto)
Far Cry: a column by Brian Morton
Moment’s Notice: Reviews of Recent Recordings
Ezz-thetics: a column by Stuart Broomer
Travellin’ Light: Chad Taylor
Parisian Thoroughfare: a column by Alexandre Pierrepont

Harris Eisenstadt’s CD Release Tour Begins Tomorrow (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Previewing Our Clients’ Fall Performances (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Jesse Canterbury & Friends (waywardmusic.blogspot.com)

Tags Anthony Braxton, Canada Day, Jazz, Musical ensemble, New York City, Recreation, Tenor saxophone, Toronto

AMN Picks General

AMN Picks of the Week

Post author By Mike
Post date October 26, 2009

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.

Furuya Nobuyasu – Bendowa (2009)
Darius Jones Trio – Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (2009)
Humbero Luis Schenone – Um Perto, a Percussion Trip (2009)
Joe Morris – Today on Earth (2009)
Matthew Welch – Luminosity (2009)
Katherine Young – Further Secret Origins (2009)
Batchelor / Black / Buckley / Melford / Marshall – Big Air (2009)

Time Out New York Previews Darius Jones’ Debut On AUM Fidelity (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Darius Jones Trio Added To Firehouse 12 Schedule (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)

Tags Beautiful Thing, Earth, Raw & Beautiful Thing, Raw Foodism, Recreation, United States, Vegetarianism, WWE Raw

Releases

Tzadik August Releases

Post author By Mike
Post date August 24, 2009

: Image via Wikipedia

From Tzadik:

Ben Goldberg
Speech Communication

David Taylor
Red Sea

Eyal Maoz’s Edom
Hope and Destruction

John Zorn
Music for Children—10th anniversary edition

On Ka’a Davis
Djoukoujou!

Tags Fred Frith, Israel, johnzorn, Middle East, Recordings, Recreation, Shopping, United States

Performances

Pomigliano Jazz Festival 2009 Photos

Post author By Mike
Post date July 15, 2009

: Image via Wikipedia

Anthony Braxton, William Parker, and many others are featured in pictures from this festival.

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)

Tags Art, Arts and Entertainment, Cheltenham, Festivals, Jazz, Jez Nelson, Music, Recreation

Podcasts

AMN Podcast: Steve Lehman Octet – Travail, Transformation, and Flow

Post author By Mike
Post date June 23, 2009

Steve Lehman Octet
“Echoes” (mp3)
from “Travail, Transformation, and Flow”
(Pi Recordings)

Vision Festival, Days 1 and 2 Reviewed

Post author By Mike
Post date June 12, 2009

Magnet Magazine has posted review of the Vision Festival’s Day 1 and Day 2.

Stinking Lizaveta: Album/Tour (jambase.com)

Tags Art, Arts and Entertainment, Magnet, Magnet Magazine, Music, Recreation, Reintegration Time, Shout Out Out Out Out

Reviews

The Squid’s Ear Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date May 3, 2009

: Elliott Sharp (via last.fm)

From the Squid’s Ear:

Full Blast (Brotzmann / Pliakas / Wertmuller) – Black Hole
Birgit Ulher / Heiner Metzger – Blinzeln
Elliott Sharp / Bernhard Lang – War Zones
Luc Ferrari – Archives Genetiquement Modifiees/Societe II
Loren Connors & Jim O’Rourke – Two Nice Catholic Boys
Who Trio – Less is More
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Powertrio – What We Think When We Walk and What We Walk While Thinking

Tags Autos, Black hole, Dave Madden, Education, Kranky Records, Makes and Models, Recreation, School Time

Performances

DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

Post author By Mike
Post date April 26, 2009

: Joe McPhee (via last.fm)

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

April 23, 2009
Little Women, Zebulon
Darius Jones, Travis Laplante, Jason Nazary, Andrew Smiley
Sparks with Sam Pluta, Zebulon
Tom Blancarte, Peter Evans, Sam Pluta
The Thing with Joe McPhee, Zebulon
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love

Audible Think; 2007-2008 Season Schedule… (audiblethink.blogspot.com)

Tags Collecting, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Joe McPhee, Little Women, Military, Recreation, Thing, Toys

Performances

DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

Post author By Mike
Post date April 21, 2009

: Carla Kihlstedt (via last.fm)

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

April 19, 2009
Trio X with Rosie Hertlein, Alain Kirili Loft
Steve Dalachinsky, Dominic Duval, Rosie Hertlein, Alain Kirili, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Joe McPhee, Jay Rosen, Stephanie Stone
Solo, Issue Project Room
Eugene Chadbourne

April 18, 2009
Dub Trio, Bowery Ballroom
Stu Brooks, DP Holmes, Joe Tomino
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Bowery Ballroom
Matthias Bossi, Nils Frykdahl, Carla Kihlstedt, Michael Mellender, Dan Rathbun

Tags Arts, Bowery Ballroom, Dance, New York City, Performing Arts, Recreation, Venues

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