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  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Beat Circus – Dreamland Beat Circus boil up a rather potent mixture of junk band music, demented brass band work-outs, flamboyant and often doomy string work, old time jazz colours that have often quite a Jewish feel, sawing folk and the odd hint of off-kilter pop sensibilities. All to make Dreamland a…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Monday, March 2, 2009 Steve Lantner Quartet – Given/Live In Münster (Hatology, 2008) **** Saturday, February 28, 2009 Fattigfolket – Fattigfolket (ILK music, 2008) ***½ Friday, February 27, 2009 Denman Maroney Quintet – Udentity (Cleanfeed, 2009) ****½ Related articles by Zemanta AccuJazz.com Launches Avant-Garde Jazz Channel (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Mary Halvorson Featured On NPR…

  • Free Jazz Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Garrison Fewell – Variable Density Sound Orchestra (Creative Nation, 2009) **** Hiram Bullock – Plays Jimi Hendrix (BHM, 2009) * Monday, February 23, 2009 Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney – Live In Concert (Kadima, 2009) **** Related articles by Zemanta Australian trio the Necks makes more sound than…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Nels Cline – Coward (Crypogramophone, 2009) ****½ Monday, February 16, 2009 Brad Shepik – Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009) **** Sunday, February 15, 2009 Collective 4tet – Transition (Leo Records, 2009) ***** Saturday, February 14, 2009 Bob Gluck Trio – Sideways (FMR, 2008) ****½ Related articles by Zemanta…

  • Making avant-garde jazz in a mostly killing climate

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    Moppa Elliott of Mostly Other People Do the Killing is interviewed. The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label,…

  • Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Offers Free Album Download

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    Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey joins many other artists with offering free music to fans. Related articles by Zemanta Reed Mathis Leaves Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey To Focus on Tea Leaf Green (idiomag.com) JFJO NYE: Prince, Jackson, Richie (jambase.com) 2009 Winter Jazzfest | 01.10 | NYC (jambase.com)

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    From Free Jazz: Sunday, January 11, 2009 Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky & Michael Griener – The Salmon (Intakt, 2008) **** Andrew Lamb & Warren Smith – The Dogon Duo (Engine, 2005) **** Saturday, January 10, 2009 Carl Ludwig Hübsch – The Universe Is A Disk (Leo Records, 2008) **** Friday, January 9, 2009 Wac?aw Zimpel &…

  • 2008 Village Voice Jazz Poll Winners

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    Image via Wikipedia The annual Village Voice poll is a great way to catch up on the year’s recommended listening. The top 25 are listen below. 1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 1 (Doxy/Emarcy) 208.5 points (29 ballots) 2. Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen (Pi) 118.5 (16) 3. Charles Lloyd Rabo de Nube (ECM) 115 (18) 4.…