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Freddie Hubbard
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard/The Body and the Soul (Impulse!) By Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Impulse! has prepared another load of twofer reissues of albums from their extensive library. Some...
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Interview: Joe Morris
by Phil Freeman Joe Morris has been a crucial figure on the global free jazz/free music scene since the 1980s. Starting out as a guitarist, he expanded to bass, and has worked with many of the major...
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Chrome Hoof: Disco-Techno-Hippie-Doom-Prog
I first encountered Chrome Hoof at NYC’s long-defunct Tonic in 2004, second on the bill between Sunburned Hand of the Man and headliners Sunn O))). I hated them; the morning after the show, I wrote,...
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Cecil Taylor In 1983
Some fantastic video of Cecil Taylor from 1983 was recently uploaded to YouTube. The two lengthy performances come from European TV, and were posted by André Martinez Reed, one of the two...
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Kamasi Washington
After spending more than a half decade writing about music, it’s getting easier and easier to see which way the wind is blowing. The habits and tics of creative people aren’t hard to miss. Even more so...
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Miroslav Vitous
Despite his unceremonious ousting from Weather Report, a group he helped found alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter and keyboardist Joe Zawinul, bassist Miroslav Vitous has not shied away from...
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Conference of the Birds
by David Menestres There are few things that trigger memory the way a favorite album will. The smell of your old car burning oil, summer humidity pouring in your open windows faster than the breeze you...
View ArticleNeptunian Maximalism
There are a lot of different ways you can combine jazz and metal (and avant-garde noise) to create something more powerful than any one of those elements on its own. Kevin Martin, best known these days...
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Photo: Eleonora Cerri Roots Magic is an Italian quartet: Alberto Popolla on clarinet and bass clarinet, Errico DeFabritiis on alto and baritone saxes, Gianfranco Tedeschi on bass, and Fabrizio Spera on...
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Odyssey @ 20
Trumpeter Bill Dixon was a crucial figure in the history of the 1960s musical avant-garde, but his disinclination to participate in the commercial marketplace ultimately limited his music’s reach....
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