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Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
CONSEQUENCES TRIO New York Contemporary Five Consequences Fontana : 1963 Archie Shepp, tenor sax; Don Cherry, trumpet; John Tchicai, alto sax; Don Moore, bass; J.C. Moses, drums. The New York Contemporary Five barely lasted a year all told, but they recorded five albums that shaped the jazz to come. They were a supergroup after the fact – the stellar frontline [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
GOING To repeat: I have no intention of Rifftides becoming an obituary service, but as James Moody says his grandmother told him, "Folks is dyin' what ain't never died before," and some passings demand to be observed. John Norris died yesterday in Toronto at the age of 76. He was the founder of the Canadian jazz magazine Coda, and of Sackville Records. Norris was a benevolent and resolutely...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
GOING To repeat: I have no intention of Rifftides becoming an obituary service, but as James Moody says his grandmother told him, "Folks is dyin' what ain't never died before," and some passings demand to be observed. John Norris died...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
During the 1960's, spurred on by the civil rights movement, African-American jazz musicians began to take control of the means of jazz production. Forming artists collectives like the AACM and BAG, and releasing their music on small artist run record labels, musicians began to take complete control of the music they were making. This compilation tracks jazz inspired by the struggle for rights and equality...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Marion Brown Why Not? ESP-Disk 2009 (1966) While the term "fire music" has held sway as a descriptor of the music of post- John Coltrane / Albert Ayler saxophonists from the 1960s onward, it's long been an incomplete summation of the work of most of these musicians. Alto saxophonist Marion Brown appeared on Coltrane's Ascension and tenorman Archie Shepp 's Fire Music (both Impulse, 1965)...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
Aldo Romano - Jazzpar Prize (Phantom ) Angelo Debarre - Live In Le Quecumbar (Fremeaux & Associes ) Anthony Braxton - Anthony Braxton ( ) Antonio Ciacca - Lagos Blues ( ) Antonio Ciacca / Qnt - Lagos Blues (MTM ) Archie Shepp - Yasmina: Black Woman ( ) Archie Shepp - Poem For Malcom ( ) Archie Shepp - Live In Antibes 1 ( ) Archie Shepp - Live In Antibes 2 ( ) Archie Shepp - Live At The Panafrican...
entschwindet und vergeht (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
And to round off three little jazz posts. This is an astounding piece of music, the uncensored version of 'Fables of Faubus' by Charlie Mingus from 1961. It's this kind of mock-sloppy, deeply political and conceptual music that would later be taken on by artists like Archie Shepp and Marion Brown as the radical wing of the 'New Thing' in the late 60s. I'd pay close attention to an absolutely incredible...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A week to give thanks. We open with newly re-mastered material from Nigeria's Fela Kuti. Then comes N'Dambi with one of the best Soul albums of 2009. And we close with majestic interpretations of "Wise One" by John Coltrane, Dwight Tribble, Archie Shepp, Conrad Herwig & Brian Lynch, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ravi Coltrane. Give mucho [...]
Beard (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
With the skies above Glasgow weeping, Beard Radio brings you sunshine and joy . And it seems to have worked, cos the morning after we woke up to a beautiful autumn day. Holger Czukay - Cool In The Pool; Movies (EMI) Ducktails - Let's Rock The Beach; Landscape (No Not Fun) Todd Rundgren - International Feel/Never Never Land; A Wizard A True Star (Bearsville) Mercury Rev - Empire State (Son House In...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Bebop was considered a radical departure for jazz music during its formation in the 1940s and 1950s, pioneered by drummer {{Max Roach = 10725}}, {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} and {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} among others. Coupled with tenor saxophonist {{Archie Shepp = 4266}}'s 1960s avant-garde jazz proclivities, the artists respectively helped procure a prismatic and non-traditional perspective on the...
Culture (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Leeds Jazz is looking forward to its 25th Anniversary weekend at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton next weekend, from October 22nd to 26th. But these will be celebrations with a difference. Because Leeds Jazz is also preparing its own demise: by the end of November it will almost certainly no longer exist. Dave Hatfield, who has been with [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note 1963 John Coltrane / Archie Shepp New Thing At Newport Impulse 1965 Bobby Hutcherson Head On Blue Note 1971 {{Bobby Hutcherson = 7844}} is now comfortably ensconced in jazz history as one of the great vibraphonists of the post-Milt Jackson generation. He has amassed a large discography that demonstrates his melodic and compositional skills and flawless technique....
Jennifer K Dick (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Salon des Mots – Saturday, October 10th 2009 at 20h Atelier de Werkvloer Brigittenstraat 7 Utrecht, Netherlands Free entry! http://www.wordsinhere.com http://www.atelierdewerkvloer.nl Salon des Mots is gearing up for the new poetry season at a new location in the heart of Utrecht, Atelier de Werkvloer. Get back to the roots of Salon des Mots, which began 5 years ago in an Oudegracht atelier with...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
An accident of timing brought an overlap of the New Languages Festival, in its fifth year, and the Clean Feed Fest, in its fourth.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Recorded live in concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival on August 30, 1979, The Long March documents another of drummer {{Max Roach = 10725}}'s historic duo collaborations with the leaders of the jazz avant-garde. This stellar date with tenor saxophonist {{Archie Shepp = 4266}} follows Streams of Consciousness (Piadrum, 1977), with pianist {{Abdullah Ibrahim = 7858}}, and Birth and Rebirth (Black Saint,...
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