The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Baloni - Fremdenzimmer (Clean Feed, 2011) ****½

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By Stef A "Fremdenzimmer" is the German word for a guest room, litterally "a room for strangers", usually paid for, ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Stone Quartet - Live At Vision Festival (Ayler, 2011) ****½

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 By Stef On their second release, "The Stone Quartet" continues their ephemeral study of fleeting sounds, as on their debut al...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Delphine Dora, Paulo Chagas, Bruno Duplant - Onion Petals As Candle Light (Self-published, 2012) ****

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 By Stef Have you ever heard of Delphine Dora? French piano player born in 1980? Probably not. She's a singer songwriter and improvi...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

BassX3 - Transatlantic (Leo, 2012) ****

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 By Stef On this exquisite and genre-defying album, we find three likeminded artists from three continents exploring aesthetic and auth...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Ross Hammond Quartet - Adored (Prescott Recordings, 2012)****

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By Paul Acquaro Hammond makes a grand entrance on the anthemic 'Adored'. The title track kicks off with some sound effects but qu...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Familiar paths

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By Paul Acquaro I love hiking, often hitting trails in the New York area that I've covered time and time again. While I often feel the n...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (Delmark, 2011) *****

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By Paul Acquaro A work that features bass clarinet, and especially the contrabass clarinet, will usually rise to the top of the pile for me,...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet - Live in Basel (Hate Laugh Music, 2011) ****

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By Paul Acquaro On Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet's "Live in Basel', a refined smoothness masks a turbulent undercurrent. Y...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Days of Vandermark & Brotzmann

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By Paul Acquaro I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to follow the typically adventurous path of Ken Vandermark and Peter Brotzm...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Marc Hannaford - Ordinary Madness (Marchon, 2012) ****½

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By Stef Australian pianist Marc Hannaford is part of the forward looking band " The Antiprodean Collective "with Scott Tinkle...
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