Thursday, February 11, 2021

Signe Emmeluth - Hi Hello I’m Signe (Relative Pitch Records, 2021) ****

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  By Eyal Hareuveni About a year and a half ago, the Free Jazz Blog crowned Danish, Oslo-based alto sax player Signe K. Emmeluth a...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Thumbscrew - The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform, 2020) ***(*)

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  By Stephen Griffith For as long as Anthony Braxton has been a vital force in this type of music, as well as...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

King Übü Örchestrü - Concert at Town Hall/Binaurality Live - 1989 (FMP/Destination:OUT! Digital, 2020) ****(*)

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  By Nick Metzger "The painter facing the white canvas Or Improvised music arises from silence Or ...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

William Parker – Migration of Silence Into and Out Of the Tone World (Centering, 2021) ****

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By Paul Acquaro , Tom Burris , and Nick Ostrum Following Lee Rice Epstein's review of the new William Parker biography , we thought it w...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Cisco Bradley - Universal Tonality (Duke University Press, 2021)

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By Lee Rice Epstein Like Graham Locke writing about Anthony Braxton in the 1990s, Cisco Bradley’s biography of William Parker arri...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

Nublu Orchestra, conducted by Butch Morris - Live in Paris (Nublu Records, 2020) *****

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By Gary Chapin The fact that this recording opens up with the sort of  skribbly-BLAT-blat  that has been a free jazz  cri de coeur  since th...
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Friday, February 5, 2021

Èch – Èch (Un Rêve Nu, 2020) ****

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By Nick Ostrum Heddy Boubaker has an interesting history in music. Originally, he was a sax demon, exploring both the lowercase de...
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Thursday, February 4, 2021

Soft Works - Abracadabra in Osaka (Moonjune, 2020) ****

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By Paul Acquaro I tumbled into the rabbit hole of Soft Machine with a download of  Third . From here it took me a bit of time to understa...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Solo Trumpet

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 By Stef Gijssels Confinement leads to isolation and personal creativity. We have heard many solo releases this year, including for solo tru...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Andrew Smiley - Looming As Light Torn (self-released, 2020) ****

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  By Keith Prosk Guitarist and vocalist Andrew Smiley explores extended songform on the emotional noise of Looming As Light Torn ....