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| Alberto Braida Giancarlo Locatelli |
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Alberto Braida: piano recorded live on November 21, 2010 |
CATALOGUECATALOGUECATALOGUECATALOGUECATALOGUECATA |
| Braida-Locatelli nel margine cookbook |
Thomas Heberer's Clarino cookbook |
Ensemble X |
Jan Klare's 1000 (shoe) |
Joe Hertenstein polylemma |
Gratkowski/Mezei/ Markos/Blume DuH |
| Gratkowski/ Anderskov ardent grass |
Alexey Lapin et al.seek it not with your eyes |
Liebman/ Parker/Bianco relevance |
Léandre/ Vidal/Boni trace |
Gratkowski/ Brown /Winant wake |
Szilard Mezei Nad / Reed |
| Steve Cohn iro iro |
Houle - Léandre Strid 9 moments |
Alberto Braida Wilbert De Joode reg erg |
Carl Ludwig Hübsch's primordial soup |
Matthias Schubert Quartet trappola |
Kaufmann - Moore Van der Schyff kamosc |
Decision Dream steamroom variations |
Joëlle Léandre India Cooke firedance |
Simon H. Fell SFQ four compositions |
amalgam(e) 10 ans de RED TOUCAN |
Liebig - Vatcher Golia on the cusp of fire and water |
Kyle Bruckmann Wrack |
| laura andel orchestra SomnambulisT |
Frank Gratkowski Quartet kollaps |
Yudanov - Luoma Brötzmann fryed fruit |
Joëlle Léandre no comment |
Rosco Blur stable chaos |
Dana Reason Peter Valsamis border crossings |
Glenn Spearman G-Force let it go |
Talking Pictures the mirror with a memory |
Crispell - Houle any terrain tumultuous |
Houle - Wilson van der Schyff schizosphere |
Charles Papasoff Papasoff |
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| Thomas Heberer's Clarino |
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Thomas Heberer – trumpets Recorded in Brooklyn in May 2011 |
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Jan Klare's 1000 |
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Jan Klare – reeds Recorded at Studio Odéon 120, Bruxelles on May 5, 2011 |
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An amazingly creative quartet |
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| these works signify a hub of cleverly enacted plot conversions. It's an agile unit that can transcend stately themes into loosely organized dialogues with regenerative plot developments. And the soloists' focused interactions intimate a highly artistic game plan that supersedes the tried and true the end result sounds nothing like a cerebral exercise, because of its incredible sense of spontaneity and musical joy that reverberates with every note. |
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DuH
Recorded May 03, 2010 at LOFT (Cologne, Germany) |
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| fearsome individuality Nic Jones - All About Jazz |
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something of an object lesson This CD isn’t just notable for inspired playing, but also as a definition of how a modern mainstream disc should sound. |
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Lapin/Poore/Schubert/Turner/Bledsoe
Recorded live at the LOFT (Cologne, Germany)
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Despite the almost half-century of free improvisation on record, examples such as Seek It Not With Your Eyes serve to emphasize how the methodology is still fresh and still a haven for the unexpected; that elusive sound of surprise is evident here in abundance.
All About Jazz - Nic Jones |
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Recorded at The Vortex, in London,
January 27, 2008 |
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Relevance offers one of the most spectacular examples of unrestrained tenor—and soprano—madness since John Coltrane recorded with Pharoah Sanders. While their soprano saxophones provide passages of light and reflection, it’s the dark intensity of the tenor exchanges that is most memorable in one of the year’s most impassioned releases.
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Léandre-Vidal-Boni
Recorded live at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpelier Languedoc-Rousillon on January 15, 2008
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Bassist/vocalist Joëlle Léandre, saxophonist/vocalist Maguelone Vidal and guitarist Raymond Boni blend their instruments and imaginations, delving into the unusual and fathoming the unexpected. The end result is fascinating. Jerry D'Souza - All About Jazz
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"the artists’ triumphantly pursue a wealth of uncanny musical propositions that should consistently prod or test your inner psyche"
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Szilard Mezei Ensemble
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The music is stately and invigorating and never ceases to thrill. Mezei has fashioned a multi-dimensional and absorbing piece of art. | |||||||||
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"Harmonic/melodic sophistication, astute phrasing and the willingness to reference groove once in a while combine to relate cogent and developed thematic material that wastes neither time nor space in its execution. A more thorough exploration in the ebb and flow of restraint and intensity would be hard to find." |
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François Houle
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"you’d be hard-pressed to chance upon a more invigorating set of improv-spawned works that excite the mind’s eye. Where others fail miserably, these folks succeed in rather luminous fashion!" "Three exceptional improvisers comfortable in the art of instant interaction join forces and unleash an exceptional aural treat on 9 Moments. (...) Expectancy is belied by surprise, the ordinary by excellence." |
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| The two are improvisers of the first caliber, always looking for the new and different while acknowledging the root that is the take-off point. (...) The two are improvisers of the first caliber, always looking for the new and different while acknowledging the root that is the take-off point. Jerry D'Souza - All About Jazz |
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Carl Ludwig Hübsch's
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| This music might be one of the finer examples of how free jazz can be tailored into not randomly coherent, but orchestrated, coherence. Mark Corroto - All About Jazz Imaginative and challenging, it accurately evokes the themes of strangeness and beauty that commingle in the distant structures and spaces of our universe as Hübsch’s inspiration for this work. Brian S. Lunde - Jazz Review |
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| A delirious mix of avant-garde composition and New Orleans style collective improvisation. - Indie Jazz "Trappola" is a great disc that doesn't quite sound like anything else I've heard in a while. Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery Blending freewheeling structures, fervent improvisation and ironic humor with Old World traditions, Schubert and company lend a new wrinkle to the tried and true. Historical revisionism never sounded so good.. Troy Collins - All About Jazz |
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Kaufmann - Moore - Van der Schyff
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| "...small-group improvisation at its most sensitive and responsive" Troy Collins - All About Jazz |
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"...a vigorous document of improvisation at its most fervent.(...)
Decision Dream has channeled its inspirations into a furnace of white-hot xpressionism."
Troy Collins - One Final Note "...spontaneous improvisation braids the strands into a pulsating, awesome tapestry." Jerry D'Souza, All About Jazz |
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Joëlle Léandre - India Cooke
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| "A passionate choreography of strings.
Firedance ranks as one of Léandre's best live sets and is a must-have for fans of improvised string music." - François Couture, All Music Guide |
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"Obviously, one of 2004's best and most challenging releases."
- Downtown Music Gallery |
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| "A spectacular two disc set" - Matthew Sumera, One Final Note |
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"A wonderful recording, worth returning to again and again"
- Matthew Sumera -One Final Note |
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Kyle Bruckmann's
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"At their most laissez-faire, these pieces are tributes to four colleagues whose playing I adore: structures that enable me to finagle my friends into improvising together in certain combinations at certain times. But where they are more determinate, the tunes are devised as an excuse to indulge my lyrical side". (K.Bruckmann) |
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Joëlle Léandre : contrebasse |
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"Duets of any configuration in the avant-garde decry any idea of leader-sideman. This explains the many bass-led duets, a concept alien to hardbop circles, of which bassist Joëlle Léandre is a veteran. Her latest two-disc set on the Canadian imprint Red Toucan, Signature, pairs her with two drastically different Japanese pianists: Masahiko Satoh and Yuji Takahashi. Though the two 30+ minute sessions, recorded live in Japan on two days in December 2000, showcase her forceful playing, they are ultimately a reflection of each pianists identity." Andrey Henkin - All about jazz |
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"Georg and John had not played together for 15 years (formerly in Graewe's Grubenklang Orchestra in 1985/86)
until this recording but their immediate rapport belies this fact...they match perfectly from the first moment on this cd.
The trio's music making on this disc is nothing short of passionate musical introspection."Drimala |
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Achim Kaufmann
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Frank Gratkowski - Wolter Wierbos
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"Simply put, Kollaps is one of Frank Gratkowski's finest albums. ...the saxophonist/clarinetist wrote all of the seven pieces.... Highlights abound, and all four musicians shine.... (Kollaps) is a delightful record." François Couture - All Music Guide |
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The music on this CD was created during our tour as a trio in Finland in the summer of 1999. We recorded in the Kerubi Club in Joensuu, a small industrial town in central Finland. The very "dry" acoustics in the small nightclub altered our approach to some of the compositions. We liked the outcome... (N. Yudanov) |
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Joëlle Léandre
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After listening to jazz (Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Monk, Dolphy), "I quickly got into the free, improvised realm where, for me, Derek Bailey is extremely important, also George Lewis and Irène Schweizer, and for sure, Anthony Braxton. Meeting Derek in New York several years ago had nearly the same impact on me as meeting Cage" (J. Léandre - Kanach, 1991) |
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...The disc is at once brash and complex, filled with rattling stops and starts, blasts of noise, and sweet lyrical passages which create a sort of hyperactive carnival aesthetic by the record's end... Trey Hatch |
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Joëlle Léandre
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| ¨ ...In Leandre's hands, the bass can sing, shout, or sigh with a soulful power.... At times, it seems almost impossible that all of this music could be coming from one person. Each of these improvisations are spectacular pieces of spontaneous composition, shaped out of textural abstractions, melodic threads, and keen references to the Jazz bass tradition. This is music full of gesture, detail, and dramatic scope. No Comment is an indispensable addition to Leandre's already massive list of recordings, and a stellar recital of solo improvisation.¨ Michael Rosenstein |
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Powerful sound emerges from the universe when...( Stevens and Whitecage ) ...improvise on very short forms composed by Stevens ....a volatile and stunning synergy that comes from their long association with each other. ...a culmination of everything they have done over a decade...this collaborative method of `composing in the moment` ...Whitecage fascinated with sound, ambience and melody, Stevens with harmony. ...together, they make miraculous and beautiful artistry that tells the long story of their vital relationship to each other, to the established and emerging musicians of the modern genre and to the music itself. ¨ Laura Arbuckle |
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Rosco Blur
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An album with a pervasive groove,adding spoken words to improvised jazz ; it features Paul Plimley showing his great versatility on piano, + west-coast percussionist Dylan van der Schyff. This is a dynamic mixture with catchy melodies, exotic ambiences, kind of lounge music with attitude. Rosco's performance on sax can be passionate and reveal a gritty sound when the music is energetic, or soothing when it turns moody ; it also leaves space for creative involvement from his friends. A promising first album. - Indie Jazz |
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¨ From the first spare notes of this extraordinary recording of piano and percussion music, it is clear that Dana Reason is finding her own creative voice, without paying heed to the boundaries that define jazz, classical, or new music....what emerges sometimes delicately, sometimes boldly, from the sympathetic interplay of piano and percussion is less a declaration of virtuosity and style than an unfolding of meaning and an expression of that ineffable quality, musical integrity. Derk Richardson |
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Glenn Spearman's G-Force
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¨...may well be a creative peek for Glenn Spearman... G-Force is indeed a powerhouse quartet ...the music has ample harmonic depth, touches of sublime beauty and thorny blasts, sometimes all in a space of moments...does present Spearman in a composerly role, one that reveals such a depth of ideas that he begins looking in my mind like Pharoah Sanders: a kernel of musical genious that has to be reckoned with...¨ Andrew Bartlett |
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¨ The mirror with a memory ¨ integrates the dissonances and the noise of new music with jazz, making it a tantalizing musical adventure, an open door into a labyrinth of improvising, deep groove swing and surreal playfulness. ...cinematic in imagery and catholic in concept.... confirms Ron Samworth as leading-edge composer. Laurence Svirchev |
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Joëlle Léandre
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..the trio explores various ways of constructing a spontaneous, flexible chamber music out of small, finely chiseled details. Their almost telepathic quickness finds them altering dynamics and voicings at the blink of an eye, and sparks fly from their symbiotic, push/pull interplay... Art Lange |
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¨ from note one of this cd, there is a palpable sense of communication between Crispell and Houle, remarquable because this is their first musical encounter.
`Any terrain tumultuous` examined from any contour, is a major work.
¨ Laurence Svirchev |
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Talking Pictures Ron Samworth : guitar / effects |
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| ¨ four of the more important figures from the city's ( Vancouver ) creative music community... ¨ Mark Miller An unconventional group that explores the realms of jazz, new music, free improv, hendrixian skronk and art film soundtracks, no subtitles... |
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a radical questioning of all things musical, all things ¨trio¨ and most things sonic...
¨Andrew Bartlett
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Charles Papasoff
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¨ Papasoff is, on the basis of this stimulating recording, one of the top baritonists around in the 90`s .¨ Scott Yanow ¨ The most impressive Canadian baritone player... wild and wonderful. ¨ Mark Miller |
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