Archive for June, 2010

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Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 5

Things could be looking up for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. by Pico It’s been a whole three months since we last discussed a batch of sparkling new releases that are targeted for wider audiences. That’s such a long span that a few of the half dozen records yakked aboutRead More

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Fred Anderson (1929-2010): An Appreciation

AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File by S. Victor Aaron Fred Anderson, a forward thinking tenor saxophonist for more than six decades and a major force in Chicago’s vital jazz scene, died Thursday following a heart attack. He was 81 years old. What I’ve found so remarkable about Anderson isn’t so muchRead More

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Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 4 (Unhinged edition)

The thrash-jazz music of Little Women is well off the wall. by S. Victor It’s time again to take a walk on the wide side. Anybody who plays that unpredictable, elaborate and passionate music called jazz has my eternal respect. If they play it in new and unconventional ways, well,Read More

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Nadav Remez – So Far (2011)

A young Israeli just beginning to make his imprint on New York’s competitive jazz scene, guitarist and composer Nadav Remez is a grad of both Berklee and the New England Conservatory of Music. With the help of Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, he issued his first album, a powerful calling cardRead More

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John Coltrane Quartet – ‘Africa/Brass’ (1961)

Even decades later, ‘Africa/Brass’ still casts John Coltrane – and this is saying something – in a new, insistently inventive light.

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Sarah Manning – Dandelion Clock (2010)

by S. Victor Aaron “Finding your own voice” is such an overused phrase these days. That especially holds true in the music business, where such rote advice is handed out like doubloons at a Mardi Gras parade. The young, alto tenor saxophone specialist Sarah Manning has heard those words herself,Read More

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The Nels Cline Singers – Initiate (2010)

Multiple personality disorder is considered an affliction among the mentally disabled, but when it comes to the artistry of that unquenchable, multidimensional guitarist Nels Cline, it’s the very thing that makes him such an unpredictably compelling musician. Each time I’ve audited a new record of his, like his celebration ofRead More