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Myra Melford’s Be Bread -][- The Whole Tree Gone – [Firehouse 12, 2010 – Revisited] –

26 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Alternative Jazz, Big Band (Modern Ensemble), Creative Music, Flux Music Essentials, Improvised Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Music, Post-Bop, Progressive Jazz, What's New?

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Myra Melford's Be Bread, The Whole Tree Gone

Myra Melford’s Be Bread, The Whole Tree Gone

Myra Melford’s Be Bread -][- The Whole Tree Gone –Mp3– [Firehouse 12, 2010 – Revisited]

Inspired by mevlana rumi’s poems, eastern sounds & wisdom and western modernism/avant-gardism, Myra Melford’s compositions reach to a higher standart again. on horns cuong vu and ben goldberg, on strings brandon ross (intriguing soprano guitar sounds) and stomu takeishi suit well with melford’s cecil tayloresque percussive piano style. all originals are complex but accessible. even, some tracks are “catchy” (1st track “through the same gate”, third one “night” and the sixth “i see a horizon”).

As rumi said “intricate sounds, not words. i catch what i can’t quite make out. fire burning down along the roots, as well as the branches. the whole tree gone”… “the fire music” (like the legendary archie shepp album) burn you as well… the whole sextet well done… -[Ali Haluk | Customer Review | Amazon.com]-

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Angelica Sanchez Quintet -][- WIRES & MOSS – [Clean Feed Records, 2012] –

06 Saturday Oct 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Alternative Jazz, Creative Music, Eclectic, Improvised Music, Jazz, Music, New Music, Progressive Jazz, What's New?

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Angelica Sanchez, Avant-Garde, Clean Feed Records, Composer, Drew Gress, Educator, Marc Ducret, Pianist, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby

“In her piano playing as well as her compositions Angelica Sanchez seeks out the lyrical heartbeat within any avant-garde storm.” – The New York Times/Chinen

Angelica Sanchez Quintet, WIRES & MOSS

Angelica Sanchez Quintet -][- WIRES & MOSS –Mp3– [Clean Feed Records, 2012] –

It’s no longer possible, today, to exclude the name of pianist and composer/improviser Angelica Sanchez when discussing the New York jazz scene. With her fluid, loose and lyrical style, contrasting with an energetic and avant-gardist approach, she seems to be at the center of a hurricane, dealing with poetic feelings and magmatic chaos. Somehow combining the influences of Herbie Hancock and Cecil Taylor, in her previous solo album, “A Little House”, Sanchez used a John Cage favorite instrument, the toy piano. Not to play children lullabies, but to introduce ironic and ambiguous shadows in her music, reminiscent of her memories of the horror movies she saw in a younger age, with soundtracks using that tool to maximum effect. If the toy piano was, then, her ghost-in-the-machine, now the same role is performed by Marc Ducret’s guitar. Continue reading →

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Hot Club of Detroit Adds Avant-Garde, Pop and Groove Based Elements to the Django Reinhardt Resurgence on New Mack Avenue Records Release, Junction, Available August 14

24 Thursday May 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Instrumental Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, New Music, Press Release, What's New?

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Album Features New Bassist Shawn Conley, Saxophonist Jon Irabagon, and Special Guests, Vocalist Cyrille Aimée and Saxophonist/Clarinetist Andrew Bishop

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Hot Club of Detroit, JUNCTION

Following up It’s About That Time, Night Town and the eponymous 2006 debut Hot Club of Detroit – Hot Club of Detroit expands its sonic and compositional horizons with Junction. Retaining its original lineup of reeds, two guitars, accordion, upright bass and no drums, this is the band’s fourth release for Mack Avenue Records. There are personnel changes, however, and for the first time, the Hot Club of Detroit is joined (on three tracks) by a vocalist: French musician Cyrille Aimée, a native of Django Reinhardt’s hometown and third-place winner of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition. Continue reading →

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