Engaging composer, solid and versatile trumpet player, and alchemic bandleader - these are the three pillars of young musician Greg Glassman’s attack, and it has all come t…
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Recently I was re-listening to Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell’s complex recording Mu on the French Actuel label, probably the most famous of all trumpet-percussion duet…
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Mysteries in jazz come in all different shapes and sizes. There’s the outright ornery deflection of Cecil Taylor’s stage presence, distracting attention from his essential …
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Grand ideas, indeed - this well-paced volume from pianist Armen Donelian, featuring eight of his back-of-the-hand-to-the-forehead, deep-sigh compositions, focuses primarily…
24 Jun
Axiom by John O'Gallagher
Musicians are rarely students of physics, and vice versa I would imagine, as the mechanics of science and of soul are hardly ever considered in the same thought. This is a …
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