All too often, recordings are produced which offer homage to a style without offering anything new. They may be well conceived and played, but without something to distingu…
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The sign of a true musician is one who assimilates a broad diversity of influences, and creates a distinctive voice and personal musical language. Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinke…
The website says: "Leo Records is a small independent company producing highly original, innovative, improvisation-based new music; music that refuses to be submitte…
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With the use of Fender Rhodes and analogue synthesizers, Matthew Bourne’s début recording, the electric dr m owes much to Sextant-era Herbie Hancock. But with…
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While often regarded as an Avante-gardist, Archie Shepp’s gruff interpretation of Ben Webster was always less abstract than contemporaries like Pharaoh Saunders. Leaving hi…