Jazz
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Jazz improvisation lends itself naturally to electronics. That so few artists in the genre have chosen to add them to the mix is, depending on your perspective, either a missed opportunity or a happily dodged bullet. Chicago’s ADT has a new album that will move more than a few improv lovers from the second camp…
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At a time when much of the developed world was growing increasingly worried about Japan’s emerging economic strength, a consumer electronics company called Nakamichi Corp., Ltd. began to establish itself as a respected manufacturer of high-end tape machines. Its introduction of the three-head cassette deck in the early 1970s was a radical step forward. Previously,…
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Quin Kirchner’s debut as a band leader landed last week. The Chicago scene veteran has produced a monster disc that has to be heard. Best new jazz album of 2018 so far. Kirchner answered a couple of questions for a post I put up on All About Jazz. Here’s a full transcript. How has the…
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Anytime you hear the words improvisational and jazz side by side, the odds are pretty good they’ll soon be accompanied by one or more of feverish, frenetic and frenzied. It’s true that the music offers more range than its given credit for. But you’ve got to dig pretty deep. Belgium’s Kabas will make you glad…
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No matter how adventurous your taste in music, there is something oddly unsettling about albums that feature multiple styles. You may be entirely comfortable pressing play on your old CD copy of Tom Waits’ Bone Machine right after your favourite Alice Coltrane record. But put both genres on the same disc, and we can’t get…
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Andrzej Nowak has been blogging about free improv music since the end of 2015 over at the Spontaneous Music Tribune. As often happens among those active in modern music circles, he decided to take a step further and release music independently. Nowak partnered with The Multikulti Project on a Spontaneous Music Tribune Series, a project…
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