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A frequent response to negative criticism, but one I don't really understand. "They played a blues in F. Then a variation on rhyth...

Laurent Dehors - b cl, contrabass cl, two more straight clarinets I don't know the keys of, ts, ss, hca, jew's harp, bagpipes Matthe...

Ethan Iverson - p ( blog ) Reid Anderson - b David King - d [Yes, this post is almost a month overdue. Consider it a prelude to The Bad Plus...

Terell Stafford - tp, flh Gary Versace - p, acc Dennis Irwin - b, cl Matt Wilson - d ( myspace | website ) A few days ago, Jeff Albert wrot...

Mark Turner - ts Mikkel Ploug - g ( myspace ) Jeppe Skovbakke - b Sean Carpio - d Joachim Badenhorst - ts On what could very well have been ...

The new issue of Point of Departure is out, with its usual payload of interesting columns. Travellin' Light gives Taylor Ho Bynum anot...

It Is Not Mean... responds to and elaborates upon a comment I had left on his blog (also see Jeremy Stuart's comment on De Saussure): ...

Any band with two girls (cellist/xylophonist and keyboardist, plus some guy on drums) has my immediate sympathy, but, in this case, that dis...

Teun Verbruggen - d ( website | myspace ) Mauro Pawlowski - g Jozef Dumoulin - Fender Rhodes The Ankh is a fabulous album (apparently , i...

The album covers, the period recording equipment, the strict adherence to the rules of the genre , or rather, the codification of the epoch,...

Bamboozled was shot in Digital Video, which makes the image flat, shiny, cheap-looking. Devoid of texture, it loses gravitas without reall...

It's unbelievable that Jaki Byard's 1999 murder, in his own home, remains unsolved. Peter Watrous described him as "one of jaz...

Tim Berne - as Ralph Alessi - tp Craig Taborn - p Drew Gress - b Tom Rainey - d It's hard not to expect great things from the above line...

I went to this concert almost randomly. Over here, a Habib Koïté will play a cultural institution like Flagey, which classifies him as Worl...

Like a rusty dagger dragged across new silk, each makes the other seem more miraculous: how does the former not fall apart? how can the latt...

Octurn ( myspace | website ) Bo Van Der Werf - bs Magic Malik - fl, voc Guillaume Orti - as Laurent Blondiau - tp, flh Nelson Veras - g Fab...

The early 80s is also when the performance and cheap housing possibilities for free jazz musicians pretty much dried up in lower Manhattan. ...

The Free Music Festival has gained in comfort since its move a few years ago from some back-alley theatre in the center of Antwerpen to the...