Moppa Elliott
Bassist, composer, and bandleader Moppa Elliott approaches the entire breadth of jazz music with equal parts reverence and playful subversion. These attitudes are present on his latest two releases,...
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Bassist Norris Jones, better known as Sirone, was born in Atlanta in 1940; he died in Berlin in 2009. Though he never became a mainstream figure, within the world of avant-garde jazz from the 1960s...
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With a name like Abhorrent Expanse and album art full of both human and demonic skulls, one might feel pretty safe judging this book by its cover. The only thing left to determine is which niche of...
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Photo: Peter Gannushkin Guitarist Brandon Seabrook is always a thrill to hear. His jangling, jagged lines and sudden eruptions keep the listener on their toes, without ever being noisy for its own...
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In 2019, the Southern Lord label began reissuing the discography of the legendary noise/metal/improv trio Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, with the albums The Tribe, Black Axis, Der Abend der Schwarzen...
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BA Podcast 49: Peter Brotzmann
It’s true: After a three-month hiatus, the Burning Ambulance podcast is back, with an interview with legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann! Peter Brötzmann first emerged onto the global scene in the...
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Continuing to pay homage to legendary noise/metal/improv trio Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Southern Lord Records have now reissued the next two albums in a five-album series, 1992’s Der Abend Der...
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In the narrative of rock history, there’s a special place reserved for the almighty power trio. While the best known representations of the ensembles might be Cream or the groups led by Jimi Hendrix,...
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Though they’re far from a household name, those in the know have long elevated guitarist Caspar Brötzmann’s avant-rock power trio Massaker to legendary status, with Julian Cope calling them “the trio...
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BA Podcast 32: Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs, seen at right in the photo above, is the bassist for the avant-rock/jazz/metal/dub trio Harriet Tubman, whose new album The Terror End of Beauty is out now and sweeping up rave reviews...
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BA Podcast 15: Dave Burrell
Episode 15 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with avant-garde jazz pianist Dave Burrell, who is being honored at the 2018 Vision Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn and who performed...
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William Hooker
by Phil Freeman; photo by Peter Gannushkin Drummer William Hooker has been around since the 1970s and has played with everyone from saxophonists David Murray and David S. Ware (on his 1977 debut, …Is...
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by Todd Manning Combining death metal with a distinct jazz influence is often treated as a radical notion, but if the metal community is being perfectly honest with itself, these two genres have been...
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King Woman & Mastery
Flenser Records seems to occupy two niches when it comes to their releases. Lately, a significant portion of their output has revolved around a nexus of postpunk and Goth, and a willingness to...
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Best Metal Of 2014: 20-16
Our week-long countdown of the best metal albums of 2014 continues with #s 20-16. Let’s go! 20. Machine Head, Bloodstone & Diamonds (Buy It) Machine Head have now made four good to great studio...
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The Hedvig Mollestad Trio
The Hedvig Mollestad Trio, the heaviest jazz-rock outfit Norway’s ever produced, will release their third album, Enfant Terrible, on April 11 via the Rune Grammofon label. The group, consisting of...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 10-1
Well, we’ve made it to the end of the official Burning Ambulance countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! Here are the Top Ten. 10. JOE HENDERSON. The key saxophonist of Blue Note’s mid-’60s...
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A List Of 50 Jazz Albums
by Phil Freeman Apparently April 30 is International Jazz Day. So as a way of subverting the canon-building exercises that are sure to go on across the jazz internet today, I’ve come up with a list of...
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Wes Montgomery
Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon I’ve only recently started listening to Wes Montgomery (who would have turned 89 this past Tuesday). My knowledge of jazz guitar...
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Interview: Harriet Tubman
Ascension (Sunnyside) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon This is a very New York record. Laid to tape over a decade ago and finally issued thanks to the folks at Sunnyside (who don’t seem all that...
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