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31 Days Of Album Reviews #28: David Weiss, “Snuck In”
DAVID WEISS AND POINT OF DEPARTURE Snuck In (Sunnyside) If you name your band after one of pianist Andrew Hill’s best albums, you better come out swinging. This quintet (which has no pianist, by the...
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Many Arms
Missing Time (Engine Studios) by Phil Freeman Back in 1981, Black Flag and their label SST got involved in a lawsuit with the distributor Unicorn (owned by MCA) related to the group’s album Damaged. As...
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Luis Lopes’ Humanization 4tet
Electricity (Ayler) by Phil Freeman Two Portuguese musicians, guitarist Luís Lopes and saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, are joined on this disc by bassist Aaron González and his drummer brother Stefan, both...
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The Blood Of Heroes
The Blood of Heroes and Remain (Ohm Resistance) by Phil Freeman Buy The Blood of Heroes from Amazon Buy Remain from Amazon Bassist/producer Bill Laswell‘s discography may seem imposing at first glance,...
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Last Exit
Peter Brötzmann, saxophone; Sonny Sharrock, guitar; Bill Laswell, bass; Ronald Shannon Jackson, drums. Frankfurt Jazz Festival, 1986. Interview with Laswell coming very soon…
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Interview: Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell‘s discography, as producer and bassist, label head and general eye-of-the-storm, is vast and can be intimidating. Not all of it’s brilliant. His central concept of collision—taking...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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