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Gapplegate Music Review
http://gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com
The Gapplegate Music Review covers new and interesting releases via original daily
reviews on Free and Mainstream Jazz, Modern Claasical, Progressive Rock and World Music. The blogger, Grego Applegate Edwards, is an acclaimed music critic for Cadence Magazine and a musician and writer of long standing.
- Added on: Nov 9th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: grego edwards
- Listed in: Jazz Classical
- Tags: World music progressive rock free jazz modern classical mainstream jazz music cd reviews
Recent Posts
Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, David Mott: Live, 1999
Although today's recording was captured ten years ago at Canada's notable Guelph Jazz Festival in Ontario, it has the in-the-moment relevance of any inspired improvisational gathering. Part of that has to do with the excellence of the musicians. Bass...
Albert Ayler\'s Clangorous "Bells," 1965
Albert Ayler's mature phase freaked more than a few listeners when heard in 1964-65. His folksy march tunes and quasi-spiritual heads were played with a kind of over-the-top vibrato and exaggerated zeal that were rather unprecedented in the music. Hi...
A New Recording of Messiaen\'s "Poems pour Mi"
Olivier Messiaen was an extraordinary composer by any standard. His was an exceptional talent; his music combined an extra-sensory sensitivity to the orchestrated potential of the music in his head with a harmonically and rhythmically unique stance t...
Pianist Julio Resende Puts A New Shine on Mainstream Jazz
In recent months thanks to Cleanfeed, Ayler Records and the kindness of Rodrigo Amado, I've gained a new appreciation of the Portuguese jazz scene today. It's vital. Julio Resende's new CD Assim Falava Jazzatustra (Cleanfeed) brings that home once ag...
New Music from Mario Diaz de Leon
Composer Mario Diaz de Leon ignores the boundaries between modern concert-classical, electronics, free improvisation, metal and noise. His recent Enter Houses Of (Tzadik) shows this clearly, albiet with the emphasis on the first two categories. It is...
Is John Zorn\'s New Music "Easy Listening?"
John Zorn is a musical rebel. Throughout his career he has had a certain restless view of genre, never content to get pigeonholed as a writer-performer in "X" category. So he has created music in the concert modernity, the avant garde, bop, improv, f...
