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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 Caden
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Stephen Gauci, Notable Tenor Saxist and Bandleader
Stephen Gauci has one of those well-developed, well-burnished freebop tenor sax styles. He has been making a number of records under his own name and with the Michael Bisio group, mostly for CIMP Records. We've looked at some of them on this and the ...
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Drummer Mike Reed Helps Define Modern Chicago Jazz
Today, more interesting new Chicago jazz, this time headed by drummer Mike Reed and his People, Places & Things ensemble. About Us (482 Music) brings to light the second in a projected three disk trilogy covering a kind of homage to Chicagoland's...
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Appealing Raw Avant Freebop from The Other Tet
The Other Tet? Yes. It's Bill Lowe (perhaps aptly) on the bass trombone and tuba, diving into the murky depths of those instruments with a burry sound that provides atmosphere as well as soul. On the tuba, a modern-day Ray Draper comes to mind; on th...

