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This Shape of Jazz
http://thisshapeofjazz.blogspot.com/
This Shape of Jazz: My writings about different albums primarily from the 1960s of the avant-garde. However, I may touch on titles pertaining to bop, hard-bop, soul jazz and post bop as I find these to be equally as important to me.
My intentions of the blog is to be a tool to expand my concepts and writings about artists and recordings. Hoping it will allow me to further digest more music and have my thoughts be sustained digitally.
- Added on: Jan 8th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Matthew
- Listed in: Jazz Music
- Tags: american jazz ornette coleman free jazz avant garde new sound
Recent Posts
AACM on Do the Math
Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus recently posted on specific AACM recordings on his Do The Math blog. In 11 Canonical AACM Performances he mentions a handful of recordings I'm familiar with which was great to read his expert opinion/description of them....
"Gigantomachia" - The Naked Future
ESP-Disk brings us a great treat. From my city of Portland, OR, The Naked Future is a powerful quartet with a lot to say. The Naked Future first caught my attention when ESP-Disk posted a feature on Arrington de Dionyso on their Facebook page. I r...
"Conference of the Birds" - Dave Holland
I can easily feel comfortable saying this is my absolute favorite album released in the early 70s. I discovered Conference of the Birds late winter of this year and I have been consistently listening to it at least three times a week. I really cann...
PDX Jazz Fest 2010 Lineup
Received a notice in my inbox yesterday about the lineup for the Alaskan Airlines/Horizon Air PDX Jazz Festival. WOW! Every year they always get a handful of headliners that blow me away.I'm looking forward to Pharoah Sanders and the Dave Holland Qu...
Béla, Edgar, and Friends
A little off topic here, I had the chance to attend the Oregon Symphony at the Schnitzer Concert Hall on Saturday conducted by Carlos Kalmar. Along with a couple compositions by Dvorák and Suppé, Chris Thile sat with the symphony to perform his Ma...
More Blue Note on NBC... Again.
Someone over at NBC loves old jazz record covers, especially Blue Note -- with good reason of course. This caught my eye on the Tonight Show last Friday night....
