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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 Franks
Frank Lowe The Loweski (ESP-Disk) Frank Wright Quartet Blues for Albert Ayler (ESP-Disk) by Phil Freeman Frank Lowe‘s Black Beings is one of my favorite ESP-Disk releases. Coming toward the end of the...
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Darius Jones Quartet
Book of Mae’bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) (AUM Fidelity) Buy it from the label by Phil Freeman Alto saxophonist Darius Jones (who I profiled in Burning Ambulance #2) has performed with different...
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The Thing
Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound CD) Buy it from Amazon The Thing & Barry Guy Metal! (NoBusiness 2LP) Buy it from the label by Phil Freeman The Norwegian/Swedish...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 30-21
Our week-long countdown reaches its midpoint, as we offer you #s 30-21 of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists Ever. And don’t miss a bonus list at the end – Darius Jones‘ five favorite saxophonists! Shall we...
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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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Interview: Joe Morris
by Phil Freeman Joe Morris has been a crucial figure on the global free jazz/free music scene since the 1980s. Starting out as a guitarist, he expanded to bass, and has worked with many of the major...
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Charles Gayle
Look Up (ESP-Disk) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon I interviewed Charles Gayle once. It was nearly a dozen years ago, in the front room of his tiny Lower East Side apartment. We sat across from each...
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Grass Roots
Grass Roots (AUM Fidelity) Buy it from the label by Phil Freeman Alto saxophonist Darius Jones is back, and once again, he’s playing with a totally different set of musicians than on any previous...
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Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson
by Phil Freeman Saxophonists Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson performed as a duo for the first time ever at the Vancouver Jazz Festival in July 2011. (The photo above is by Peter Gannushkin; to see...
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Roscoe Mitchell
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA Friday, June 7 by Leonard Pierce Photo by Daniel Sheehan; see more at EyeShotJazz.com At this stage in his career, Roscoe Mitchell—who did pioneering and irreplaceable work...
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Black Host –“Test Sunday”
Here’s a video for “Test-Sunday,” by the new jazz group Black Host, directed by Mario Tahi Lathan: Black Host is a quintet featuring alto saxophonist Darius Jones, guitarist Brandon Seabrook,...
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Interview: Rich Halley
The phrase “best kept secret” is always a little bit insulting to the musicians it’s used to describe, as though they go out of their way to remain unheard. That said, Rich Halley really is one of the...
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Mike Pride
Photo: Eliseo Cardona Drummer Mike Pride has two new CDs out. This is not a surprise; he’s highly prolific, and has released two other albums this year already—The Exterminating Angel, a set of duos...
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Jazz For Hippies: The Charles Lloyd Quartet In 1968
Between 1998 and 2003, I interviewed the late saxophonist David S. Ware several times. He had made his debut on Columbia in 1998 with Go See The World, and I visited him and his group in the studio...
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Dead Neanderthals: This Story’s Not Ending Badly Just Yet
It’s been a productive year for Dutch saxophone-drums duo Dead Neanderthals, coming off the March release of their fourth album Polaris on Utech Records, and the recent limited-edition self-released...
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Only Deathcore Is Real: Conjonctive
Years ago, I read a description of saxophonist Albert Ayler‘s music as being a total love-hate proposition: you’re either immediately blown away (no pun intended), or it sends you right out of the...
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The Best Jazz Albums Of 2013: #20-16
This year, Burning Ambulance is publishing two year-end lists, one covering jazz and one covering rock/metal. Here is the second installment of our countdown of the 25 best jazz albums of 2013. (Click...
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The Metal Side Of Joe Morris
Slobber Pup: L-R Joe Morris, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi, Jamie Saft New England-based guitarist Joe Morris is best known for playing fleet, clean lines that combine bebop speed and precision with free...
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A Postcard From A Journey Just Begun: James Brandon Lewis
Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis‘s second album, Divine Travels, is out this week. (Buy it from Amazon.) It’s a trio date, with a superb rhythm section—William Parker on bass, and Gerald Cleaver...
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