Monday, June 20, 2022

Juneteenth Music

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 This post is not a review but to tell you about two albums that lovers of small group Creative Black Music should enjoy. Giant Step Arts, ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Wadada Leo Smith Tells Stories with String Quartet & Conversations With Drummers

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  Wadada Leo Smith is quite the musical adventurer with a fertile mind and desire to continue to grow as a composer, arranger, and musician ...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Piano Music with Deep Memories & Music of the Natural World & Inspired by the Pandemic

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  Like many musicians from Eastern Bloc countries (in this instance, Ukraine) pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi first studied classica...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

What I'm Listening To (2)

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 I continue my journey through the new releases of 2022. Guitarist and composer Gilad Hekselman started work on his new recording (his debu...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

What I'm Listening To (1)

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Pianist and composer David Virelles , born and raised in Cuba, moved to Canada in the early 2000s at the behest of musician. Jane Bunnett. W...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The Digital Side of Newvelle Recoirds

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 Over the past year, the vinyl-only, subscription series, record label Newvelle Records has been issuing digital versions of albums from it...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

A Sonic Taste of "Thisness" + Classic "Thatness"

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  In 2015, guitarist, composer, and conceptualist Miles Okazaki built a new ensemble which, ultimately, took its name Trickster from its 2...