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SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN VI

Booklet Credits Nate Wooley: trumpet and amplifier Samara Lubelski, C. Spencer Yeh: violins Chris Corsano, Ben Hall, Ryan Sawyer: drums Susan Alcorn: pedal steel guitar Julien Desprez, Ava Mendoza: electric […]

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Slipknots Through a Looking Glass

Credits Eric Revis Bass Kris Davis Piano Bill McHenry Tenor Saxophone Darius Jones Alto Saxophone Chad Taylor Drums, Mbira Justin Faulkner Drums on Tracks 1 and 3 1 Baby Renfro […]

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ACCELERATE EVERY VOICE

Credits Kyoko Kitamura voice Michael Mayo voice, looper Raquel Acevedo Klein voice Steven Hrycelak vocal bass Kari Francis vocal percussion Cory Smythe piano, electronics Many muddled accelerations shape this: beginning […]

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Diatom Ribbons

Artist Statement by Kris Davis Liner Notes by David R. Adler Credits 1. DIATOM RIBBONS 6:20 JD Allen Tenor Saxophone Tony Malaby Tenor Saxophone Trevor Dunn Acoustic Bass Val Jeanty […]

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Orphic Machine

Credits Recorded September 2013 Sear Sound, New York Released March 24, 2015 BAG Production Records / Royal Potato Family Carla Kihlstedt: Voice & Violin Ben Goldberg: B Flat & Contra […]

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Short-Sighted Dream Colossus

Credits Recorded August 9, 2010 New, Improved Recording, Oakland, CA Released September 16, 2014 SAZi Records/BAG Production John Dieterich: Guitars Ben Goldberg: Clarinet Scott Amendola: Drums Eli Crews: Engineer John […]

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Devadip Carlos Santana

The Swing of Delight Columbia C236590 by Spottswood Erving Round, pure, golden, delicious: Santana’s guitar still sounds ripe for the picking, but that’s nothing new. Nor is his affiliation with […]

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Oregon (2)

In Performance Elektra 9E-304 by Spottswood Erving At the start of the second disc of this live double LP, George Shultz, Oregon’s manager, asks the audience, “How do you like […]

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Brian Eno

“I’m such a lucky person. I don’t know how, but everything happens to me just as I want it to. What’s funny is I don’t even believe that some people […]

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Keith Jarrett

Nude Ants ECM- 2-1171 by Spottswood Erving The Place: a pie-shaped slice of basement in the Big Apple, where one can hear the 7th Avenue subway rumble by during breaks. […]

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Herbie Hancock (2)

Monster Columbia JC 36415 By Spottswood Erving Another gruesome pop disc from Hancock. This one plods on (thump) and on (thump) and on (thwack) with the overproduced gusto of a […]

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Defunkt

Defunkt Hannibal 1301 by Spottswood Erving These days, serious jazz cats who decide to play dance music are—take themselves to be—as rebellious and avant-garde as the ones who decided not […]