Sadly, many will hear Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt's latest LP, Made Out of Sound, as "not-jazz," though it would be more aptly described as "not-not-jazz." In a better world, it would warrant above-the-fold reviews in Downbeat, or an appearance on David Sanborn's ...
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The breadth of Four Guitars Live gives lie to the false notion that agile, polytonal improv is necessarily without soul, is necessarily inaccessible. Rather, Four Guitars posits a human avant-garde music that the most conservative will recognize as virtuosic and revel ...
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The expressive avant-rock on 'The Circular Train' is a definitive introduction to one of the most uncompromising and inquisitive visions in creative music. Mendoza's thrilling melange of free jazz, blues, noise, classical training, and blazing experimental rock'n'roll ...
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