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A master of color with a knack for enchantment, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsk… more »
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Like Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark, the Thing is all about connectin… more »
Fred Anderson / Hamid Drake, …
The altogether remarkable Indian summer of veteran Chicago saxophonist Fr… more »
Cecil Taylor, Cell Walk For C…
Possibly the oddest and certainly the most uneven collection of Cecil Tay… more »
Exploding Star Orchestra, We …
From hard bop and free jazz to post-rock and electronica, globetrotting c… more »
Alexander Von Schlippenbach T…
Progressive European musicians seized upon the radical power of American … more »
Sam Rivers, Waves
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Revolutionary Ensemble, The P…
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Ornette Coleman, Sound Gramma…
Ornette Coleman's first new album in a decade, Sound Grammar, documen… more »
Cecil Taylor, The World Of Ce…
When maverick pianist Cecil Taylor recorded the sessions issued on his Ca… more »
Sun Ra, Lanquidity
Virtually no one in jazz could ignore the influence of rock and funk in t… more »
Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy’…
Cast aside by major labels and ignored by the media, numerous jazz titans… more »
Duke Ellington, The Afro-Eura…
Three years before his death and long after his most potent years were as… more »
McCoy Tyner, Echoes Of A Frie…
his powerful Philadelphia pianist came to prominence as a member of John … more »
Paul Motian Quintet, The Stor…
Anyone who knows Paul Motian's work in the landmark Bill Evans Trio o… more »
Cecil Taylor, Olu Iwa…
For many avant-garde jazz enthusiasts, the foremost attraction of Cecil T… more »
John Carter, Dauwhe
As John Carter's Dauwhe opens with Luis Peralta's waterphone, Cha… more »
Bill Dixon with Exploding Sta…
Cornetist and composer Rob Mazurek sets the controls for the heart of the… more »
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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal
By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »