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Ahmad Jamal, Now and Then
It’s strange, the ways the arc of jazz history can bend. Twenty yea… more »
Reactionary Tango: Steve Swal…
Around 1960, a bass-playing sophomore at Yale got a call to do a concert … more »
Gerald Cleaver and Michiel Br…
In most any genre, there are times when musicians develop similar ideas i… more »
ESP-Disk’: Internationa…
ESP-Disk’ might be the most revered and reviled of historically imp… more »
100 Years of Woody Herman
In the later 1930s, when swing bands ruled American pop, Woody Herman … more »
The Unknown Dave Brubeck
Naturally enough, obituary writers focused on the milestones in Dave Brub… more »
Trans-Global Expression: John…
Capsule jazz histories tell us European harmony and African rhythm came t… more »
The Heartbreaking Beauty of C…
It’s autumn in New York, and as I always do at this time of year, I… more »
Norse to the Future: ECM…
Almost since its inception in 1969, Germany’s ECM Records has featu… more »
Masabumi Kikuchi: Unlearning …
Masabumi Kikuchi is one of the oddest modern jazz pianists. As the Bad Pl… more »
Impulse’s Deep Bench: T…
There was always more to Impulse than John Coltrane. As part of the label… more »
New This Week: Sharon Van Ett…
OK! Are you guys ready to get bummed out? Because it’s the week bef… more »
New This Week: Lana Del Rey, …
Hey, have you guys heard anything about this Lana Del Rey person? I feel … more »
New This Week: Kathleen Edwar…
Hello! Welcome! It starts with a trickle, but always ends in a deluge: th… more »
New This Week: Keepaway, The …
HELLO! Welcome back! 2012! Here we are! Doing it in the 0-1-2! This will … more »
Label Profile: Clean Feed Rec…
File under: Free jazz, post-bop, improvisation Flagship acts: Ken Vanderm… more »
New Jazz This Week
In the jazz world, 2012 is starting off strong, with some late 2011 arriv… more »
2011 Jazz: Echoing the …
It says something about the timeless state of modern jazz that one of 201… more »
Bill Frisell’s Pan-Amer…
Bill Frisell, the singular and much admired/emulated jazz guitarist, is a… more »
RIP Jazz Great Paul Motian, 1…
The jazz world mourned a great loss on Nov. 22, when legendary drummer Pa… more »
Label Profile: Light in the A…
File under: Revitalized funk, folk and rock records from the States and a… more »
Mr. Mellifluous: A Listener…
Most jazz fans recognize Benny Golson’s tunes, even if they don… more »
Julius Hemphill: Economical O…
In a more perfect world, Julius Hemphill (1938-95) would be better rememb… more »
Shorty Rogers and the Migrati…
Some good music never goes out of style: Jazz fans everywhere revere 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 »