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Tim Hagans: Subversive Jazz in Houston
Tim Hagans, Subversive Jazz DiverseWorks Theater Houston, Texas August 10, 2008
What would you expect when going to hear trumpeter Tim Hagans heading up a jazz show called Subversive Jazz, at DiverseWorks Theater in Houston Texas? Perhaps a free-flowing trumpet intro, followed by gongs and trap set? Sure. But when saxophonist Seth Paynter entered playing a Korean Tae Pyong So (or Nal Ra Ri, a copper-made trumpet attached to a wooden tube), while shooting off a cap gun, I began to take notice. Having lived in Korea myself, I recognized that sound (sans gun), but didn't expect to hear it in a jazz band. Nor did I expect to hear drummer Richard Cholakian ripping a drill saw into a plastic cup for the sound effect. And when bassist Thomas Helton made his introduction playing bowed bass notes very long... and very low, followed by the pulling of his strings until they almost came off of his bass, I knew we were in for a ride down into the nether regions of creative music...
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Mark Dresser: Telematics
By Mark Dresser
My sense of 'community' radically changed in 1998 while I was on tour in Europe. During a break after a soundcheck, I checked my email to read the devastating communication that beloved saxophonist Thomas Chapin was being taken off of life support. At that moment I was mentally transported from the locality of the club and connected to a larger group of family and friends of Thomas who were all experiencing the sad cognizance of the last few hours of his too short life. For the rest of the evening I was no longer just in that club, but in a larger space, connected to a larger community, bound by sadness. It was my first vivid experience that this mode of distance communication transcended time and place...
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Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners and At Town Hall
Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners (Keepnews Collection) Riverside-Concord 2008 Thelonious Monk At Town Hall (Keepnews Collection) Riverside-Concord 2008
It's time for some revisionist thinking on Monk's discography. Pride of place always seems to go to the earliest recordings when, undeniably, Monk debuted much of what was to be his small but indelible oeuvre. But were they really Monk's best records? Some tunes sounded rushed as the takes were short (still aimed at a singles market) and often weren't fully realized. A much better case can be made for Monk's Riverside albums as the pinnacle of his recorded legacy. And these two albums are cornerstones of that work...
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Misha Alperin / Ketil Bjornstad / Alon Yavnai -- Misha Alperin, Ketil Bjornstad and Alon Yavnai: Rolling Out New Piano Rolls
In his pioneering works on cognitive musicology and music psychology, the late Leonard B. Meyer defended the concept of redundancy in its promotion of musical understanding, and for its important role in listeners' emotional engagement. Although the use of leitmotivs and recurrent musical events undoubtedly help listeners construe a cohesive representation of the musical discourse, the research premise of finding how music evokes affective responses provides as many different theories as there are psychoanalytic schools and philosophies...
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Lenny Pickett playing Dance Music for Borneo Horns in Ekenas, Finland
Lenny Pickett and some Finnish friends RasePori Jazz Knipan, Ekenas, Finland July 27, 2008
Readers familiar with the New York experimental or art music scene will be familiar with Lenny Pickett from his residence there for the last 25 years, and his involvement with fellow musicians such as Kenny Werner and John Hadfield. West coast veterans may remember his shimmying and jiving (and sax soloing) with the 1970s funk Tower of Power consortium alongside Emilio Castillo and Stephen Doc Kupka. And surely everyone remembers those ear bending solo inserts from his long stay with the Saturday Night Live band...
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