Starlicker – Double Demon

    Starlicker – Double Demon Delmark 2011 (2011) Rob Mazurek (cornet), John Herndon (percussion), and Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone) are deeply rooted in the Chicago and international avant-garde, jazz and post rock scenes. Starlicker expel sound with pervading energy and other-worldly delicacy. Rob Mazurek leads, composes for and performs with the critically acclaimed Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago…

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      Jim Holman – Explosion!

      Jim Holman – Explosion! Delmark DE 2014 Compact Disc (2012) Jazz pianist Jim Holman explodes on this straight ahead blowing date, his debut as leader. As a native of Chicago, Jim Holman has been performing in the city’s finest jazz clubs since he was sixteen. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh’s jazz studies program…

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        Anthony Braxton – Trio And Duet

        Anthony Braxton – Trio And Duet Sackville SK 3007 Compact Disc No musician in jazz has enjoyed so complex a relationship with the form and its history as saxophonist Anthony Braxton. He has been celebrated and vilified as the music’s figure of radical advance (and still is), while regularly asserting his relationship with tradition by…

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          The Buddy Tate Quartet – Texas Tenor

          The great Texas tenor delivers the goods on this 1978 quartet session featuring the same rhythm?section of Wray Downes (piano), Dave Young (bass) and Pete Magadini (drums) that played with?Don Menza on last month?s reissue of Bones Blues (Sackville 4004). Tate?s first big break came in?1939 when at the age of 26 he joined the…

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