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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: Waxwing, A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Monday, August 3, 2015. Waxwing, A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists. Waxwing is a three-member cooperative group consisting of Tony Wilson on electric guitar, Peggy Lee on cello and Jon Bentley on reeds and multi-instruments. It's a Vancouver-based outfit that gives us some very intriguing music on their album A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists. A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists. Labels: compositional improvisational chamber jazz. Modern chamber jazz for guitar cello reeds. Grego's First ...
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: October 2014
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Friday, October 31, 2014. Richard Pinhas, Oren Ambarchi, Tikkun. When you hear music that corresponds to music you hear in your own head there is a special connection. One of those musics is certainly the album Tikkun. Cuneiform CD and DVD set). It is one of two exceptional recent duet outings featuring guitarist Richard Pinhas. For this one he is joined by guitarist Oren Ambarchi, notable for his work with Sunn. Ambarchi and Pinhas achieve liftoff immediately and they jo...
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: February 2015
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Friday, February 27, 2015. John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James, Jack-knife and Monkey Business Reissue. Throughout the period and after has been a long association with lyricist-guitarist Richard Palmer-James, beginning from their schooldays in 1962 and continuing apace. We have some of the best fruits of that collaboration with two of their albums re-released and packaged as a special 2-CD set, namely Jack-knife. 1978) and Monkey Business. 1972-1997) (Primary Purpose 001).
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: Kenny Carr, Idle Talk
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Kenny Carr, Idle Talk. A guitarist of the electric persuasion, in the jazz camp and well-situated there as a real player after Berklee, ten years with Ray Charles, and now a burgeoning solo career. Idle Talk. Zoozazz Music) is not his first album. There are several others I am afraid I have missed. But what matters is that this one comes at you with a good band, a sound, and guitar playing that is smart, contemporary, yet rooted. Subscribe to: Po...
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: Brad Allen Williams, Lamar
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Brad Allen Williams, Lamar. On the docket today is electric guitarist Brad Allen Williams fronting a contemporary organ trio with the album Lamar. Sojourn). It's Brad's debut as leader. He is joined by some serious musical personalities in Hammond organist Pat Bianchi (whose music I have covered here) and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who needs no introduction, as the saying goes. Foremost here is the guitar (and electric sitar for one number) of Brad Al...
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: Kyrbgrinder, Chronicles of A Dark Machine
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Kyrbgrinder, Chronicles of A Dark Machine. If you like a power trio that plays a very hard and involved metal with a dark shadow to it, you will probably like the UK band Kyrbgrinder and their third album Chronicals of A Dark Machine. It's the relentless onslaught of power metal from three very accomplished, locked-in players that wins the day for me. And the vocals add to it. Labels: contemporary power trio excellence. Rock on the heavy edge.
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: Max Johnson Trio, Something Familiar
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Friday, July 31, 2015. Max Johnson Trio, Something Familiar. Blossoming bassist-composer-bandleader Max Johnson gives us his best album to date with Something Familiar. Fresh Sound New Talent). It's a trio with Kirk Knuffke on trumpet, Ziv Ravitz on drums and of course Max on bass. The trio is especially well-matched and very much a three-way affair. It is a real joy to hear this! Labels: avant rooted jazz bass. Modern jazz trio freebop. New star jazz bassists. I cover ot...
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: August 2015
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Monday, August 31, 2015. Michael Bisio, Accortet. It has been a long road for bassist, composer, leader Michael Bisio. I measured the span of his experiences, or rather he told of them to me in my extensive interview with him published a few years ago in All About Jazz. Look it up on their site). And yet of course the road rolls on, with some exceptional interactions of late with piano master Matt Shipp and, in a CD due out this September 11th, Accortet. AUM Fidelity 092/...
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: June 2015
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Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog. Monday, June 29, 2015. Honeybird, Out Comes Woman. Some music is beyond category. It fits in a number of pegholes but not comfortably. Honeybird (aka multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Monique Mizhrahi) is that, on her album Out Comes Woman. I suppose it all qualifies as a sort of alt music if you must chose. These are songs, good ones, and they partake of a cornucopia of elements to get what she is after. Honeybird out comes woman gapplegate guitar and bass review.
