Gapplegate Music Review

The blog covers releases in the areas of free and mainstream jazz, world music, "art" rock, and the blues. Classical coverage, which was originally here, continues on the Gapplegate Classical-Modern Review (see link on this page). Where are we right now and how did we get here? That's the concern.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet The Griots Speak, Destiny Calling

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  Nowadays you might find all kinds of combinations on the Jazz scene and much of the time there is good ground broken, productive music mad...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Sarah Weaver, Synthesis Series, Music of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations

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  Composer and sound artist/improviser Sarah Weaver is one of those vital creative forces at work today in the New Jazz and Improvisation re...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Owen Broder, Hodges: Front and Center, Volume 1

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  There is a truism in the idea that a tribute album can be progressive or regressive, in that returning to a specific artist or genre can h...

M'lumbo, The Summer of Endless Levitation

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  M'lumbo has been a band I always seem to gravitate towards. I've covered a good number of their albums on these pages. Now here is...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

ANNA, Intentions, Progressive and Cosmic Ambient Electronics for the Soul

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  ANNA is a DJ from Portugal, born in Brazil. Her new (second) album Intentions (Mercury CD) provides you with a sort of progressive avant a...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Denny Zeitlin, Solo Piano, Crazy Rhythm: Exploring George Gershwin

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Ever since the early '60s pianist Denny Zeitlin has excelled as an original improvisational voice that has all the harmonic nuance of a ...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Yumi Ito, YSLA

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  Singer-Songwriter Yumi Ito happily sent me her new album and hey, it sounds so good. It is called YSLA   (ENJA yeb7831). I am taken by her...
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Grego Applegate Edwards
Cape May, New Jersey, United States
I am a life-long writer, musician, composer and editor. I wrote for Cadence for many years, a periodical covering jazz and improv music. My combined Blogspot blogs (as listed in the links) now cover well over 3,000 recordings in review. It's been a labor of love. The music is chosen because I like it, for the most part, so you won't find a great deal of nastiness here. I have no affiliations and gain nothing from liking what I do, so that makes me somewhat impartial. I do happen to like a set of certain musics done well, so it's not everything released that gets coverage on these blogs. I have thirteen volumes of compositions available on amazon.com. Just type in "Grego Applegate Edwards" to find them. (But one is under "Gregory Applegate Edwards.") I went to music and higher education schools and got degrees. It changed my life and gave me the ability to think and write better. I've studied with master musicians, too. The benefits I gained from them are invaluable. I appreciate my readers. You are why I write these reviews. I hope the joy of music enriches your life like it does mine. Thank you. And thank you to all the artists that make it possible.
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