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.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Vincent Bergeron, Canadian Original

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Vincent Bergeron composes electro-acoustic music. He takes orchestral and other found musical sounds, chops them up into sound bits and puts...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Ensemble Economique's "Standing Still, Facing Forward"

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Composer Brian Pyle and his virtual Ensemble Economique give us something quite wonderful on their release Standing Still, Facing Forward (...

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

David Borgo's "Chance, Discovery and Design" DVD

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David Borgo, musician, composer, conceptualist and educator, has much going for him. He plays fluent sax and flute in the jazz-improv-new-mu...

Friday, August 27, 2010

KaiBorg: David Borgo and Jeff Kaiser

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The world of electronic music has altered drastically since the days of Milton Babbitt and the RCA Synthesizer. . . one man in extended real...

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Harley Gaber Today: "Mount Fuji" Soundscape

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Harley Gaber in my mind will always have the distinction of composing and recording one of the most extreme instrumental avant garde classic...

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Phil Kline & His Zippo Songs

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OK, Phil Kline's song cycle Zippo Songs (Cantaloupe Music) has been available for some time now. If I am mentioning it today it is beca...

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Alvin Curran's Remarkable Musical Collages

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Alvin Curran is one of those composers-performers-improvisers that should be heard by anyone with designs on a complete understanding of mod...

Friday, April 30, 2010

Swarmius Return with New EP

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We took a look at Swarmius's first CD a few days ago (see listing below). Today it's time for their EP follow-up, Also Normal (Alep...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Johnny Butler's Looped Based Solo Saxophone Music

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Johnny Butler plays the alto sax. He heads up an interesting ensemble, Scurvy, which I cover in one of my other blogs (see www.gapplegate.co...

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

A New Version of Riley's "In C," with Remixes

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When Terry Riley's concert piece In C was first rather quietly unveiled in the later '60s (as a Columbia recording under the direct...

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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 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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