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.

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...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Clarinetist Michael Thieke with Christian Weber & Michael Griener

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If there is a flow to the sequence of these blogposts, it is sometimes serendipitous. German clarinetist Michael Thieke, for example, has be...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Steve Swell, Gebhart Ullmann, Desert Songs, 2004

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The thing about most, if not all of the music covered in this blog is that it does not expire. The CD package does not provide a "good ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Vivid Big Band Jazz

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Jazz composer, big-band leader and trumpeter John Vanore shows he is a force with which to be reckoned on his new release Curiosity (Acoust...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Thomas-Parker Wells-Blanco Trio Extends the Music of Albert Ayler

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You are at the Glenn Miller Cafe in Stockholm, Sweden, March 2007. The trio of Luther Thomas, alto sax, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, bass, and To...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Jim Cooper Reissue for Those of the Vibraphonic Persuasion

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The vibes are a difficult instrument and perhaps playing them is a relatively unsung art. You get a sound with a particular hardness of mall...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Swarmius Defies Categorization

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Swarmius is a four-man unit. Their music combines industrial, modern classical, world influenced music and a bunch of other things for a mix...
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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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