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, August 31, 2012

William Parker, Centering, Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987

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Box sets can go a number of ways. For years the typical set contained all released material by an artist on a label plus a number of ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Michael Bisio Matthew Shipp Duo, Floating Ice

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Not everybody can be at the top. Among the very best of the improvisers today. The most creative and inventive. The most consistent. Mich...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Francois Tusques, Noel McGhie, Topolitologie

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Pianist Francois Tusques was one of the early, pioneering avant-free jazz practitioners in Europe in the '60s, yet not much of his mu...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Jessica Jones, Mark Taylor, Live at the Freight

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Here's something a little off the usual path: a quartet with the front line of tenor (Jessica Jones) and French horn or mellophone (M...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Wally Shoup and Paul Kikuchi, Aurora Distillations

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Drummer-percussionist-conceptualist-leader Paul Kikuchi has been devising some remarkable explorations of the free-ambient spectrum in ye...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Tony Monaco, Celebration

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In the ongoing "Great Organ Trio Revival" we have been experiencing for more than a decade now, Tony Monaco may well be the one...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Bad Luck, Bloodroot EP

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We've been coming across tenorist/composer Neil Welch a bit lately (especially his Sleeper ). Here's another one of interest. It...
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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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