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.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Byard Lancaster Quartet, Ancestral Link Hotel, 2005

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It's only been a couple of months since Philly-based saxophonist Byard Lancaster left this earth. We will not forget him. He walked t...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Gato Libre, Forever, with Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii

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When jazz doesn't seem like most jazz, is it still jazz? The answer that comes to mind is "Who Cares, Talk About Something that ...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Platform 1 Takes Off, with Ken Vandermark and Steve Swell

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Platform 1? The name of a very lively "free jazz" quintet. Platform 1 Takes Off (Clean Feed 255) is the name of what I take to...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Mark Masters Ensemble, American Jazz Institute Presents Ellington Saxophone Encounters

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Duke. We return to his music time and again to refresh ourselves at the fountain of brilliance. Of course there is the enormous body of r...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Ezra Weiss, Our Path to This Moment

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Big band music by ambitious composer-arrangers wil never die. Financing the roll-out and continued existence of a big band devoted to orig...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Angles 8, By Way of Deception, Live in Ljubljana

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Today, the second of two Clean Feed Live at Ljubljana Jazz Festival disks covered this week (Monday I covered one by Igor Lumpert's T...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Michael Bisio, Dominic Duval, No Greater Love, 1999

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A lengthy, freely expressed, chamber jazz outing by two reeds and two basses could end up being a snore-inducing bore in the wrong hands. ...
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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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