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, January 31, 2014

Joe McPhee, Sonic Elements, for Pocket Trumpet and Alto Saxophone

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Joe McPhee has become a kind of legend for his very productive career making great improvised music under his own name and with Trio X. He...

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Keith Jarrett, Concerts, Bregenz, Munchen, 1981

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If you've listened carefully enough and across the board historically to Keith Jarrett's solo piano recordings, you've no doub...

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Elton Dean, Remembrance, 2004

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Throughout his life saxophonist Elton Dean had a varied number of associations and styles in which he worked with a sureness and mastery v...

Monday, January 27, 2014

Ran Blake & Jon Hazilla, Kaleidoscope

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Ran Blake, avant legend pianist, rarely records with drummers. I am scratching my head to remember one. It's a matter of what he sets ...

Jose Rizo's Mongorama, Baila Que Baila

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We're levitating over the floorboards this morning with some more fine Latin Jazz. As the opening strains of Baila Que Baila (Saungu ...

Friday, January 24, 2014

Pete McGuinness, Voice Like A Horn

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Not everything is known. We don't know everything. And sometimes, we learn just by hearing. Take singer-trombonist Pete McGuinness and...

Bob Dorough, Duets

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Bob Dorough prevails, he flourishes, still. The one singer Miles agreed to record with at the height of his powers? Bob Dorough. A singer-...

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About Me

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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