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, July 29, 2016

Myriad 3, Moons

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Canada's Myriad3 is a jazz piano trio whose music has a marked composed-arranged emphasis and an acoustic jazz-rock sensibility simila...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber, Alba

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Trumpet-flugelmaster Markus Stockhausen shows us a fine burst of creative energy on his first collaborative album with pianist Florian Web...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Defunkt, Live at Channel Zero

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Defunkt has long been one of the first among progressive funk outfits, but also a sort of thinking-feeling man-woman's band. Trombonis...

Dominique Pifarely Quartet, Trace Provisoire

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Violinist Dominique Pifarely squares a round hole musically by conflating the improvised with the composed. You could say that jazz has al...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Masabumi Kikuchi, Black Orpheus

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Masabumi Kikuchi's posthumous release of a solo piano concert in Tokyo, Black Orpheus (ECM 2459) is in many ways a thing of wonder. It...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Forward Music Fest Kickstarter Campaign Needs Your Help!

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The Forward Experimental Music Festival, Three Days of the very new in Brooklyn, NY, is in the closing days of its Kickstarter Campaign. The...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Wolfert Brederode Trio, Black Ice

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Wolfert Brederode is a pianist-composer whose intimate and dynamic musings seem tailor-made for the ECM Label sound. Black Ice (ECM 2476) ...
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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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