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.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band Directed by Brent Fischer, Intenso!

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Since the passing of jazz composer, arranger, pianist Clare Fischer his son Brent has been putting together various releases that offer us...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Enoch Smith Jr., The Quest, Live at APC

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When music conjoins with religious practice, my guiding view is first and foremost the quality of the music, in jazz as in any style. So h...

Jerome Jennings, The Beast

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Jerome Jennings, fine post-Blakey drummer and bandleader, holds forth with a good band and compelling tunes on The Beast (IOLA). The styli...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio, Desire & Freedom

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When Albert Ayler famously said that his music and by implication the free jazz of the time was "not about the notes anymore," h...
Monday, December 12, 2016

David S. Ware & Matthew Shipp Duo, Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004

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Undoubtedly no single collaborator looms quite as large in the discography of tenorist David S. Ware as pianist Matthew Shipp. He opened u...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels

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For those who try and keep up with Keith Jarrett's recorded output there can be a daunting array of choices, given his long and distin...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Nuova Camerata, Chant

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The avant-free chamber jazz unit Nuova Camerata makes a modern "new music" confluence that is a product of the vibrant sonic com...
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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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