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.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Bob Gluck, Tani Tabbal, At This Time: Duets

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The thing about Bob Gluck? He is a glorious pianist and electronician. And he writes wonderful books on important jazz-historical topics...

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Grego Applegate Edwards Talks About His CD Pastoral Dream I

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So hey it seems time once again to explain myself. What in tarnation am I doing and why? The answer is simple. I have no idea what I am do...

Friday, December 22, 2017

Wadada Leo Smith, Najwa

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Before the year ends I need to cover an album that deserves to rank among the year's best. I refer to Wadada Leo Smith's CD Najwa...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Kasper Tom, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Rudi Mahall, Abstract Window

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I've come across some threads in social media lately, asking why it is that no major innovators have emerged on the new jazz scene tod...

Monday, December 4, 2017

Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1964

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For the 100th Thelonious Monk birthday year we have an issue of a rather obscure Monk studio session from Europe, 1964. It comes in the fo...

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk

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As we celebrate and commemorate the 100th birthday of Thelonious Monk, we mark the occasion in a number of ways. Perhaps no more touchingl...

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Amjad Ali Khan, Peace Worshipers

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There is a special place in my heart for both Hindustani (North) and Carnatic (South) Indian Classical Music. I grew up at a time when the...

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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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