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, June 23, 2021

Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg, Julian Sartorius, Lockdown

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  All of us who have experienced the recent year or so (as I write these lines) will no doubt look back upon it all as a definite trial. Our...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, Special Edition Box

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  Over the past decade the various duet recordings between Ivo Perelman (tenor sax) and Matthew Shipp (piano) have unquestionably been some ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Francois Carrier, Alexander Hawkins, Nirguna, John Edwards, Michel Lambert

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There are days when life intervenes, when it gets in the way of a set routine. If ever one might get distracted, that would be the case in t...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Moon On the Lake, with Takashi Sugawa, Iuetsu Takemura

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  I cannot recall hearing a Satoko Fujii album that I did not like, though the instrumentation can vary widely and there have been quite a f...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Flow Trio with Joe McPhee, Winter Garden

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  Combine Free Jazz tenor giant Joe McPhee with the Flow Trio (Louie Belogenis, soprano and tenor saxes, Joe Morris, bass, and Charles Downs...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Nate Wooley, Mutual Aid Music

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  Good things of course may come in small packages. With standardization though after a while everything may   come in small packages--as in...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Pak Yan Lau and Lionel Malric, Duo Pour 454 Chordes

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  If you look at the cover above you can see why I might have had this on my "to listen" stack longer than I should have. It tells...
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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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