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.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Roscoe Mitchell, Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter, A Railroad Spike Forms the Voice

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  Jimmie Lunceford and his band long ago hipped us to the idea that "it ain't what you do it's the way that you do it." Th...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Robbe Gloaguen Quartet, International Free Dance Music Orchestra, Gardez Votre Sang Froid, Compositions de Francois Tusques

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There are albums in the review cycle that take a while to digest, that I at first do not quite know what I have in front of me. That has bee...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Denny Zeitlin, George Marsh, Telepathy, Duo Electro-Acoustic Improvisations

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  Music can heal. It can be a personal thing, depending on your musical profile sometimes.  Pianist-electroacoustician Denny Zeitlin and dru...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Joel Futterman, Intervals, Solo Piano Improvisations

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  Joel Futterman has over the years proven himself to be one of the most consistently interesting and innovative post-Cecil-Taylorian Free p...
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...
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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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