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, September 28, 2021

Maria Finkelmeier, MF Dynamics, Descended

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  Once again I am glad to write about an album I probably would never had gotten in the pre-review days yet turns out on detailed inspection...
Friday, September 24, 2021

EFG Trio, Transliminal Rites, Eyal Maoz, Frank London, Guy Barash

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  You can never be sure what is next, be it in music or anything else. But surprise can be good sometimes. That's how I feel about the E...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Eunhye Jeong, Nolda

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  Those who follow advanced Improv/Avant Jazz know that solo piano outings form an important genre within the style. Certainly Cecil Taylor ...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Ros Bandt, Medusa Dreaming

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  The music world today, perhaps in spite of the economics of it all, is wide open. There are a nearly infinite number of ways to go when it...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Muhal Richard Abrams, Soundpath, The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound

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  As I write this composer-pianist AACM founder Muhal Richard Abrams has been gone from us some four years. Yet of course his music lives on...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Rodrigo Amado, This is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men

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  Over the years I cannot remember a bad Rodrigo Amado album. They are all worthwhile. His tenor is always on top of things, animated, inspi...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, Sacred Ceremonies

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  An artist of stature grows in time if he or she has the time, the opportunity and of course the vision. Trumpet master and composer Wadada...
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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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