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, May 30, 2023

Vaster than Empires, Three Days

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  Every day moves forward the presence of time, of history, of where we have been and then might in turn be. Today that needle moves decided...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Allen Lowe, In the Dark

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  Allen Lowe has it all going for him in terms of artistry--his saxology, his Jazz composing brilliance, his determined directionality, his ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mats Gustaffson, Merzbow, Balazs Pandi, Cuts Open

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  Mats Gustaffsen is something of a world apart as a saxophonist when it comes to a style association. Yes he is free, but he can be very el...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Paul Van Gysegem Quartet, Square Talks

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  What yearly developments new and serious music manages to achieve are not always the sort of thing you hear about in the mass media these ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Jacob Chung, Epistle

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  Tenor Sax Hard Bop and Postbop adept Jacob Chung scores big with his Quintet and this most attractive set entitled  Epistle (Three Pines R...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Amjad Ali Khan, Music for Hope

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  If there are good musical ideas out there, I hope someone will hip me to them. In the old days I might frequent a hip record store and may...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Sara Caswell, The Way to You

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  Every so often I catch up with somebody who I have missed in the years of isolation I have endured when some significant miles away from 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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