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.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Robust Darkness in the Music of Szilard Mezei

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Violist-composer Szilard Mezei favors a slightly darker palette than the norm. For a recent album on Leo, We Were Watching the Rain (which ...

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Group "Transit" Scales Improvisational Heights

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Some of the new improv/jazz out there today does not follow the head-solos-head format that has been so pervasive in the music. It goes some...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Cromagnon: Cave Rock Both Retro and Ahead of Its Time

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1969. The rather obscure band Cromagnon completes their first (and only?) album. It comes out on ESP Disk. The world does not change discern...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Tower of Power Live Set Unearthed

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Funk. When it was new, the form had enormous power and the ability to liberate rhythm to a higher level of intensity. When I think of the mu...

Friday, June 19, 2009

Nik Baertsch's Ritual Groove Music: When is the Same Different?

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The music perhaps unfortunately dubbed "minimalism" is an Amero-Euro development that draws heavily on world music traditions. Rep...

Thursday, June 18, 2009

What's Good is Sometimes Boring Too

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Now I love Latin jazz when it's done right. I was fortunate in my listening regarding this on two counts: 1.) My father somehow ended up...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

New CD with David Bond, Dewey Redman, Marshall Allen

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Vineyard Records is about to release The Key of Life, a new CD that features a couple of live sessions with saxophonists David Bond, Dewey R...

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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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