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, April 10, 2012

Alvin Curran, "Electric Rags II" with the Rova Saxophone Quartet, 1990

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Alvin Curran composes music that confounds and conflates genre-al expectations. Most of what he does has improvisational aspects, but also ...
Monday, April 9, 2012

Devin Gray, Dirigo Rataplan

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In just a day it will be April 10th, time for the debut album by Devin Gray to be released. It is going under the title Dirigo Rataplan (S...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Gary Smulyan, Smul's Paradise

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According to Neil Tesser's fine liner notes, baritonist Gary Smulyan's Smul's Paradise (Capri 74113-2) is a kind of tribute to...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Ames Room, "Bird Dies"

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Bird Dies (Clean Feed 231) is a rather cheeky name for a 45-minute continuous improvisation by the alto sax-bass-drums trio The Ames Room....
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Talking Cows, "Almost Human"

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Talking Cows are into something very good. They start out from Mingus and Dolphy's sort of angular line-driven out-bop combined with so...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Harry Allen, Rhythm on the River

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On the current jazz scene all past styles co-exist with the radically new. It's a pluralistic world where artists may feel free to expl...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Connie Crothers, David Arner: Spontaneous Suites for Two Pianos

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That modern improvised music for two pianos is a rarity partially has to do with logistics. It's not all that easy to find two good ins...
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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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