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 28, 2013

Parque, The Earworm Versions

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Parque, a Portu- guese new music avant improvi- sation group with six members, performed three pieces as part of Ricardo Jacinto's ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway, Duke at the Roadhouse, Live in Santa Fe

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When things are clicking in jazz-improv- isation-land one always prays that "the tapes are rolling." That was most fortunately t...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Chris Greco Quartet, Trane of Thought, 1994

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Why does an album as good as Trane of Thought (GWS FourWinds 71959), recorded in 1994, take so long to come out? Whatever the reasons, th...
Monday, June 24, 2013

June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren, Quercus

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The world of the ECM sound has never been an entire strang- er to folk music. Garbarek has done some things with Norwegian folk melodies a...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Giovanni Guidi Trio, City of Broken Dreams

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An artist may build, per- haps must build upon and over what has been before. With the present-day existence of musical terrain, like the...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Frank Wess, Magic 101

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Could it really have been 55 years ago or so that I first heard Frank Wess (without knowing) on a Count Basie Roulette 78 rpm record I bou...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Jemeel Moondoc, Connie Crothers, Two

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Two (Relative Pitch 1009) pits Jemeel Moon- doc's alto with Connie Crothers' piano, recorded live at Connie's Loft in 2011. G...
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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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