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.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Jeb Bishop, The Flame Alphabet

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It should come as no surprise to those who know their work that pitting tenor Rodrigo Amado with trombonist Jeb Bishop is an excellent ide...

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Pablo Ziegler & Metropole Orkest, Amsterdam Meets New Tango

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Where we can go musically these days is...anywhere. And when we do and it goes well, we all gain a great deal in the process. That's h...

Albatre, Descent into the Maelstrom

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Today, another volume in the adventurous Shh Puma series of avant recordings overseen and manufactured by the makers of Clean Feed. It...

Monday, August 5, 2013

Satoko Fujii New Trio, Spring Storm

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One thing about Satoko Fujii, pianist, composer, avant bandleader. She will not be pinned down. You cannot predict what she will do from o...

Peter Lemer Quintet, Local Color, 1966

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Here we have a Peter Lemer Quintet album from 1966, his only as a leader and quite a nice one. Local Colour (ESP 1057) must have come and...

Friday, August 2, 2013

Yma Sumac, Recital, 1961

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Vocalist Yma Sumac was a supreme presence in the late-'50s early-'60s. She came upon the scene as part of Capitol Records' som...

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Michael Bates Samuel Blaser Quintet, From One to None

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Samuel Blaser is one of the important new trombonists out there. I've covered two of his albums previously on these pages (see January...

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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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