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, December 31, 2013

David Buchbinder, Walk to the Sea

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Where else but on Tzadik would you find such effective combinations of the Jewish Tinge and....anything and everything? That's a rheto...

Friday, December 27, 2013

Brian Settles Trio, Folk

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Making a joyfully free noise is a good thing with a trio of tenor, acoustic bass and drums. And you get that very completely with the Bria...

Eri Yamamoto Trio, Firefly

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The piano trio in jazz remains one of the constants over the many years of group performances through to today. There can be an intimacy t...

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow, Trios

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By now I would imagine anybody who knows the music knows that Carla Bley has created an extraordinary body of jazz compositions and arrang...

Friday, December 20, 2013

Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet, Latin Jazz-Jazz Latin

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When I was a Sophomore in High School I was assigned a rookie English teacher who began the first class with "I am so-and-so, I gradu...

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra, I Go Humble

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I can think of examples where a cross-fertilization of musical genres goes flat. It used to be more common, when the musical-cultural worl...

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Gapplegate Music Review Records of the Year, 2013

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I decided it was time to start picking my records of the year for the majority of genres I cover. I did not in the past, except to name Wada...

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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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