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, August 29, 2014

Adam Schroeder, Let's

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The baritone sax has a special place in my listening mind. There are not quite so many of them and as a result perhaps the very good playe...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Karmadog Live, Featuring Greg Pagel and Matt Turner at Culture Cafe

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The creative possibilities of live electronics in avant garde music has blossomed in the last few decades, thanks in part to new devices, ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Cory Wright Outfit, Apples + Oranges

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Cory Wright has conquered musical space. It's incontrovertable, as the old Castro Convertible ad jingle used to have it (if anybody re...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Sly 5th Ave Presents Akuma

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Sly 5th Ave (aka Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II) makes his debut with Akuma (TRR-014). Still in his early 20s, Sly plays sax (tenor mostly)...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Vana Gierig, Making Memories, with Special Guest Paquito d' Rivera

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Vana Gierig has a way with the piano--rhapsodic, rhythmically vital and as accomplished in his touch as he is in vertical-horizontal note ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

David Helbock's Random/Control, Think of Two

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When you "think of two", you may find yourself thinking about Thelonious Monk's classic piece, "Think of One". So ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Tone Hunting, Anna Kaluza, Artur Majewski, Rafal Mazur, Kuba Suchar

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Not everything in music today can be readily and facilely stuffed into various pre-classified cubicles. That is part of what makes new mus...
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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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