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, October 10, 2014

Eric Vloeimans' Oliver's Cinema

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Chamber jazz has become a large part of the international scene. Not to rehearse history here but it it has been with us for some time. . ...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Salsa de la Bahia, Vol. 2, A Collection of Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz

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The contemporary Bay Area Salsa-Latin jazz scene is vital, judging by the music coming out on the Patois label. Today we have the second 2...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Fred Tompkins, Flute Settings

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Last month we took a look at Fred Tompkins' classically tinged jazz composition as recorded in the late '60s-early '70s by a s...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Christian Jacob, Beautiful Jazz, A Private Concert

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Judging from how many post-Bill Evans, fully harmonic piano players' CDs I get regularly you would think that the style predominates t...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Jean-Marc Foussat, Sylvain Guerineau & Joe McPhee, QUOD

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Avant electronician Jean-Marc Foussat has formed a trio of three and set them loose on the dynamically engaging QUOD (Fou CD 05). Open-fo...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Eliana Cuevas, Espejo

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The category of "Latin vocalists" is something so wide as almost to be meaningless. Of course one will expect the singing to be ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Raymond MacDonald and Marilyn Crispell, Parallel Moments

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From the somewhat obscure British label Babel Label comes a fine series of improvised duets between Scottish saxophonist Raymond MacDonald...
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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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