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, December 31, 2015

Kim Nazarian, Some Morning

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With all the hoopla surrounding Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday we are reminded just how much the swinging jazz-inflected singing of ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Mack Goldsbury, Andreas Scotty Bottcher, Lou Grassi, Inner Cinema, 1997

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From the netherworld of unreleased concert recordings emerges an unexpected gem in Inner Cinema , a 1997 date from Dresden. It features a ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

John Wetton and the Les Paul Trio, New York Minute, Live at the Irridium, New York, 2013

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John Wetton is one of the iconic vocalists of our times. His work with King Crimson and UK, and later on his own, put him in that special ...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Mette Henriette

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From Norway we experience today the music of young tenor saxophonist-composer Mette Henriette in a self-titled two-CD set of her chamber j...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

The Katie Bull Group Project, All Hot Bodies Radiate

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I happen to believe that the hardest thing to get right in modern avant jazz is the vocals. Using the human voice as an expressive instrum...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Rich Halley 4, Eleven

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Tenor stalwart Rich Halley and his quartet continue to grow and get the kind of togetherness that only happens over time. You can hear thi...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Super Hi-Fi, Yule Analog, Vol. II

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For you last-minute holiday types, I just received a fun Christmas album by Super Hi-Fi, namely Yule Analog, Vol. II (superhifimusic). It...
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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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