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, February 9, 2016

Laurie Antonioli & Richie Beirach, Varuna

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Jazz vocalist Laurie Antonioli seems perfectly matched with the piano subtleties of Richie Beirach in their album Varuna (Origin 82698). ...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series

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When technology allows us to do unprecedented things in music it makes us take notice, to listen with renewed energy if everything goes we...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Naked Truth, Avian Thug

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Another good one from rarenoise records, who have been giving us consistently worthy examples of avant electric jazz-rock fusion and happi...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Art "Turk" Burton and Congo Square, Spirits: Then and Now, Featuring Ari Brown

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Chicago's famed AACM, formidable congolero and bandleader Art "Turk" Bu...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Urs Bollhalder Trio, Eventide

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I suspect that because the piano was my very first instrument, beginning at age four, and because my mom did her best to produce on our pi...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

The Sound Convincer, States of Transmigration, Dimitar Pentchev

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When a classically-trained pianist turns to improvisation, one can expect something different than when a jazz or avant jazz pianist goes ...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Rik Wright's Fundamental Forces, Green

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Guitarist Rik Wright and his Fundamental Forces quartet have been coming out with music for some time now, basically in a jazz-rock vein. ...
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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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