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.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Mind Games, Ephemera Obscura

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Anything we do not know is not necessarily some profound treasure, obviously. Yet we ignore the new and unknown at our own peril, for ther...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Jonah Parzen-Johnson, I Try to Remember Where I Come From

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Who is Jonah Parzen-Johnson and why should we care? The short answer is that he is a musician-composer from Chicago. The "why we shou...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Roots Magic, Last Kind Words

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Roots Magic bypasses all the BS out there and zeros in on the roots of magic, the magic of the roots and their capacity to renew us time...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Cristina Braga & Brandenburger Symphoniker, Whisper, with Dada Villa-Lobos

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The heartfelt saudade of Brazilian song means that often enough there is a level of romanticism (in both senses) to be encountered in the ...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Rob Mazurek, Rome

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Rob Mazurek, cornetist, electronician, composer and bandleader, has in the last several decades made some monumentally important recording...
Friday, August 11, 2017

The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra, Dreaming Big

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I am hard pressed to imagine what the economics are of keeping a big band jazz outfit together these days. It is no doubt difficult enough...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Art Fristoe Trio, DoubleDown

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In the course of my sometimes meandering existence as music writer, musician, poetic inventor and liver of life, I sometimes realize how l...
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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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