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Zoe Rahman – review

4670 days ago

Guardian Music — Pizza Express, London The body language of British pianist Zoe Rahman always gives the game away. She loves musical conversations, and her vivacious relationship with her regular trio, and with her reeds-playing brother, Idris, often sparks memorable... more info

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Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review

4725 days ago

Guardian Music — (Intakt)Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer has been a key figure in European free jazz and improv since the early 1960s, and this unaccompanied performance is an exhilarating 70th-birthday celebration in which she ranges across styles and composers from ... more info

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Keith Jarrett: Rio – review

4767 days ago

Guardian Music — (ECM)It takes a while to get over the shock of seeing an ECM Records sleeve as a riot of blazing yellows and reds rather than the usual mysterious monochrome. Then you listen to this solo-piano double album, recorded live only six months ago in Rio, ... more info

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Randy Weston: The Storyteller - review

4865 days ago

Guardian Music — (Motéma)Iconic jazz seniors bearing halos of spiritual gravitas sometimes go more for gravitas than music as the years pass – but not Randy Weston. Weston is the fine, Thelonious Monk-influenced jazz pianist who became captivated by the music and ... more info

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Zim Ngqawana obituary

4887 days ago

Guardian Music — Free-spirited South African saxophonistThe South African saxophonist Zim Ngqawana has died aged 51 after suffering a stroke during a rehearsal. Ngqawana's debut studio album, San Song (1996), introduced his measured yet free-spirited style of music, ... more info

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Nicolas Jaar released 'Space Is Only Noise', covered Abdullah Ibrahim, has a label, can legally drink @ his US live band debut

4930 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — "Nicolas Jaar was born the 10th of January 1990 in New York but spent most of his childhood in Santiago de chile. Haunted by Mulato Astatke and Erik Satie, he started making electronic music in 2004. At the age of... more info

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50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim

5035 days ago

Guardian Music — While apartheid divided a nation, South African jazz artists were exporting a heady mix of harmony, energy and hopeThe English critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers once suggested western musical structures mirrored that civilisation's impulse to appro... more info

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Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya: Sotho Blue – review

5110 days ago

Guardian Music — (Intuition)The great South African pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim has often seemed to consign his enduring themes to glass cases in recent times, imparting to them an untouchably meditative solemnity. This session for the latest edition of Ibrahim... more info

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thursday midday updates

5125 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — VINYL BSCURITY said... obscure indie art new wave rock THE DARK BOB - Uncontrollable Love EP (1987) just posted to::: http://vinylobscurity.blogspot.com Buns O'Plenty said... Bob Dylan - Live at Budokan (1978) http://keep-on-growing.blogspot.com ... more info