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Music Review: Gerry Mulligan Sextet - Legends Live: Gerry Mulligan Sextet

Mar 11, 10:16am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Gerry Mulligan Sextet live in Germany.
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Music Review: Gerry Mulligan Sextet - Legends Live: Leiderhalle Stuttgart Nov 22, 1977

Mar 11, 10:16am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Gerry Mulligan Sextet live in Germany.
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Celebration: Remembering - a tribute to Bob Brookmeyer

Dec 23, 2011, 6:58pm Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
My tribute to Bob Brookmeyer is up at NewMusicBox. As important as Bob is to me, I knew my own words would be inaquate to convey the full sweep of his career and the enormous influence he had on generations of musicians — so the piece also includes excerpts from interviews I conducted with Jim Hall, Bill Holman, Jim McNeely, Joe Lovano, Maria Schneider, and others.
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You should have known by now you were on my list

Mar 11, 2010, 4:05am Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
You should have known by now you were on my list Last June, DownBeat's Frank Hadley invited me to "please list your FIVE most favorite big band albums; and add comments (of any length) about each album" for a piece he was writing for the magazine. That piece has finally gone to press -- it's in the April issue, you can read it here . I was far from the only one Frank contacted -- almost 200 players, composers, educators et al responded to this straw poll, and the results are fascinating. You'd have to expect that Miles & Gil's Porgy and [...]
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Artist:Bob Brookmeyer
Title:Celebration Jig
Link Text:Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra - Celebration Jig
File Name:bob-brookmeyer-new-art-orchest ra---celebration-jig.mp3
Bitrate:270 kbps
Year:1997
Artist:Guillermo Klein
Title:Miula
Link Text:Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos - Miula (excerpt)
File Name:guillermo-klein-y-los-guachos- --miula-excerpt.mp3
Bitrate:278 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:John Hollenbeck
Title:Abstinence
Link Text:John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble - Abstinence (excerpt)
File Name:john-hollenbeck-large-ensemble ---abstinence-excerpt.mp3
Bitrate:270 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:Maria Schneider Orchestra
Title:Bulería, Soleá y Rumba
Link Text:Maria Schneider Orchestra - Bulería, Soleá y Rumba (excerpt)
File Name:maria-schneider-orchestra---bu lería-soleá-y-ru mba-excerpt.mp3
Bitrate:276 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:Sam Rivers
Title:Bubbles
Link Text:Sam Rivers Rivbea All-Star Orchestra - Bubbles (excerpt)
File Name:sam-rivers-rivbea-all-star-orc hestra---bubbles-excerpt.mp3
Bitrate:281 kbps
Year:1999

Three times three... Evan Parker... Jimmy Giuffre... Ornette Coleman... plus Gene Ammons and Richard 'Groove' Holmes...

Jan 10, 2010, 3:42pm wordsandmusic
A belated happy new year to everyone... and three trios plus an organ and tenor combo to greet 2010... Evan Parker Trio and 'Geometry.' Starts off busy, fragments of saxophone and bass running round each other as the drums lay out a broad sweep underneath to carry them. Dropping back to solo drums, intricate use of space and silence, a sparseness that builds back into more layered and complicated rhythms then eases again into pointillist dabs of sound at the high end of the range, spliced with sudden runs into the lower sax register. Parker [...]
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Artist:Evan Parker Trio
Title:Geometry
Link Text:Download
File Name:Evan Parker Trio_Geometry.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1986
Artist:Jimmy Giuffre
Title:Blue Monk
Link Text:Download
File Name:Jimmy Giuffre_Blue Monk.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1958
Artist:Ornette Coleman
Title:Clergymans Dream
Link Text:Download
File Name:Ornette Coleman_Clergymans Dream.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1965
Artist:Richard Groove Holmes and Gene Ammons/Richard 'Groove' Holmes and Gene Ammons
Title:Exactly Like You
Link Text:Download
File Name:Gene Ammons_Richard Groove Holmes_exactly like you.mp3
Bitrate:141 kbps
Year:2000

Spirit Music: Bob Brookmeyer at 80

Dec 19, 2009, 11:59pm Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Spirit Music: Bob Brookmeyer at 80 Bob Brookmeyer turns 80 years old today. To anyone with any interest in large-scale jazz composition, Brookmeyer is a figure of near-idolatrous worship. He's earned his place in the pantheon of great large ensemble composers many times over, alongside figures like Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Gil Evans, Thad Jones, and George Russell. The breadth of his work is astounding -- he has never stopped searching for new sounds and new directions to explore. Over the past several decades, he has also been an extraordinarily influential teacher -- Maria Schneider , [...]
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Title:Willow Weep For Me
Link Text:Willow Weep For Me - Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
File Name:willow-weep-for-me---thad-jone s-mel-lewis-orchestra.mp3
Year:1966
Artist:Bob Brookmeyer
Title:Seesaw
Link Text:Seesaw - New Art Orchestra
File Name:seesaw---new-art-orchestra.mp3
Bitrate:270 kbps
Year:2001
Artist:Bob Brookmeyer (w/John Abercrombie, Danny Gottlieb, and the WDR Big Band)
Title:Say Ah
Link Text:Say Ah - WDR Big Band
File Name:say-ah---wdr-big-band.mp3
Bitrate:279 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band
Title:Big City Blues
Link Text:Big City Blues - Gerry Muligan Concert Jazz Band
File Name:big-city-blues---gerry-muligan -concert-jazz-band.mp3
Bitrate:271 kbps
Year:1994
Artist:Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Title:The Nasty Dance
Link Text:The Nasty Dance - Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra
File Name:the-nasty-dance---mel-lewis-an d-the-jazz-orchestra.mp3
Year:1982

10-27-09: This Brings Us To a Black President

Oct 27, 2009, 4:25pm JamsBio Magazine
Featured picks include an R.E.M. live album that'll put a smile on the faces of diehard fans of the venerable Athens quartet and a Fela Kuti double disc compilation that demands to be heard. Tune in and turn it up!
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Jon Hassell, Jimmy Giuffre/MJQ, Al Cohn/Bob Brookmeyer, Blind Joe Taggart, Bob Wills...

Aug 1, 2008, 5:03pm wordsandmusic
So here we go again... Having spent the sunny days listening to old Wolf Eyes wahoo and other assorted loud power electronics... here's... Jon Hassell. Who sails away on 'Blues Nile.' A gag I could not resist. I'm all for cheap and easy laughs... Opens on a drone then shadowy trumpet, breathy and bending. Trumpet doubled up, a muezzin-like call across a misty landscape. The influence of his voice teacher Pandit Pran Nath comes through strongly here, it seems – a vocalised line of fragile beauty. [...]
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