Peter Margasak
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Complete Communion: Jazz For January Reviewed By Peter Margasak
A stunning mid-70s discovery of metamusician Don Cherry found in the GRM vaults, a victory lap for the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, and a furious live session from Connecticut are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For January Reviewed By Peter Margasak
A stunning mid-70s discovery of metamusician Don Cherry found in the GRM vaults, a victory lap for the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, and a furious live session from Connecticut are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
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Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Newly unearthed archival recordings of live dates from the 1960s, a profound homage to the swing-and-drag aesthetic of drummer Paul Motian from former collaborators, a new quintet from the veteran Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and a thrumming quintet session from drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Newly unearthed archival recordings of live dates from the 1960s, a profound homage to the swing-and-drag aesthetic of drummer Paul Motian from former collaborators, a new quintet from the veteran Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and a thrumming quintet session from drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
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Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Recently discovered free jazz gems from Los Angeles and Berlin, orchestral free jazz spiked by West African grooves, folk-jazz tracing the history of indigenous North American Wabanaki people, and dynamic dice-and-splice free jazz assemblages from LA are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music.
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Recently discovered free jazz gems from Los Angeles and Berlin, orchestral free jazz spiked by West African grooves, folk-jazz tracing the history of indigenous North American Wabanaki people, and dynamic dice-and-splice free jazz assemblages from LA are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music.
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Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Reissues of historic free jazz from South African legends the Blue Notes, increasingly sophisticated compositional gambits from virtuoso guitarist Mary Halvorson, finely-tuned intuition from a quartet led by drummer Ches Smith, and solo saxophone evocations of Maria Faust’s childhood memories of an Estonian castle are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Reissues of historic free jazz from South African legends the Blue Notes, increasingly sophisticated compositional gambits from virtuoso guitarist Mary Halvorson, finely-tuned intuition from a quartet led by drummer Ches Smith, and solo saxophone evocations of Maria Faust’s childhood memories of an Estonian castle are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
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Complete Communion: Jazz For March Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Furious noise jazz from iconic Japanese guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, soothing tones from vibraphonist Joel Ross, and language-leaking lyricism from pianist Kaja Draksler highlight Peter Margasak’s latest round-up of improvised sounds
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Complete Communion: Jazz For March Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Furious noise jazz from iconic Japanese guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, soothing tones from vibraphonist Joel Ross, and language-leaking lyricism from pianist Kaja Draksler highlight Peter Margasak’s latest round-up of improvised sounds
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Complete Communion: Jazz For January Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Peter Margasak hopes the music covered here doesn’t just suggest a high bar qualitatively for the year ahead, but that it also signals the worst is behind us, as many of these recordings are imbued with the sort of driving, triumphant spirit that we need to help us get back on our feet
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Complete Communion: Jazz For January Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Peter Margasak hopes the music covered here doesn’t just suggest a high bar qualitatively for the year ahead, but that it also signals the worst is behind us, as many of these recordings are imbued with the sort of driving, triumphant spirit that we need to help us get back on our feet
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Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Peter Margasak reviews this month's most notable jazz releases while noting that many of this music's finest practitioners are increasingly rejecting this genre tag as a racist mechanism designed to keep them in a fixed place
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Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Peter Margasak reviews this month's most notable jazz releases while noting that many of this music's finest practitioners are increasingly rejecting this genre tag as a racist mechanism designed to keep them in a fixed place
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Complete Communion: Jazz For July Reviewed By Peter Margasak
While there are great 'pandemic albums' being released now, it’s hard not to gravitate toward records where the charged, spontaneous interplay of musicians feels palpable. Complete Communion has both polarities covered, says Peter Margasak, with some gripping stops in between
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Complete Communion: Jazz For July Reviewed By Peter Margasak
While there are great 'pandemic albums' being released now, it’s hard not to gravitate toward records where the charged, spontaneous interplay of musicians feels palpable. Complete Communion has both polarities covered, says Peter Margasak, with some gripping stops in between
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Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Jazz may just be returning to the live stage, says Peter Margasak, but the musicians never stopped producing great music, and this month we cover new work from Maria Grand, Milford Graves & Jason Moran, and the new quartet Hearth
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Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Jazz may just be returning to the live stage, says Peter Margasak, but the musicians never stopped producing great music, and this month we cover new work from Maria Grand, Milford Graves & Jason Moran, and the new quartet Hearth
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Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Strong new albums from Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, and New Hermitage nonchalantly reach beyond the language of jazz without abandoning its fundamental improvisational core, says Peter Margasak
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Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Strong new albums from Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, and New Hermitage nonchalantly reach beyond the language of jazz without abandoning its fundamental improvisational core, says Peter Margasak
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