The Studio, July 20 Four more diverse finalists are hard to imagine. MC Tim Richie referred to the judges’ difficulty in comparing apples with oranges, but this was more like comparing apples with fire-engines, churches and wombats. In the event the judges awarded the $15,000 Music Trust Freedman Jazz Fellowship…
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Astral Transference/Seven Dreams (Orenda) Los Angeles has a habit of throwing up musicians at odds with the mainstream. Ornette Coleman’s free jazz revolution began there, for instance, and Frank Zappa’s genre-bending body of work is among the twentieth century’s most distinctive. This is the third Daniel Rosenboom opus reviewed in…
Souvenance (ECM) In the six tumultuous years since Anouar Brahem’s last album the Tunisian has watched his homeland explode amid the hopes and horrors of the Arab Spring. This double-album for quartet and string orchestra is his response. In no sense programmatic, it is rather the considered musical thoughts of…