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Tim Niland
Blues and Jazz ExaminerTim Niland is a lifelong jazz and blues fan, who
began blogging about music five years ago. In real life, he is a
public librarian living in New Jersey.
Examiner Feeds
These websites were picked by the Blues and Jazz Examiner as useful resources.- Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Suite (Tzadik, 2008)
- Ben Allison - Little Things Rule the World (Palmetto, 2008)
- Tony Malaby – Tamarindo (Clean Feed, 2008)
- Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Eclipse at Dawn (Cuneiform, 2008)
- The Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008)
- Elmore James Jr. - Daddy Gave me the Blues (JSP, 2008)
- The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 (Mosaic, 2008)
- Fieldwork - Door (Pi, 2008)
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Mario Pavone w/ Paul Bley and Matt Wilson - Trio Arc (Playscape, 2008)
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Mario Pavone Trio
Reuniting after nearly four decades and being joined by drummer Matt Walson they have recorded a disc of wide open improvisation by three masters of the genre. Some patience is required to unlock it's mysteries, but the music never grows stale and the time invested is well spent. "Slant" opens the disc with free sounding bass and drums setting the stage for the piano's entry. Bley comes in with a fast and tumbling feel to his playing. "Hello Again" features slow and probing piano full of wide open spaces. The bass and drums then join in on a dark collective improvisation. "Quest" has a throbbing bass pulse and Wilson skittering on cymbals, keeping the full bodied piano grounded. "Miro" is free and dark, like rolling thunderheads, and the delicate and probing piano found here is perfect for a performance dedicated to a visual artist. "Lazzi" has some odd plucked piano strings or prepared piano, and the bass played high up on the neck, making for a very interesting sound. "Sweet" is a milder trio improvisation with a neo-classical feel. The disc ends with "Solo Bley", a brief coda of solo piano ruminations to end the disc, completing a cycle that sounds like a suite.
Topics: jazz , mariopavone , paulbley , mattwilson
More from Blues and Jazz Examiner
John Coltrane - The Major Works of John Coltrane (Impulse, 1992)
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This two CD set brings together some very intense and transitional music recorded by John Coltrane in 1965. This was a fascinating period in his career, as his longtime quartet with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums... Read More
Topics: jazz , johncoltrane
Various Artists - Jook Joint Blues (JSP, 2007)
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For blues fans, the Juke or in this case Jook Joint has taken on the mystical place of a temple, where the Word of the blues is passed down from the musician-priests to the eager supplicants, who contort and speak in tongues on the dance floor. This... Read More
Topics: blues , variousartists
John Patton – Soul Connection (Just A Memory/Justin Time 1983, 2008)
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“Big” John Patton never quite achieved the fame of fellow organists Jimmy Smith or Brother Jack McDuff, but he was a potent and soulful force on the instrument in the 1960’s, cutting some well received albums for Blue Note before drifting... Read More
Topics: jazz , bigjohnpatton
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Vagrant, 2008)
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Anthemic sounding rock 'n' roll with the "big" sound like Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire, et. al. The character studies are quite interesting, almost beat like in their studies of the underside of American youth. Musicians running from the... Read More
Topics: rockandroll , theholdsteady
Watermelon Slim and the Workers - No Paid Holidays (Northern Blues, 2008)
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Watermelon Slim and the Workers play the straight-up workingman's blues, for people who walk the hard road every day and are trying to make ends meet. Slim has been a soldier, truck driver and everything in between, and their latest album continues their... Read More
Topics: blues , watermelonslim
Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar (Paula, 1981)
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Like many of the legends of the blues, guitarist Earl Hooker moved to Chicago in the post-war years from his birthplace of Mississippi. Earning a place for himself in the pantheon with his unique slide guitar and his aversion to singing, Hooker never... Read More
Topics: blues , earlhooker
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Party Intellectuals (Pi Recordings, 2008)
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In some recent pictures, guitarist Marc Ribot looks like that professor you had in college… complete with scruffy salt and pepper hair and a wry smile. But this belies the heart of a radical musical polymath that still beats within him. Jumping... Read More
Topics: jazz , marcribot
Interesting posts
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The Allmusic blog has anice post about the music of trumpeter Woody Shaw:"Although Shaw would continue to record for various labels up until his tragic death in 1989, he never quite achieved the commercial success he deserved. Nonetheless, he is... Read More
Topics: jazz , blues , woodyshaw
Short reviews
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John Zorn - Filmworks XIX (Tzadik, 2008): For this release, John Zorn puts down his saxophone and picks up his composing pen, to write eleven short sketches for the animated short film, The Rain Horse which was directed by Russian animator Dimitri Geller.... Read More
Topics: jazz , johnzorn , larryochs
