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The OtherTet (All About Jazz Review)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34723 The seemingly innocuously titled The OtherTet is far from an exercise in making-music in a modern idiom. A generation ago, speculation would be rif… more →
The Cross Pollinator
The OtherTet (All About Jazz Review)
thecrosspollinator wrote 2 weeks ago: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34723 The seemingly innocuously titled The OtherTet i … more →
Tom Abbs: Lost & Found Review
thecrosspollinator wrote 3 weeks ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/ Cover art to Tom Abbs & Frequency Response’s … more →
Neat things that my friends do
afterthoughtgraveyard wrote 4 weeks ago: 4 friends of mine from grad school started this poetry magazine called Leveler. Every Sunday a new … more →
Othertet: Dream Sketch (MP3)
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: Released on my label October 26th Bill Lowe: Trombone, tuba Taylor Ho Bynum: Trumpet, cornet Joe Mor … more →
Doggin' indie rockers
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: From A Blog Supreme on the NPR website: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/ Well, I originally st … more →
Othertet (Review)
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: From the Downtown Music Gallery newsletter: THE OTHERTET [BILL LOWE/TAYLOR HO BYNUM/JOE MORRIS/KWAKU … more →
Othertet: Naptown/Trenton (MP3)
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: This is the second tune on a record on my label by the Othertet. Bill Lowe: Tuba, trombone Taylor H … more →
Othertet: One Other (MP3)
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: From the self-titled disc Othertet in stores today October 26th. Bill Lowe: Bass trombone, tuba Tayl … more →
Ben Allison: Think Free
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: I’ve made a bunch of jazz albums and I’ve listened to tons more. The market for adventu … more →
Chicago Underground Quartet: Total Recovery (Single)
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: On the 2001 release on Thrill Jockey. Blurring the lines between jazz, indie, and electronic music. … more →
Julius Hemphill: Savannah Suite (Single)
thecrosspollinator wrote 1 month ago: From 2003on Tzadik, various performers playing Hemphill compositions. Marty Ehrlich: flute Erik Frie … more →
Daniel Carter: Chinatown
thecrosspollinator wrote 2 months ago: I have been working hard to expand my list of the best albums of the year, but it was a very thin su … more →
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane: In a Sentimental Mood (Single)
thecrosspollinator wrote 2 months ago: From the record ‘Duke Ellington & John Coltrane’ (1962). Not much to say here, exce … more →
Pharoah Sanders: Deaf Dumb Blind (Side 2)
thecrosspollinator wrote 2 months ago: One track entitled called ‘Let us go into the House of the Lord’. A medium slow tempo fr … more →
Tom Abbs: Lost and Found - Review
thecrosspollinator wrote 3 months ago: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33776 Tom Abbs is a multi-instrumentalist who, beside … more →
Great jazz quote
thecrosspollinator wrote 4 months ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14ali.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rashid%20ali&st=cs … more →
Fred Anderson: Staying In the Game (Review)
thecrosspollinator wrote 4 months ago: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33432 By Lyn Horton Bassist Harrison Bankhead and dru … more →
John Zorn: O'o
thecrosspollinator wrote 4 months ago: I respect how long John Zorn has been in the music game. He must be some kind of workaholic to rele … more →
R.I.P. George Russell
thecrosspollinator wrote 4 months ago: George Russell, author of the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, died this week at age … more →
