Steve Smith
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Günter Schlienz – The Sardinian Tapes (Earth Mantra) Elliott Carter – 90+; Piano Sonata; Night Fantasies – Charles Rosen (Bridge) Elliott Carter – Night Fantasies – Ursula Oppens (Cedille) Elliott Carter – Piano Sonata – Paul Jacobs (Nonesuch) Elliott Carter – Night Fantasies – Gilbert Kalish (live 2008.11.20, broadcast recording) John Zorn – Carny –…
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Today's required listening, from Max Roach's 1981 LP, Chattahoochee Red. Not many musicians could pull this off with such decorum, gravity and conviction. The album is rare now, evidently, and is worth tracking down, not least because the band involved – Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Calvin Hill – was one of Roach's best, and…
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Gary Numan – Dance (Beggars Banquet) Various Artists – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age in America, 1950-1990 (Light in the Attic; due Oct. 29) Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (Dead Oceans) Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Concert Music for String Orchestra…
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You might know Anne Guthrie's name from Sinter, the excellent CD she recorded with Richard Kamerman for the ErstAEU label, which is where I first learned of and heard this Brooklyn-baed composer, improviser and acoustician. Maybe you've heard her previous recordings on Engraved Glass or Copy for Your Records. I haven't, which is why I'm…
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Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind) (Machine Music; due Oct. 15) Steve Moore – Positronic Neural Pathways (VCO Recordings) King Crimson – El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 22, 1981 (DGMlive) Antoine Beuger – Sixteen Stanzas on Stillness and Music Unheard – Greg Stuart (l'innomable) Gary Numan – Disconnection (Sanctuary) Gary Numan –…
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Donna Lewis, by Marvin Joseph Donna LewisTime Out New YorkAug 15–21, 2013 Any self-respecting pop star would be delirious to have a hit like “I Love You Always Forever,” an irresistible bit of romantic treacle that launched Welsh singer Donna Lewis to global success in 1996. Same goes for “At the Beginning,” the uplifting…
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Christina Vantzou, by Julie Calbert Christina Vantzou + CC CaranaTime Out New YorkAug 8–14, 2013 The ability to write music that can seize attention or fade into the background equally well is a unique skill, and Christina Vantzou has it in abundance—no surprise for a creator who started in visual art, film and animation. Originally…
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Jordan Klassen (Photograph: Rachel Pick) Live preview: Jordan KlassenTime Out New YorkAug 1–7, 2013 “Let me give, let me talk, let me live in your pillow / Kill your fear, whisper words in your ear,” Jordan Klassen intones reassuringly on “Go to Me.” Slipping easily between intimacy and grandiosity, the track is the first single from Repentance,…
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Conductor Bill Eddins, never one to mince words, weighed in yesterday on the ongoing dissolution of the Minnesota Orchestra, which has just lost two more key players: assistant concertmaster Stephanie Arado, who is taking a teaching position at Interlochen, and principal French horn player Michael Gast, who is coming to the New York Philharmonic during…
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<a href="http://chubbywolf.bandcamp.com/album/seasick" _mce_href="http://chubbywolf.bandcamp.com/album/seasick">Seasick by Chubby Wolf</a> Newly posted on the Chubby Wolf Bandcamp page: Seasick, a beautiful posthumous release initially issued in a limited-edition CD run of 250 copies on the Mystery Sea label. The album was mastered by Mathias Ruhlman, who also added a light sprinkling of original sounds. The results are luminous and…
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Xanthocephalus – sp. (Tranquility Tapes) Parashi – Particle Collider (Tranquility Tapes) Mr. Matthews – High Pass Heart (Tranquility Tapes) The Rainbow Body – Magnetic Highway (Tranquility Tapes) Tuluum Shimmering – Five (self-released) Tuluum Shimmering – Rites for the New Sun (Golden Lyre) Krzysztof Penderecki – Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 – Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra/Krzysztof…
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Once in a while – much more frequently than I'd prefer – I'll hit a patch in which I find myself too busy to take even the five, ten or fifteen minutes required to post one of my New York Times reviews here for a day or three. Given that I usually review three performances…
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Anne Guthrie and Richard Kamerman (Photograph: Billy Gomberg) ErstAEU ShowcaseIssue Project Room; Sat 25 For some time now it’s been possible to labor under the impression that electroacoustic improvisation (or EAI) is exclusively available on import, primarily the domain of Japanese, German and English performers. Actually, that’s never been the case; Americans have contributed to…
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Charles Gayle in 'Rising Tones Cross' JazzizJuly 1999 The early 1980s were a period of transition for the avant-garde fringe in New York. The loft scene – the days in which Ornette Coleman's hom on Prince Street and Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea provided workshops for experimenters to develop their art –was drawing to a close,…
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John Shiurba JazzizMay 1999 Bay Area guitarist and free-improvisor John Shiurba hit upon the idea of his new Limited Sedition record label soon after buying a CD burner last year: "I just wanted to put out CDs of my music, and music that I think is worthy," he explains. "But the idea of shopping tapes…
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Kenny Kirkland JazzizFebruary 1999 Word leaked over the Internet before any official sources were heard. But in the end, the stories were the same: Pianist Kenny Kirkland was found dead in his Queens home on Friday, November 13. He was 43. At press time, no apparent cause of death was revealed.* Kirkland came of…
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Sometimes the road ahead is simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time…and knowing the right people. Back in the spring of 2000, with my illustrious public-relations career at an impasse after BMG Classics eliminated almost everyone in the department, I got an interesting offer from Larry Blumenfeld, then the…
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Ken Thomson, by James Hirschfeld Ken Thomson and I first crossed paths back in 1997, when I was the publicist for the Knitting Factory and its first-annual [sic] Texaco Jazz Festival (formerly What Is Jazz?), and he was part of an intrepid team broadcasting multiple events for Columbia University's invaluable radio station, WKCR-FM. Since then,…
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To everyone who surfed into Night After Night yesterday after news of my winning an ASCAP Concert Music Award became public – including the many who came via a supremely kind citation on my brilliant colleague Alex Ross's blog, The Rest Is Noise – thanks very much for stopping by. I'm thrilled by the recognition…
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