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Gig review: INTERPLAY – Le Chaudron, Montignac, SW France, 17 January 2020
Jazz is alive, well and prospering in the inventive hands of a French modern quartet called Interplay. There was once a time when jazz fusion and rock almost coalesced and took the music beyond its historical antecedents. And while Interplay … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, Charles Mingus, Chic Corea, Dave Brubeck, Denis Gautier, Didier Villalba, Dore, Ella Fitzgerald, Emilio Fabrice Leroy, Franck Mathieu, funk, fusion, Herbie Hancock, improvisation, Interplay, jazz, Le Chaudron, Lee Hazlewood, live gig, Miles Davis, Montignac, Pink Floyd, review, rock, SW France, Wayne Shrter
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Album review: CURVED AIR – The Curved Air Rarities Series Volume 1 – Tapestry Of Propositions
Curved Air Records [Release date 05.08.16] We live in age when every album, every gig, seems to be heavily choreographed. With albums pieced together and artists not necessarily sharing the same studio, or even continent, and gigs fixed to a … Continue reading