Articles by Glen Hall

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  Rich Halley

  Back From Beyond

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2012

  This record features big sounds, plenty of chops and lots of lightning-quick interactions. Based in Portland, OR, tenor saxophonist Rich Ha...

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  Daphne Oram

  The Oram Tapes Volume One

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2012

  Unheralded for far too long, electronic music visionary Daphe Oram is beginning to receive some well-deserved attention. We've all been ben...

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  Ross Hammond Quartet

  Adored

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2012

  California is home to freethinkers of myriad stripes. Guitarist/composer Ross Hammond likes his music free, open-ended and inviting of coll...

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  Ion Zoo

  Venus Looks Good

  PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2012

  When done at a high artistic level, improvising is a high-wire act without a net. For instrumentalists, it involves finding the right notes...

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  Fennesz/Sakamoto

  Flumina

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2011

  An appropriate title, as the music produced by guitarist/laptopist Christian Fennesz and pianist/laptopist Ryuichi Sakamoto stays fully in...

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  Eve Egoyan

  Returnings: The Music of Ann Southam

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2011

  One of Canada's foremost new music composers, the late Ann Southam, had found a soulmate in pianist Eve Egoyan. But Returnings marks a clos...

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  Craig Pedersen Quartet

  Days Like Today

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2011

  Full of post-Ornette sonorities, Days Like Today has both free jazz looseness and post-bop structure. With opening antiphonal blats ceding...

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  Zeitkratzer

  Karlheinz Stockhausen: Old School

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2011

  One of the most influential composers of the last half-century, Stockhausen was no stranger to controversy. His meticulously structured ser...