Articles by Glen Hall

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  John Kameel Farah

  Between Carthage and Rome

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2015

  Between Toronto and Berlin, his bases of operation, Canadian composer/pianist/visual artist John Kameel Farah is busy bridging continents &...

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  William S. Burroughs

  Nothing Here Now But the Recordings

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2015

  Novelist, painter, junkie, psychic explorer: William S. Burroughs is arguably one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Not...

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  Mlada Fronta

  Polygon/Night Run

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2014

  Artoffact's massive 10-CD Mlada Fronta career retrospective Every Thing was a sonic attack. But Polygon finds Fronta's Remy Pelleschi movin...

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  Fred Hersch / Michael Winther / The Fred Hersch Ensemble

  My Coma Dreams

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2014

  Pianist/composer Fred Hersch is a musician's musician, an artist of in-the-moment expressiveness. His playing and writing are expansive: fr...

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  Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble

  Saturated Colour

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2014

  Montreal-based composer/alto saxophonist Erik Hove is a musical chemist. He mixes differing amounts of jazz, classical and contemporary com...

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  Der lange Schatten

  Der lange Schatten

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2014

  The Berlin trio of Hâvard Wilk (piano), Michael Thieke (clarinet) and Antonio Borghini (bass) achieve a unity of hearing and empathy that i...

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  Ross Hammond and Grant Calvin Weston

  Blues and Daily News

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2014

  Rough and ready, Blues and Daily News exemplifies the work-with-present-opportunities approach that is the daily reality of improvising mus...

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  Peripheral Vision

  Sheer Tyranny of Will

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2014

  Long-time musical brothers Michael Herring (bass) and Don Scott (guitar) have developed a strong rapport that powers both their music and t...