Articles by Glen Hall

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  Norbert Stein Pata Music

  Graffiti Suite

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  Jazz conceptualist Norbert Stein has spent his career exploring how to bring different musical minds together in collaborative, mutually st...

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  Thieke/Griener/Weber

  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  With a title like this, who could resist? Berlin-based reedist Michael Thieke is joined by bassist Christian Weber and drummer Michael Grie...

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  ARC Trio

  Triptych Mirror

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

  What makes this CD so compelling is its sheer musicality: when it’s textural, it paints with luminous colours and timbres; when it’s rhythm...

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  Fred Speck's Camp Combo

  Rock, Paper, Scissors

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

  After a long winter hibernating you may be thinking, "I need something to raise my spirits, something to give me an emotional spring cleani...

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  Spontaneous Music Ensemble

  Quintessence

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

  Free improvisation exists at the mercy of those nameless forces and currents of energy that sometimes propel and sometimes stall musicians...

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  ZMF Trio

  Circle the Path

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

  Circle the Path is simultaneously well crafted and spontaneously realised. And with such strong individualists involved the path the music...

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  Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

  Hot ‘N' Heavy: Live at the Ascension Loft

  PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2007

  Kahil El’Zabar has been a mainstay on the Chicago jazz scene for three decades and with this new incarnation of his Ethnic Heritage Ensembl...

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  The International Nothing

  Mainstream

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

  The gentle irony of the CD’s title gives a clue to the decidedly non-mainstream music within. Released on fledgling Tokyo label Ftarri, the...