Articles by Glen Hall

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  Laconnor

  Laconnor

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

  The music of LaConnor is a telling example of the individualism that is appearing more and more in Canadian improvised music. Clarinetist F...

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  Branford Marsalis

  Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  John Coltrane recorded his acknowledged masterwork, A Love Supreme, as a heartfelt prayer of gratitude to God. His artistic vision never bu...

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  Al Di Meola

  Al Di Meola - Live at Montreux 1986/1993

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  Di Meola can be a heroic guitar wanker, and in the 1986 solo sequence of tunes this persona is in full cry. Bombastic arpeggios and blister...

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  'Lofsky/Basso/DeFrancesco/Rezza

  One Take Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  One Take is an uncluttered document of four musicians "conversing" on a variety of standards tunes with musicality and wit. And with a line...

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  Clarinet Trio

  Ballads and Related Objects

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  You might be forgiven for not expecting a trio of clarinetists to tear things up. But The Clarinet Trio — Gebhard Ullmann, Jürgen Kupke and...

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  Sonny Simmons

  Jewels

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  Deprived of an interactive foil, a responsive rhythm section, Simmons’ solo musings are at a disadvantage, as there is no context in which...

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  John Heward Trio

  Let Them Pass (laissez-passer)

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Damn, these guys play! From bar one of the first of seven pieces, all titled "Let Them Pass,” John Heward (drums), Joe Giardullo (reeds) an...

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  Poire_Z + Phil Minton

  Q

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Free improv can be a messy, rough and tumble affair. Ideas get trampled in the rush to be heard, in the effort to make presence felt. So Q...