Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Roswell Rudd

  Roswell Rudd

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  Roswell Rudd’s big, punchy trombone has graced the jazz improv world for nigh on 30 years. This 1965-era release on America Records has giv...

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  Martin Tetreault/Otomo Yoshihide

  1. Grrr

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  This CD marks the first in a series of releases by sound artists Martin Tetreault (Quebec) and Otomo Yoshihide (Japan). The music has been...

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  Charlie Hunter Trio

  Opera House, Toronto ON — October 30

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  I think we've all done this before. DJ Logic was responsible for one of the coolest, most musically advanced recordings of 2001 (Project Lo...

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  Charles Mingus

  Live At Montreux 1975

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  At the time of this performance, Charles Mingus fronted one of his strongest small bands (George Adams, Jack Walrath, Danny Richmond and Do...

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  Good for Cows

  Bebop Fantasy

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Devin Hoff plays acoustic bass and Ches Smith plays drums and they do it in California. This is a CD of duets that is neither bebop nor fan...

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  John Russell / Ute Völker / Mathieu Werchowski

  Three Planets

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  This CD is remarkable in several ways. The most important ones being that it is an acoustic recording and that it is a stellar example of d...

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  Eugene Chadbourne

  The History of the Chadbournes: Honky Tonk Im Nachtlokal

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Eugene Chadbourne is the uncle you wish you had: unkempt, slightly nuts, slightly smelly (B.O. and beer), bitchin’ guitar/banjo player, wil...

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  Sonore

  Goethe Institute, Toronto ON - September 3, 2004

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  The matrix conjured by Adolphe Sax (inventor of the saxophone) and the likes of such hoodoo shamans as Son House and Howlin' Wolf have give...