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The Week's Can't-Miss Performance The Week's Can't-Miss Performance Russell Gunn aims outside the boundaries of jazz convention January 09, 2002

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Since emerging from Berlin's new-music scene in the mid-'70s, reedist Wolfgang Fuchs (above right) has left listeners grasping for words to describe his work. Fuchs' fragmentary runs and ability to hit both ends of the sonic register at once (pairing…
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Where some see jazz as a bop style that must be preserved, Vijay Iyer sees the form as a tradition of African-American experimentalism, open to and reshaped by the world's sounds. In the piano work of Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell,…
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Music, Hear This The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

Though the Brooklyn Sax Quartet is touring the West Coast to support its first CD, The Way of the Saxophone, it would be misleading to hail this as the group's debut. Tenorist David Bindman and altoist Sam Furnace have worked…
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Music, Hear This The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

Trumpeter Russell Gunn has the prodigy back-story that armchair critics love: He grew up in East St. Louis just like Miles Davis, got discovered at a 4 a.m. jam at the Blue Note by a scout for Wynton Marsalis, toured…
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    Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'. Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"

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