Sun Ra
At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976/1977 (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
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Kris Davis
Diatom Ribbons: Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
New Music Now 002: Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra
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Emma-Jean Thackray
Yellow (Movementt). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Can
Live In Stuttgart 1975 (Mute). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Szun Waves
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NRBQ
NRBQ (www.omnivorerecordings.com). Review by James Mann.
Free Radicals
Outside the Comfort Zone. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2
Star Stuff (Company Records). Review by James Mann.
Eszter Balint
Airless Midnight (Red Herring). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Sun Ra, Revisited
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The Jesus Lizard: Club
Matthew Moyer declares this the best approximation of the Jesus Lizard live experience.
I Love You, You Big Dummy
Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart has died of complications from MS at 69 – now that’s some Low Yo Yo stuff. James Mann recalls a genius.
Fela (Reissues!)
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Iggy and the Stooges: Escaped Maniacs
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Madlib/Peanut Butter Wolf
The Other Side of Los Angeles (Deaf, Dumb & Blind). Review by Chris Catania.
Lunch With Beardo
Surrealistic Picnic (FDH Records). Review by James Mann.
On-Call Plumber
Tom Schulte hears the bad CDs so you don’t have to. Herein are paragraphs on the good ones.
Baby Dodds
Talking and Drum Solos (1946) (Atavistic). Review by James Mann.
Sun Ra
Spaceship Lullaby (Atavistic ). Review by James Mann.
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