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Brandon Ross, Vinnie Sperrazza & Gordon Grdina

Read "Brandon Ross, Vinnie Sperrazza & Gordon Grdina" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


It's deep, it's different, it's unique and definitely original--the music of guitarist Brandon Ross & Phantom Station. Off The End is the feature album in this episode. Also new, drummer Vinnie Sperrazza & Apocryphal, the very creative guitar/oud player Gordon Grdina with two different albums, and a bunch of interesting music from Europe: saxophonist Signe Emmeluth Friends & Neighbors and the Scheen Jazzorkester with Cortex from Norway, Italian groups Looty Trio & Circles 44, Bulliphan} from Belgium, and Portugal's Old ...

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Liner Notes

Butch Morris: Current Trends in Racism in Modern America

Read "Butch Morris: Current Trends in Racism in Modern America" reviewed by Howard Mandel


When a full house of ardent downtown music followers flocked to the old Kitchen, a performance loft on Broome Street in Manhattan's artsy Soho district on the cold night of February 1, 1985 to hear Current Trends in Racism in Modern America by Lawrence Douglas “Butch" Morris--I don't recall if it was advertised as “Conduction No. 1"--no one knew what to expect. At that time, as now, Butch was an inspired and productive presence on a diversified music ...

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Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations

Read "Fire Illuminations" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Eighty-one year old trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith comes out flaring like Bitches Brew era Miles Davis, as Fire Illuminations jumps the funk rock from the break of the muscular conflagration “Ntozake." And the grunge jazz clips along as guitarists Nels Cline, Brandon Ross, and Lamar Smith vie, bite, sting, and quarrel over an insistent bass drum power-groove courtesy of bassists Bill Laswell and Melvin Gibbs, percussionist Mauro Refosco, drummer Pheeroan aKlaff, and the deep space electronics of Hardedge.

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Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations

Read "Fire Illuminations" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith fronts lots of different bands and puts out lots of albums. After a busy period when he released five boxed sets, totaling 27 CDs, here he debuts his new all-star ensemble Orange Wave Electric, with the download-only offering, Fire Illuminations. As the band name implies, the sound is electric, featuring three electric guitarists, two electric bassists and an electronicist, joining the leader's horn, percussionist Mauro Refosco and drummer Pheeroan aKLaff. For comparison's sake--and using ...

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Album Review

Fred Hopkins/Diedre Murray Quartet: Prophecy

Read "Prophecy" reviewed by AAJ Staff


In the late '80s, Fred Hopkins and Diedre Murray made an effective duo. Their unusual combination of bass and cello allowed for some interesting musical statements. Shortly thereafter they formed a quartet to expand this sound. The new members: Brandon Ross (guitar) and Newman Baker (drums). All four members played at one time or another in Henry Threadgill's groups. The stated idea behind the 1990 recording Prophecy emphasizes continuity and fluidity of musical thought.

Within a fairly straight-ahead setting, soloists ...

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Album Review

Fred Hopkins & Diedre Murray Quartet: Prophecy

Read "Prophecy" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Sadly, the inimitable bassist Fred Hopkins passed away on Thursday, January 7, 1999. Fred Hopkins was one of the busiest bassists in Chicago's creative music scene and often the bassist of choice for countless recording projects with dozens of performers too numerous to cite here. On the recently released Prophecy which was recorded in 1990 we get a glimpse of the much heralded Fred Hopkins/Diedre Murray Quartet. According to Ms. Murray, 'This was the first recording of a quartet that ...

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Performance / Tour

Reddy Music Concert Series Presents Rob Reddy Quintet and Brandon Ross Intention April 28th

Reddy Music Concert Series Presents Rob Reddy Quintet and Brandon Ross Intention April 28th

Source: Improvised Communications

Saturday, April 28th at 9:00 p.m. The Reddy Music Concert Series presents: Rob Reddy Quintet Brandon Ross Intention Jalopy Theater 315 Columbia Street in Brooklyn, NY

Rob Reddy, alto and soprano saxophones; Charles Burnham, violin and mandolin; Jef Lee Johnson, guitars; Dom Richards, double bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums

Brandon Ross, guitar, banjo and vocals; Will Martina, cello; JT Lewis, drums

On Saturday, April 28th, the Reddy Music Concert ...

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Performance / Tour

MoMA To Present Brandon Ross And Blazing Beauty In Final Summergarden Jazz Concert On August 13

MoMA To Present Brandon Ross And Blazing Beauty In Final Summergarden Jazz Concert On August 13

Source: All About Jazz

Summergarden 2006: New Music for New York Brandon Ross and Blazing Beauty The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden Sunday, August 13, 2006 Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m. Concert begins at 8:00 p.m. Admission is FREE NEW YORK, July 31, 2006--Summergarden, The Museum of Modern Art's free concert series in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, presents its final summer concert with Brandon Ross and Blazing Beauty, organized in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, on ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Fire Illuminations

Kabell Records
2023

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Of Sight and Sound

Sunnyside Records
2023

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Soul Searching

Firecracker Music
2023

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OUTLINE SOUL SEARCHING

Firecracker Music
2023

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Sound Aspects
2010

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Puppet

Parallactic Recordings
2006

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