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Justin Walter: A Call To Arms

Read "A Call To Arms" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Justin Walter is the trumpeter in Ann Arbor-based band Nomo and a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Manhattan School of Music. A Call To Arms is his first album as leader and a marked contrast to his recordings with Nomo, a band with a distinctive take on Afrobeat rhythms, welding them to electronics and techno. A Call To Arms demonstrates another side to Walter's talents--it's a predominantly straight-ahead, post-bop album of Walter originals and two covers played ...

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His Name Is Alive: Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute To Marion Brown

Read "Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute To Marion Brown" reviewed by Chris May


Starting with a bold and beautiful idea--to perform a concert tribute to an iconic musician from an earlier age while that musician is still with us--His Name Is Alive have gone on to record an album of such oh-my-god beauty and vitality that the listener may at first be reduced to silent, slack-jawed wonder. And while we'll never know whether trumpeter Miles Davis would have approved bassist/producer Bill Laswell's reconstruction of his music on Panthalassa (Columbia, 1997), we do know ...

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His Name Is Alive: Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown

Read "Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Everything old is new again, even “the new thing is, well, “the new thing again.

In the 1960s, as the moldy conservatives and even the hard bop practitioners were trying to define jazz as one specific thing. Suddenly, the music exploded into multiple directions. Aided by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, adventurism jazz musicians like Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, Sun Ra, Joseph Jarman, and Marion Brown incorporated freedom and Afro-centric themes into the mix.

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His Name Is Alive: Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown

Read "Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown" reviewed by Troy Collins


Sweet Earth Flower: a tribute to Marion Brown is His Name Is Alive's meditative ode to the work of the under-sung free jazz saxophonist. Veterans of the American rock underground, His Name Is Alive has been exploring various musical tangents since the early 1990s, slowly moving closer and closer to a more improvisational, jazz-oriented base.

The brainchild of Michigan-based, multi-instrumentalist/producer Warren Defever, His Name Is Alive was initially signed to the illustrious British label 4AD, a ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

DARK MATTER - Life...

Walter Records
2013

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Stars

Belleayre Music Festival
2013

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A Call To Arms

Self Produced
2009

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Sweet Earth Flower: A...

High Two Recordings
2008

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