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Amalgam: Innovation
by Rex Butters
In the early '60s Trevor Watts and John Stevens initiated the long-lived free jazz association that became known as Amalgam. Their extended tenure altered Euro jazz and improvised music forever, following their first recording in '69. Tangent records released their third album, Innovation , in 1974, after their Play Blackwell and Higgins set and several sessions recorded with trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Weirdly saddled with a “jazz rock" reputation with the addition of guitarist Keith Rowe after these sessions, the Innovation ...
read moreOscar Lalo's Enchanting Jazz/Chanson Francaise Amalgam
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All About Jazz
October 23, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Oscar Lalo's Enchanting Jazz/Chanson Francaise Amalgam Frenchman Oscar Lalo's new CD, “Un Peu De Toi," is unique fusion of Jazz and French music. Inspired by Django Reinhardt and the Music of Hot Club of France with Stephan Grappelli, as well as French legends Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, and Michel Legrand, there’s a simple, pure and unaffected feeling to Oscar Lalo's music that crosses language barriers. Recorded in Paris in collaboration with ...
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Jazz Pianist Stuart H. Tresser (Hank Johnson) & Inventor discovers a substitute for dental amalgam
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All About Jazz
Besides being a jazz pianist, electrician, printer, now inventor Stuart H. Tresser has been hard at work trying to invent a substitute for amalgam fillings used by dentists presently which contains 50% mercury (a toxic metal). For over 150 years regular dental amalgam (the stuff fillings are made of)has found it's way into the mouths of millions of people! Toxic mercury fumes have contributed to cronic exposure to this poisonous metal, mercury. Using some simple basic chemistry, and knowledge of ...
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