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Return Of The New Thing: Alchemy

Read "Alchemy" reviewed by Nic Jones


This quartet mines some open spaces with commitment but the results aren't really all that involving. This is due in no small part to the fact that their focus seems to ebb and flow. This results in music that's at some moments diffuse, and at others full of the kind of all-out intensity that's mostly rhetoric and little substance.

The three track titles refer only to the duration of each piece in minutes and seconds. That nominal approach applies to ...

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Live Review

Return of The New Thing Triumph in Krakow

Read "Return of The New Thing Triumph in Krakow" reviewed by Philip Palmer


Return of The New Thing Klub AlchemiaKrakow, Poland June 16, 2007

Last month, Krakow's Alchemia hosted a night of spontaneous improvisations by the Paris-based free- jazz unit, Return of The New Thing. The unique atmosphere of the club, which is located in Krakow's old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, has been attracting the cream of the free jazz scene over the last few years. For enthusiasts of adventurous music it is a kind of Mecca, ...

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Return of the New Thing: Return of the New Thing

Read "Return of the New Thing" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Has it really been away? The New Thing, that is. There are quite a few practitioners of the now almost forty-year-old New Thing who have by now illustrious careers behind them: Mr. Braxton, Mr. McPhee, Mr. Parker, and many many more. But those men - and many others - have moved far beyond where they were in the Sixties, and so maybe it's a different facet of the New Thing that's returning. The cover of this disc, after all, pictures ...

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Return of the New Thing - Alchemia (Not Two, 2008) ****a1/2

Return of the New Thing - Alchemia (Not Two, 2008) ****a1/2

Source: All About Jazz

If you like creative, genre-bending, fully improvised, expansive and energetic free jazz, then you will surely enjoy this. The British-French quartet, consisting of Dan Warburton on piano and violin, Jean-Luc Guionnet on alto sax, Francois Fuchs on bass and Edward Perraud on drums, has a real take-no-prisoners approach. The three long tracks (approx. 29, 24 and 17 minutes, aptly titled 29:09, 24:41 and 17:20), are a pure powerhouse of full-speed intensity and unrelenting energy. Once in a while the wall ...

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Alchemy

Not Two Records
2008

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Crescendo

Sony Records
2006

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Traque

Sony Records
2003

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Return Of The New...

Sony Records
1999

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