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Album Review

Lunge: Strong Language

Read "Strong Language" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This British improv troupe has been together for five years, as the synergy shows on this effort, which features works recorded live in concert and in the studio. Not your average instrumentation mix for sure, as the quartet incorporates dabs of electronic effects with an organic sound.

On the opener “Planarchy,” Gail Brand’s muted trombone attack rides atop percussionist Mark Sanders' tumbling tom rolls amid spurts of quaintly rendered EFX by Phil Durrant and Pat Thomas. Besides ...

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Performance / Tour

Captain Hook "Plunge!" CD Release Party on July 2 at de Melkweg in Amsterdam

Captain Hook "Plunge!" CD Release Party on July 2 at de Melkweg in Amsterdam

Source: Michael Ricci

Captain Hook proudly presents their third album Plunge! Saturday the 2nd of July 2011 at de Melkweg in Amsterdam. Captain Hook is a funk jazz quintet from the Netherlands. They play high-energy grooves with catchy melodies and freaky improvisations. 70's-fender rhodes sounds go together with nu-beats, heavy guitar riffs and bebopish saxophone licks. Captain Hook delivers a cool now-a-days mix of dansable jazz and exciting soundscapes. The five bandmembers of Captain Hook are clearly acquainted with each other and have ...

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Recording

Plunge Brings Chamber Jazz to a Good Place in "Tin Fish Tango"

Plunge Brings Chamber Jazz to a Good Place in "Tin Fish Tango"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

New Orleans is a trombone town. Aside from Kid Ory and the tailgate players. Today for example you have Delfeayo Marsalis, Jeff Albert and . . . Mark McGrain. It is with the latter of the three that we concern ourselves today. He is an integral member of the trio Plunge, the others being James Singleton on contrabass and and Tim Green on alto. They are joined by guests reedman Tom Fitzpatrick and Kirk Joseph on Sousaphone for several numbers ...

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Recording

Catching up (1): Plunge, Asmussen, Koorax

Catching up (1): Plunge, Asmussen, Koorax

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

2009 brought to the Rifftides doorstep an unprecedented number of albums hoping for attention. If I had listened all day every day this year, I could not have paid proper attention to even a small percentage of them. I have been attempting to catch up with some of the CDs in the stacks that occupy what's left of my floor space (shelves are no longer available). In this series of posts, I will call to your attention a few of ...

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