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Phil James: Already Gone

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The integration of electronics with improvisation has taken a short and rocky course. The occasional use of the sampler is about as electronic as jazz usually gets without turning into cheese. But the full arsenal of turntables, loops and effects is successfully applied on Already Gone. From an electronica point of view, this would probably qualify as a form of “trance." From a jazz point of view, things are more complicated. Sparse improvisation motors forward through a thickly textured electronic ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Already Gone

Sparkling Beatnik Records
2000

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