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- Music, Music Review Nov 17, 2020
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Veteran pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn releases her first album as a bandleader
- Music, Music Review Oct 5, 2020
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Mary Halvorson recruits singer Robert Wyatt to take her Code Girl project to the next level
- Music, Music Review Aug 11, 2020
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Thumbscrew helps Anthony Braxton celebrate 75 years by recording some of his lesser-known compositions
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 31, 2020
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Brooklyn-based saxophone and drum duo meld composition and improvisation seamlessly
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 25, 2019
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Cellist and former Chicagoan Tomeka Reid celebrates the release of her quartet’s second album
- Music, Music Feature Sep 30, 2019
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Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2018
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Drummer Tomas Fujiwara fuels his writing by recruiting musicians in contrasting pairs
On his latest album, Triple Double, Tomas Fujiwara trusts his strong-voiced collaborators—and trusts himself to hold his own among them.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 30, 2017
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Seven portraits of the Chicago Jazz Festival
The compelling characters on this year’s lineup include avant-garde elder Roscoe Mitchell, indefatigable experimenter Mary Halvorson, and defiantly joyful South African survivor Louis Moholo-Moholo.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 29, 2017
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Mary Halvorson’s band keeps getting bigger—and better
The New York guitarist brings her daring but sophisticated octet to Chicago for the first time.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2017
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Jason Moran reimagines the music of Charles Mingus; guitarist Bern Nix dead at 69
The ingenious pianist and composer collaborates with the idiosyncratic singer Georgia Anne Muldrow tonight at Symphony Center; meanwhile, the innovative guitarist who made his mark in Ornette Coleman's Prime Time band has passed.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2017
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Winter Jazzfest electrifies a chilly New York weekend
Standouts among more than 150 strong groups included Bill McHenry & Andrew Cyrille, Marc Ribot's Young Philadelphians, and Battle Trance.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2016
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Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad does what the Dead don't
New recordings by the Hedwig Mollestad Trio bring sophisticated improvisational gambits to hard-rock settings.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 30, 2015
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Peter Margasak's favorite albums of 2015, numbers 20 through 11
Veteran Reader critic Peter Margasak continues counting down his 40 favorite records of the year—this installment includes Mary Halvorson, Vijay Iyer, and Ryley Walker.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2015
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson personalizes her favorites on a new solo album
On Meltframe she uses the compositions of others to say plenty about herself.
- Music, Record Roundup Jul 1, 2014
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Robin Thicke's morbidly fascinating Paula and 15 more record reviews
Eight Reader writers take on 16 albums—including White Lung's witchy two-minute mantras, Monarch's crawling tectonic doom, and Sir Michael Rocks's bleakly sunny party rap.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: "Cheap Knock Off," some appealingly knotty free jazz by Thumbscrew
The trio of guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara releases its debut album.
- Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2013
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson makes her presence felt
Guitarist Mary Halvorson, who performs tonight with violist Jessica Pavone at the Washington Park Arts Incubator, has been on a tear lately
- Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 5/31: Chicago Jazz String Summit, the Chicago Turkish Festival, and One Million Degrees
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 31
- Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2013
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The easy stylistic yin and yang of drummer Ches Smith
Ches Smith, who rolls through Chicago next week in Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, easily straddles ideas from both jazz and rock in his great quintet These Arches.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2013
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My favorite albums of 2012, numbers 20 through 11
Part three of my favorite albums of 2012 countdown
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2011
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Umbrella Music Festival announces its 2011 program
This year's Umbrella Music Festival features Franz Hautzinger, Ab Baars, Sten Sandell, Tim Berne, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, and Mary Halvorson.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2010
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Best Jazz of 2010
My ballot for the 2010 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2010
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Fancy Pop, Tomorrow at the Whistler
New York orch-pop quartet the Fancy—with a lineup including former Chicagoans Katherine Young and Amy Cimini—makes its local debut.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2009
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Ken Vandermark in the Belly of the Beast
