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Peter Brötzmann: Soldier Of The Road
Soldier of the Road is a new documentary about saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, which is making the rounds of film festivals and is also available on all-region DVD. The Wire premiered an exclusive clip...
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The Thing
Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound CD) Buy it from Amazon The Thing & Barry Guy Metal! (NoBusiness 2LP) Buy it from the label by Phil Freeman The Norwegian/Swedish...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!!: 50-41
Welcome to the official Burning Ambulance countdown of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists Ever. The list was determined by means we shall not disclose, though a number of jazz critics and musicians offered...
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The Chicago Tentet 1998-2012
The Wire reports that Peter Brötzmann has decided to retire his Chicago Tentet, having come to the decision that the group has peaked creatively. He has written an open letter which reads as follows:...
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Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson
by Phil Freeman Saxophonists Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson performed as a duo for the first time ever at the Vancouver Jazz Festival in July 2011. (The photo above is by Peter Gannushkin; to see...
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Eric Revis
by Phil Freeman Bassist Eric Revis‘s second album for the Portuguese Clean Feed label, City of Asylum, was recently released. It’s a follow-up of sorts to Parallax, an album featuring saxophonist Ken...
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The Best Jazz Albums Of 2013: #15-11
We’re right at the midpoint of our countdown of the 25 best jazz albums of 2013. Click here to see #s 25-21, and click here to see #s 20-16. All caught up? Let’s continue! Best Jazz Albums of 2013,...
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The Metal Side Of Joe Morris
Slobber Pup: L-R Joe Morris, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi, Jamie Saft New England-based guitarist Joe Morris is best known for playing fleet, clean lines that combine bebop speed and precision with free...
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Rodrigo Amado
Photo: Vera Marmelo Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado is a restless musical traveler who, despite working firmly within the “free” idiom, prefers groups to ad hoc encounters, and genuine ideas...
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Marco Serrato
Painting: Javi Pessoa Marco Serrato is the bassist for Spanish doom/jazz/garage rock trio Orthodox, who have been discussed extensively on this site over the years. Suffice it to say, they’ll explode...
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The Thing
Scandinavian power-jazz trio The Thing—saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love—are back with Shake!, their first studio album since 2013’s Boot! That...
View ArticleInterview: Jamie Saft
by Brad Cohan It’s summertime in bucolic and peaceful Kerhonkson, New York, and Jamie Saft—the intrepid piano and electric keyboards titan and John Zorn and Bad Brains collaborator—is deep in his...
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BA Podcast 31: Rune Grammofon
The final Burning Ambulance podcast of 2018 is a very special episode. Back in May, I went to Norway for the Nutshell jazz showcase and interviewed several Norwegian jazz artists – that was in episode...
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Krzysztof Penderecki is one of Poland’s greatest composers. His works have expanded the parameters of orchestral music; his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, premiered in 1960, deployed extended...
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Photo: Eleonora Cerri Roots Magic is an Italian quartet: Alberto Popolla on clarinet and bass clarinet, Errico DeFabritiis on alto and baritone saxes, Gianfranco Tedeschi on bass, and Fabrizio Spera on...
View ArticleBurning Ambulance Music
Burning Ambulance, the arts and culture zine and website founded in 2010 by journalist Philip Freeman and artist I.A. Freeman, has grown over the last decade from a small print zine to a website and,...
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