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John Zorn
Templars in Sacred Blood (Tzadik) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon This is the sixth album by saxophonist and composer John Zorn‘s Moonchild ensemble. The group began its life as a trio—vocalist Mike...
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Spectrum Road
Spectrum Road is a new group featuring guitarist Vernon Reid, keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana; their brief, basically, is to keep the music of the Tony...
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Moonchild At Moers
Happy Halloween! Here’s video of John Zorn‘s Moonchild performing Templars in Sacred Blood in its entirety at this year’s Moers Festival, back in May. (I reviewed the album last June.) The band...
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Simulacrum
John Zorn‘s latest group, Simulacrum, has come out of the gate fast and hard. They’ve released three albums so far this year—a self-titled debut in March, The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons in...
View ArticleJohn Frum
by Todd Manning Combining death metal with a distinct jazz influence is often treated as a radical notion, but if the metal community is being perfectly honest with itself, these two genres have been...
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BA Podcast 5: Matt Hollenberg
Burning Ambulance has launched a podcast series, which will feature interviews with artists from the realms of jazz, modern composition, metal, noise, and whatever else interests us—much like the site...
View ArticleBen Perowsky
They say good things come to those who wait, and Upstream, the debut album by the trio led by drummer Ben Perowsky, along with John Medeski on organ and Chris Speed on saxophone and clarinet, has been...
View ArticleJeff Cosgrove
Drummer Jeff Cosgrove isn’t that well known yet, but he’s built an impressive catalog of recordings over the last decade. His first album as a leader, 2011’s For the Love of Sarah, was a collection of...
View ArticleTypical Sisters
Dancing the fine line between several genres, multi-national trio Typical Sisters have just released their third full-length, Love Beam, via Joyful Noise Recordings. Consisting of guitarist Gregory...
View ArticleChaos Magick
In 2015, prolific composer John Zorn debuted Simulacrum, a trio featuring organist John Medeski, guitarist Matt Hollenberg, and drummer Kenny Grohowski. He did not play with the group, but he wrote...
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