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‘Alive!’ is the new live album by Fantastic Negrito, put together from performances recorded in Trieste, Brooklyn, Rubigen, Sogliano and Leeds.

The places and audiences change, but the idea behind the shows remains fairly simple. Negrito wants to connect with the people in the room, put the ego aside and give everything he has. He calls it “church without the religion.”

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Alan Gerber was just 20 when Paul Rothchild at Elektra Records gave him a choice: cut a solo album or join a new band the label was putting together. He went with the band. It became Rhinoceros.

Rhinoceros was put together in a pretty unusual way, even for the late 60s. Instead of coming out of a local scene, Elektra basically assembled the band from different places. The fi...

Sacramento experimental rock group NÛS return with ‘Magic in the Trees’, taken from their forthcoming album, ‘Shapes of Longing’, out October 15 via Third Star Records.

NÛS have a history stretching back to Sacramento in the early ’90s. The original group of Percy Howard, Stephen Sullivan, Richard Kazanjian and drummer Greg Cain signed with Sub Rosa in 1995, leading to ‘All ...

The drummer on Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, ‘Spectrum’ and ‘Times of My Life’.

Billy Cobham has been part of the story of jazz fusion for more than fifty years, although he has never seemed particularly interested in taking much credit for it. He recorded with Miles Davis, joined John McLaughlin in the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, and then made ‘Spectrum’, a record t...

ALICE NOT JOHN
Episode 28: A Fictional Radio Transmission
Guest: CJ Bolland
Host: Joeri Bruyninckx

A conversation I overheard in a record store:

Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”
Customer: “I mean Alice, not John.”
R...