Elements of Detroit techno, abstract laptop electronica, breakbeat-influenced cut-up drum programming, mysterious ambience, and masterful free jazz make up "Junk Magic." The result is possibly the most fully realized union of jazz and electronics to date from this formidable keyboardist and composer. Fellow musicians include drummer David King, violinist Mat Maneri, and tenor saxophonist Aaron Stewart.

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The second album by Michigan jazz pianist Craig Taborn -- known to most jazz fans as a sideman to James Carter -- is a giant leap past the adept musicianship shown on his DIW debut. Taborn's trio, with drummer extraordinaire Gerald Cleaver and new bassist Chris Lightcap, plays a kind of jazz that's new in a sense, even though it is rooted in time-honored traditions. In Taborn's pianism, Andrew Hill and Randy Weston meet Duke Pearson, Horace Silver, and {$Hilton Rui...   [ read more ]

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