Exposé print issues (1993-2011)
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One of the things about blues music that always loses my interest is the relative lack of harmonic sophistication: the blues almost by definition stick to a set of three or four chords for each...
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James Johnson is one of ambient music’s most prolific collaborators nowadays, and as I write this, a 2 CD set with Vir Unis is also now available. The first of the two CDs in question here,...
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In Focus, Jan Akkerman was one of the most interesting and distinctive rock guitarists of the 70s, and with this solo album, originally released in 1973, he showed an amazing range. Six of the ten...
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I’m probably not unique in my history with Jean-Luc Ponty. I discovered his inventive, melodic jazz-fusion violin playing with his albums of the 70s like Enigmatic Ocean and...
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Ponty has staked out a claim over the past 30 years as fusion’s best-known violinist, and he has made numerous albums that belong in the Fusion Hall of Fame (if such a thing existed). He has...
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Bassist Jeff Johnson is one of the regulars in the Origin Records stable, and these two releases see him as leader, first of a trio with drummer Billy Mintz and reedman Hans Teuber, then with a...
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With this collection of seventeen tracks, John Greaves forgoes his skill for obtuse arrangements and bawdy bass playing for a strictly vocal pass through latenight torch singer terrain. Assisted by...
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John Martyn has been writing personal songs and singing them in his inimitable style for quite some time now, and while he has never become the household name that Van Morrison or Joe Cocker has,...
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Keyboard wizard Rudess has come up with a chop-filled progressive / fusion outing that should be extremely enticing to fans of the genre. The basic “band” is the remarkable Terry Bozzio...
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An all-star cast that includes guitarists Steve Morse and John Petrucci, drummer Terry Bozzio, bassist Billy Sheehan, and violinist Mark Wood joins Jordan Rudess for his latest release —...
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