On Meltframe she uses the compositions of others to say plenty about herself.
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Robin Thicke’s morbidly fascinating Paula and 15 more record reviews
This month’s release roundup includes White Lung’s witchy two-minute mantras, Monarch’s crawling tectonic doom, and Sir Michael Rocks’s bleakly sunny party rap.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Cheap Knock Off,” some appealingly knotty free jazz by Thumbscrew
The trio of guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara releases its debut album.
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson makes her presence felt
Guitarist Mary Halvorson, who performs tonight with violist Jessica Pavone at the Washington Park Arts Incubator, has been on a tear lately
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 5/31: Chicago Jazz String Summit, the Chicago Turkish Festival, and One Million Degrees
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, May 31
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The easy stylistic yin and yang of drummer Ches Smith
Ches Smith, who rolls through Chicago next week in Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, easily straddles ideas from both jazz and rock in his great quintet These Arches.
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My favorite albums of 2012, numbers 20 through 11
Part three of my favorite albums of 2012 countdown
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Umbrella Music Festival announces its 2011 program
This year’s Umbrella Music Festival features Franz Hautzinger, Ab Baars, Sten Sandell, Tim Berne, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, and Mary Halvorson.
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Fancy Pop, Tomorrow at the Whistler
New York orch-pop quartet the Fancy—with a lineup including former Chicagoans Katherine Young and Amy Cimini—makes its local debut.
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Ken Vandermark in the Belly of the Beast
Hannes Reisinger Ken Vandermark Earlier this year I interviewed Ken Vandermark for a feature that ran in Down Beat magazine. One of the things he discussed but that didn’t make it into that article was his apparent invisibility to the U.S. jazz establishment. There’s no question he has a rabid following in the States, but […]
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Vox Arcana, back from tour, play the Hideout on Wednesday
We’re about to hear a lot from James Falzone, one of the best straight-up clarinet players in Chicago’s jazz and improvised-music community—most other jazz musicians who play clarinet treat it as an accessory to their saxophones, but for Falzone it’s his principal horn. His quartet Klang—with vibist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke, and drummer Tim […]
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The List, July 23-29, 2009
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Novalima and Issa Bagayogo, Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers, Obits, the Dead Weather, and more
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Instincts louder than words
Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone bring their peculiar, gut-trusting music to the Hideout.