American virtuoso keyboardist, jazz-rock fusion trailblazer and composer Chick Corea passed away on February 9th, 2021 at the age of 79 from a rare form…
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Abracadabra, Extraordinary Legacy of Soft Machine
Soft Works – Abracadabra in Osaka (Moonjune, 2020) The double album Abracadabra in Osaka, recorded in Japan in 2003 brought together some of the top…
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Dynamic Fusion Meets Imaginative Chamber Strings
Gavin Harrison and Antoine Fafard – Chemical Reactions (Harmonic Heresy, 2020) With bassist Antoine Fafard involved in a recording, you have the guarantee of a…
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Rising Star of Edgy European Fusion
The John Irvine Band – The Machinery of the Heavens (Head in the Door Records, 2020) The Machinery of the Heavens is a fantastic instrumental…
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Vocal Art and Sound Innovation from Potter’s Daughter
Potter’s Daughter – Casually Containing Rage (MRR, 2020) Potter’s Daughter plays a genre-bending form of progressive music, incorporating progressive rock, pop, jazz and avant-garde vocal…
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Bruford to Release Rock Goes To College on CD and DVD
Outstanding drummer Bill Bruford will release a CD and DVD package titled Bruford: Rock Goes To College. Release date is October 16, 2020. Bruford was…
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The Tangent Between Retro and Cutting Edge
The Tangent – Auto Reconnaissance (Inside Out Records, 2020) One thing you can say about The Tangent is that you never know what you‘re going…
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Isobar, Rising Talent from California
Isobar – Isobar (Trope Audio, 2020) Isobar is the self-titled debut album of a fantastic California progressive rock band called Isobar. The rising group plays…
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Scintillating Live Album from Soft Machine
Soft Machine – Live at the Baked Potato (MoonJune Records, 2020) Soft Machine, one of the pioneers of British jazz-rock fusion, returned in 2018 and…
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MoonJune Webcast with Alex Skolnick, Tim Motzer, Percy Jones, Kenny Grohowski
The Moonjune label will present a live webcast on Saturday, August 15, 2020 with guitarist Alex Skolnick, guitarist Tim Motzer, fretless bass player Percy Jones,…
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