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The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - For Marcus (Dissertation Honey, 2003)

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BLOOD ON THE TRACKS — In the year of the startling Are You Glad to be in America?, Vivien Goldman meets avant-jazz axeman James Blood Ulmer and his former boss Ornette Coleman (NME, 1980). Plus Don Snowden surveys the "punk jazz" of Ulmer, James Chance and Defunkt. (L.A. Times, 1981) and Blood looks back in 1998 with Perfect Sound Forever's Jason Gross…

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WorldService Project - Hiding In Plain Sight - most bands billed as “punk-jazz” skimp on the punk, but there’s plenty in evidence here. Even the synths are punkish! (RareNoise Records)

For this latest incarnation of WorldService Project, Morecroft assembled a streamlined group that adeptly navigates the composer’s perilous straits between taut avant-funk discipline and feral improvisatory blowouts. Bassist and vocalist Arthur O’Hara has been a mainstay of the band since 2015, though the remainder is an alchemical admixture of newcomers: saxophonist Ben Powling, drummer/percussionist Luke Reddin-Williams and, on four of the album’s nine tracks, trombonist Kieran McLeod. Together they summon a sound that walks the tightrope between precision avant-funk and free-form exploration, bridging eras between UK punk-jazz breakouts of the 00s (Acoustic Ladyland, the F-IRE Collective) and the modern psych-jazz grooves of The Comet Is Coming and Sons of Kemet.

Dave Morecroft – Keyboards / Vocals Ben Powling – Saxophones Arthur O’Hara – Bass / Vocals Luke Reddin-Williams – Drums / Percussion + Kieran McLeod – Trombone (tracks 2,6,8,9)

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The Box, first NME interview, spring 1982, by Amrik Rai. 

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Joy on Fire - Hymn - skronk-rock trio from Princeton, New Jersey

Joy on Fire is: John Paul Carillo, bass-guitar Anna Meadors, saxophone Chris Olsen, drum set and special guests Pascal Le Boeuf, piano, track 2 Rachel Aubuchon, piano, track 3 Domenica Romagni, cello, track 3

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Happy new year and welcome back... in the first episode of 2020, Mark, Barney & Jasper celebrate the 40th birthday of James Blood Ulmer's startling Are You Glad to be in America? Pringle waxes lyrical about seeing Ulmer live and about the man's influence on his own guitar-playing – and then, with his colleagues, discusses the "punk-jazz" scene that coalesced around JBU, James Chance, Defunkt and others.

RBP's power trio then considers amusing interviews with Billy Idol (1987), Gerry [and the Pacemakers] Marsden (1997) and Solomon Burke (2002) by New Zealander and former Rip It Up editor Chris Bourke. (Honorary mentions, along the way, to Nik Cohn, Nick Lowe and Jürgen Klopp.)

Mark intros a discussion of the week's new audio interview – with Joan Baez in 1992 – by playing a clip of America's folk queen describing how she's (temporarily) let go of her political activism. Baez's significance and legacy are considered after a second clip about learning how hard it is to write songs when you're not Bob Dylan.

Mark also talks us through his highlights of the week's new library additions, including a report on hanging out with Madeline Bell in swinging '60s London that reads like a scene from Austin Powers; Sounds' Dave McCullough bemoaning the joyless postpunk of the Raincoats and the Mekons in 1979; and Police man Stewart Copeland and others on the art of drumming in 1988…

By contrast, Jasper revisits the return of avant-funk postpunks 23 Skidoo in 2000, a probing biog of Beyoncé from 2015 and the musings of Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie in 2016…

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GLAZUNOV, Unidentified Flying Music

Live@ SPAZIO SOCIALE LA BOJE, Mantova, Str. Chiesanuova.

SABATO 20 FEBBRAIO 2016, ore 22.00

Giorgio Signoretti, guitar; Nicola Bardini, tenor&soprano sax; Gabriele Rampi, bass; Andrea Lovo, drums;

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Listen to: Greed by MazzSacre - punk-jazz that actually delivers both punk and jazz

"+" is a new studio album form Jerzy Mazzoll - one Poland's most renowned free jazz musicians. The recordings took place in 2012 and 2014 and Mazzoll was assisted by (among others) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (well known for his work with John Zorn) and Radek Dziubek of alternative all-star combo Innercity Ensemble.

"+" is a unique album in Mazzoll's discography - more of a studio experiment than standard recording. - "+" took a very different path to come into life - admits Mazzoll. - First I recorded a series of solo compositions for a bassoon clarinet and this later became the foundation for next recordings. Then came Shanir who played (on oud, double bass and bass guitar) along chosen tracks, pretty much as he would do with a script, and the drummers - one of whom didn't get to hear my tracks, and the other Shanir's.

The whole line-up for this record includes: Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (oud, double bass, bass guitar), Jacek Stromski (drums), Piotr Dunajski (trombone), Mariusz Kawalec (alto saxophone), Oleg Dziewanowski (drums) and Radek Dziubek (electronics). All the tracks were mastered by Marcin Dymiter (Emiter) and the artwork was created by Marcin Łojek.

Jerzy Mazzoll – bass clarinet Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – double bass, oud, electric bass guitar Oleg Dziewanowski – drums and percussion Radek Dziubek – live electronics and noisy post creation Jacek Stromski – drums Piotr Dunajski – trombone Mariusz Kawalec – alt saxophone

Recorded in Radio Gdańsk 2011 and 2014 Sound recording: Marek Iwanowski Premix and studio tracks production by Michal Kolowacik Post-production by Radek Dziubek Mastering by Marcin Dymiter Production by Mazzoll, Piotr Jagielski, Filip Wilczyński