Free Jazz review by Paolo Casertano
Paradoxical Frog – Union (CF 262) ****½ What a fascinating album! If you have the chance, as I did, to listen to it in a rainy day and with a pair of comfortable headphones you will be immediately...
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Paradoxical Frog – Union (CF 262) ****½ Not so long ago at the MOMA in NYC there was a featured exhibition called “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano.” It was in a...
View ArticleOtro Jazz best of 2012 list by Pedro Cesar Beas
Hugo Carvalhais Trio / Particula (Clean Feed) Jason Robinson / Tiersian Symmetry (Cuneiform) Wadada Leo Smith / Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform) Eric Revis / Parallax (Clean Feed) Marilyn Crispell /...
View ArticleThe New York City Jazz Record review by Wilbur MacKenzie
Paradoxical Frog – Union (CF 262) Each member of Paradoxical Frog (pianist Kris Davis, saxist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tyshawn Sorey) is both player and composer and the band’s second album Union...
View ArticleFree Jazz best of 2012 list by every member of the team
End-of-year Lists Galore Allright, here they are then, the albums of the year 2012 as selected by the entire review team of the Free Jazz Collective. Each reviewer presented his (unfortunately not her)...
View ArticleGapplegate Music review by Grego Edwards
Paradoxical Frog - Union (CF 262) Paradoxical Frog returns with a second album, Union (Clean Feed 262), that continues in a way where the first left off (see earlier review on these pages via the...
View ArticleExpresso and Cuíca Dodecafónica review by João Santos
Paradoxical Frog – Union (CF 262) O espécime parecia um provocatório oximoro e, de facto, a audição, em 2010, do ensaio inaugural desta banda com filiação nominal na pseudis paradoxa – a rã que encolhe...
View ArticleJazz.pt review by João Moço
Paradoxical Frog – Union (CF 262) Em certos momentos, a pianista Kris Davis como que “cita” Thelonious Monk. Já Ingrid Laubrock traz, por vezes, à memória Anthony Braxton. Seja como for, a música...
View ArticleAll About Jazz Italy review by Andrea Calió
Paradoxical Frog – Union (CF 262) Album prettamente free-jazz, Union è la seconda e ultima (per ora) fatica del trio Paradoxical Frog, che annovera Ingrid Laubrock al sax, Kris Davis al piano e Tyshawn...
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