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'Blogarrhea: The Most Oddball Music in the World, Five CDs Worthy of Attention

I take my job seriously. Finding music like the following five CDs was no easy task. From a big-band with 13 trombones and a genre-bending post-bopper to a crazy alternative band, a tribute to pianist Oscar Peterson by a guitarist and a Canadian duo who favors ragtime gypsy jazz, there's something here for every open ear.
  • 'REVIEW: Christian Weidner, 'Every Hour of the Light and Dark,' Pirouet Records

    Christian Weidner's alto saxophone flies over the piano/bass/drums rhythm section of his groundbreaking quartet on 'Every Hour of the Light and Dark' (Pirouet Records). It's a heady concoction whose circuitous road is so delicious that while the destination remains unknown, it's the getting there that's all the fun.
  • 'REVIEW: Mats Eilertsen, 'Rubicon,' ECM Records

    There's a subtle sophistication at work on Mats Eilertsen's ECM 'Rubicon' debut. His bass has already graced 12 previous ECM sessions of other artists as produced by Manfred Eicher, but now, just like Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., whose army crossed the Rubicon River knowing it was too late to turn back, Mats has laid the gauntlet down. His septet is rather wondrous. And there's no looking back.
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