Guitarist Nels Cline is known for injecting deranged new life into music as disparate as that of Wilco, Ornette Coleman, Rickie Lee Jones, and Kris … Read More “The Nels Cline Singers: Share the Wealth (Blue Note)”
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Is there a place for metal bloodletting in your free jazz stew? Nels Cline thinks so. He, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonist Larry Ochs fall … Read More “Larry Ochs/Nels Cline/Gerald Cleaver: What Is to Be Done (Clean Feed)”
Guitarist Nels Cline has always been a sucker for music that’s a bit mystifying—not easily described, transcribed or summarized. So no one should be shocked … Read More “The Nels Cline 4: Currents, Constellations (Blue Note)”
You know you’re at the Big Ears Festival when Nathan Bowles, banjo and bones player for the old-time string band the Black Twig Pickers, enthusiastically … Read More “Live Review: Big Ears 2018”
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Guitarists highlight Downtown Music Gallery’s 21st anniversary bash
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It’s easy to focus on Nels Cline’s jack-of-all-trades work ethic, but what really makes the guitarist so significant is the consistency he brings to all … Read More “The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate”
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