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Whats Playing This Week...The Crumpletons Sampler, some live Curmpletons.

Four on Six and Road Song, by Wes Montgomery....performed live at Jazz on Mass. Concert Series..featuring Paul Miller on Bass and Rick Bruner on Drums

Last Mile....done live on guitar synth. at Jazz on Mass. Concert Series..featuring Paul Miller on Bass and Rick Bruner on Drums

Sleigh-Ride....John & Bill on acoustic guitars...with Alison on car keys and Jason Slote on whip

Lester and Fester, guitar synth and drum machine

New Aged....done on a keyboard

Ginger Man.... Recorded in the 70's with John Wilhite

Muleskinner Bluez guitar-synth and drum machine

Inter-Mounting-Flame-Out..using some of the classic John McLaughlin parts

Somethin' You Got...with Lea Lavish on Vocals, Rick Bruner vocals and drums, Kenny Lovern..B3

Playing with Billy Ebeling at Lawrence Liberty Hall..a lot of vids here..THERE IS ALSO, IN THE MENU SECTION, A USED PARTS VID AND A FRANK ZAPPA

River Cow Orchestra The Reviews are in for our latest CD RIVER COW ORCHESTRA - RAWHIDE (CDR by River Cow Orchestra) I played this one very often in the last few weeks. No problems in having this music filling our rooms like a perpetuum mobile. Listening to the River Cow Orchestra is enjoying the company of Brent Bowman (keyboards/sax), Greg Field (drums), C. Goff III (percussion, winds), Michael LaGrega (violin), John Lomas (guitar synthesizer), Allan McGinty (bass) and E.E. Pointer (trumpet). Only the name of Charles Goff III did ring a bell. He is a veteran of the independent music scene, running Taped Rug Productions since the 80s. The orchestra is specialized in long and open psychedelic improvisations. Making clear reference to the electric 70s work of Miles Davis. Especially in pieces like 'Chromatophore' where trumpeter Pointer does some of the solowork, the ghost of Miles Davis is very near. Most improvisations breath a relaxing and laid-back atmosphere. The music is grooving, but not in a funky, jazzy way, except for the first part of the last track 'Celebration of the Wind'. Surely this is not retromusic, reviving some pretended good old days. On the other hand, we are also not on the forefront of musical developments between these cows. But they do touch upon something. They create very open and wide structures and take time to develop things. This results in very captivating music that is never in a hurry and working very consequent to its goal. Their improvisations originate on stage or in the studio without much pretension. It's just there. They have at least one more CDR out, called ' Emerging'. But that is about all I know about their history. Kansas City, Missouri is their hometown and it is here that they do most of their live concerts. It is especially the strange and typical drumming by Greg Field that prevent these improvisations from becoming something we have heard many times before. He doesn't swing or funk or rock, but spreads out non-spectacular but binding patterns that work. (Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly, Netherlands)

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