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Laptop computer pioneer Ikue Mori is a musician with a vision. Mori began her career as an untutored drummer in the seminal no wave group DNA, than transformed herself into an improviser who juggles an array of interconnected drum-machines and samplers, and again into a laptop computer player who no longer bases her musical language on rhythmic ... (more)

A record company was born in NYC in 1995 that was the start of something extremely special for all kinds of music: Tzadik.

There are many possible 'correct' answers to the question "What makes a jazz drummer interesting?" Groove? Yes.

In the Reader 's latest installment of In Rotation , Rabbit Factory Records honcho and East of Edens Soul Express DJ John Ciba chose as one of his three obsessions Swingin' Snowflakes Jingle Jangle Jazz Party 2011 Christmas Mix , the latest in a series of collections of obscure holiday music assembled for friends by Jam's Andy Cirzan .

A Dreamer's Christmas is one of those albums that'll make you smile from the very first notes.