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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCADENCE label and magazineUSA record label and magazine, monthly starting January 1976, called Cadence Review Of Jazz And Blues: Creative Improvised Music, redesigned and became a quarterly in October 2007 called Cadence: The Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music. In January 2012 it went online as Cadence Media LLC, with one print issue a year. Bob Rusch and Tom Lord started the Cadence label (69 releases to '97, about 25 on CD); a new CIMP label was launched '96. The magazine is a priceless archive of interviews, oral histories, book reviews and reviews of improvised music worldwide; it will review records from anywhere however obscure if fans might be interested, and carries almost no advertising because its integrity doesn't get along with commercialism. An index is compiled by Tom Lord (who also does a jazz discography, 15 volumes so far in early '97); the '95 magazine index listed over 38,600 references to videos, magazines, calenders, books, anthologies, interviews, obituaries and record reviews. The Cadence label is a separate corporation and the records do not always get good reviews in the magazine; issues included recordings by Chet Baker, Maurice McIntyre, Frank Lowe, newcomers like guitarist Rory Stuart (and Marilyn Crispell's first album '81), well recorded with natural balance; also Collection in a two-disc limited edition of Bill Dixon's trumpet solos '70-6. The new CIMP label (Creative Improvised Music Projects) issues new CDs of small groups led by Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton, Billy Bang, Chris McCann/Billy Pierce (Pierce's best record yet), Frank Lowe, Sonny Simmons, Joe McPhee, Odean Pope etc; two volumes of a Roswell Rudd Trio playing The Unheard Herbie Nichols; sidepeople including Crispell, Charles Moffett, Dennis Charles, many more; all recorded with zero gimmicks: the sound is like being in the room with the group. Cadence is also an important mail order source for jazz records (and wholesalers to the trade as North Country Records); NorthCountry Audio sells only the best gear in each price range, prices including postage in the continental USA. (This writer has no connection except that of happy customer.) Address: Cadence Building, Redwood NY 13679 USA, or www.cadencebuilding.com. (For the Cadence pop label of 1953-64, see Archie Bleyer.) |