Charles Gayle | Dominic Duval | Arkadijus Gotesmanas | Our Souls | Live in Vilnius | No Business Records

Recorded live in June of this year at PIANO.LT in Vilnius, Lithuania, this new limited edition LP on the NoBusiness label will surely please the fans of Charles Gayle, who has now completely switched to alto. Dominic Duval plays bass and Arkadijus Gotesmanas drums, the latter one having taken the initiative for this session that is dedicated to the late Rashied Ali with whom Gayle performed a lot. — Stef Continue reading

Jimmy Halperin | Dominic Duval | Monk Dreams | No Business Records

Monk Dreams is a new reincarnation of Monk’s tunes arranged and performed by bassist Dominic Duval and saxophonist Jimmy Halperin. Music club Thelonious is happy to present this absolutely “must have” recording. Following “Monkinus” released by CIMP in 2007 the duo once again dives into Monk’s music to reach extreme depths. Additionally for our music club this is a signature release. Continue reading

Bruce Holsapple Reads | Vox Audio

Bruce Holsapple is currently working in central New Mexico as a speech-language pathologist. He taught briefly and has a scholarly essay on Phil Whalen’s poetry forthcoming in Paideuma. His poems have appeared in The Poker, House Organ, First Intensity and Blue Mesa. Bruce Holsapple is one of the creators of Contraband, the first persistently serious and successful little magazine in Maine, running from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s. Holsapple grew up in Dexter, tended trap lines as a teenager, attended the University of Maine in the late 1960s and hooked up there with mentors and partners like Burt Hatlen and Jim Bishop. After preliminary excursions out of state, he returned to Portland in about 1969, and then with Bishop, Michael Barriault, Peter Kilgore and others, started publishing saddle-stitched collections of poetry, Contraband. Some early issues are worth money on the Stephen and Tabitha King collectors market. Continue reading