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Bill Dixon with the Exploding Star Orchestra: Bill Dixon with the Exploding Star Orchestra

By Michael Patrick Brady

The estimable trumpet legend teams up with Rob Mazurek’s cosmic ensemble for a vivid and evocative journey into the outer limits of jazz. [4 February 2008]

Exploding Star Orchestra: We Are All from Somewhere Else

By Daniel Spicer

Let's face it, they might as well have gone ahead and called this 'What's Hip in Chicago?' [1 February 2007]