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From this week's Portland Mercury:

 

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Co...;category=22153

 

Nels Cline vs. Cereal

Nels Wins, Cereal Loses

 

BY BRIAN SMITH

 

We're not dead yet, and Nels Cline proves it.

 

Cline, lead-guitarist extraordinaire for the mighty Wilco, frontman of the Nels Cline Singers, and sideman to more jazz-based side projects than he himself can count, kept a pace over the past year that can only inspire.

 

In late September of 2006, Cline dropped New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill. Featuring contributions from longtime partner in crime, drummer Scott Amendola, as well as Alex Cline, Bobby Bradford, Ben Goldberg, Andrea Parkins, and Devin Hoff, Cline reinterpreted the long-underappreciated work of the jazz composer Hill. Fierce, odd, uncompromising, the album features some of Nels' most inspiring guitar work to date, as his trademark mid-range, beaten-up Jazzmaster tone battles it out with accordion, clarinet, drums, upright bass, and trumpet for over 73 stellar minutes.

 

"I'm proud of that one," Cline says, finishing off an early afternoon bowl of cereal. "It was a fun session."

 

Cline also prepped a new LP of Nels Cline Singers material, completed a well-received East Coast tour backing Amendola

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