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Nightcrawlers: Get Ready
by Pierre Giroux
The common thread between the Nightcrawlers and nightcrawler earthworms is that they both come out at night, and while the former is at home in a jazz club before a live audience, the latter is feeding on decaying organic material. Some may say that is a distinction without a difference. Nevertheless the latest nightly ritual for the Nightcrawlers is called Get Ready and it was recorded live at Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver B.C. This confident sextet is centred around ...
read moreNightcrawlers: Do You Know A Good Thing?
by Pierre Giroux
A nightcrawler is defined as a member of a fictional subspecies who are born with superhuman abilities. It is hard to imagine this is the definition tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds had in mind when he brought this band back together for a recording session. Possibly, he might have been thinking about the funky organ-based recordings exemplified by the Blue Note (1963) recording entitled Never Let Me Go with organist Shirley Scott, along with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, conguero Ray Barretto, ...
read moreJerry Cook Quartet +: A Walk in the Park
by Jack Bowers
While some young lions can hardly wait to enter a recording studio and show the world what they have, a few older cats prefer to wait a while to make sure they get it right the first time. Veteran saxophonist Jerry Cook is one of those cats. Walk in the Park is Cook's first album under his own name. He is in his mid-fifties, and has gigged with some of the best musicians on the scene, especially in western Canada, ...
read moreInhabitants: The Furniture Moves Underneath
by AAJ Italy Staff
Leggendo la presentazione dell'album e della band, ho incontrato le parole “spingersi verso nuovi territori sonori, esplorare particolari approcci al sound sperimentale, all'interplay intuitivo, alla scrittura strumentale". Insomma, mi aspettavo un album estremo, per nulla strutturato nelle composizioni e molto sperimentale (il che spesso significa anche inascoltabile). E il primo minuto dell'album va senza dubbio in questa direzione. Tanto è vero che mi ha quasi fatto venire voglia di togliere il CD dal lettore. Tuttavia, avendo la pazienza di attendere, ...
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