Jazz Articles about Jean-Paul Borelly

Jean-Paul Borelly: Boom Bop

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

While the tag, “with Archie Shepp and Henry Threadgill” on the cover of Boom Bop might make pulses of a certain age quicken with anticipation, the two saxophonists don’t play together on the disc. However, the handful of appearances by each, on this bewitching set of Afrocentric music, provides the icing on a cake whose many layers seem injected with hallucinogens.

As befits someone whose professional resume includes work with Pee Wee Ellis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve Coleman and Trilok ...