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Bill Elgart, often credited as Billy Elgart is one of many American jazz musicians who have settled in Europe. Quite often based out of Munich, Elgart's credits include appearances on some choice {{m: Paul Bley = 5083}} records, an appropriate bandleader to bring up in this context as he has in his own biographical writings explained what has come to be known as the "Bley test" for American jazz musicians trying to settle in Europe. Whether or not Elgart was able to pass this test, he seems to have successfully replaced {{m: Paul Motian = 9653}} in Bley's band in the early 70's, and jazz listeners have the opportunity to directly compare the two drummers on several albums on which they both appear, including the early ECM release Paul Bley With {{m: Gary Peacock = 10182}} as well as the album Turning Point, good enough to be released by both the Improvising Artists and Steeplechase labels and also highlighting a rare appearance by tenor saxophonist {{m: John Gilmore = 7046}} outside the interplanetary confines of the {{m: Sun Ra = 10507}} Arkestra. Elgart has also collaborated with vibraphonist, pianist, composer and bandleader {{m: Karl Berger = 4931}}, appearing on that artist's return to recording following a hiatus, No Man Is An Island on the Knit Classics label.
D.B. Shrier: D. B. Shrier emerges
by Mike Jurkovic
The provenance behind this full-bore blow out recorded in 1967 by jny: Philadelphia tenor sax legend D.B.Shrier differs from most myths in the fact that we now have pure, full-blown proof of what a night in his company sounded like: A scorching combustion of energy, virtuosity and audience adulation. Originally released by Alfa Records ...
thrīe thrēo drī
Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Verticality; High Rider; Boulder Clay Movement No. 1; The Duck Stays Between The Teeth;
Alternative Experimental Assembly X; A Day Like Any Other; All Other Forms Of Matter And Energy;
Aerolith.
Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, Bill Elgart: thrīe thrēo drī
by Mark Corroto
The trio of Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, and Bill Elgart obliges listeners to reflect on how they listen to freely improvised music, not in a concert setting where the listeners' attention is in effect captured, but the act of listening to a performance from recorded format. A fellow critic eschews records, saying that the experience is ...
Carlo Mombelli: Angels and Demons
by Seton Hawkins
One of music's criminally underrated geniuses, South African electric bassist and composer Carlo Mombelli has carved out a most extraordinary performing and writing career in music. Throughout his four decades as a performer, Mombelli has forged one of the most distinctive electric bass approaches in Jazz, established himself as South Africa's most exceptional composer, and has ...
Gianni Lenoci / Kent Carter / Bill Elgart: Plaything
by John Sharpe
Italian pianist Gianni Lenoci forms one apex of a trio with almost unlimited collective nous on Plaything. There are main two reasons for that: Kent Carter on bass and Bill Elgart on drums, both veterans of the 1964 October Revolution in Jazz, who have since carved niches for themselves in Europe. Carter 's early exposure arrived ...
Ab Baars / Meinard Kneer / Bill Elgart: Give No Quarter
by Eyal Hareuveni
Dutch reeds master Ab Baars and German double bassist Meinard Kneer began to work as a duo and recorded an acclaimed album, Windfall (Evil Rabbit, 2010). While playing a gig in 2010 at the Bimhuis Club in Amsterdam, the duo hosted veteran American drummer Bill Elgart, known for his collaborations with Paul Bley and Lee Konitz, ...
Klare / Platz / Kneer / Elgart: Modern Primitive
by Dave Wayne
Steeped in various aspects of jazz tradition as much as it is on the cutting edge, the sonic territory covered by Modern Primitive is vast, to say the least. The music here, all freely improvised, has a warmth and immediacy that comes from intense, shared listening. Though there are no tunes or changes per se, that ...
Jim Hobbs joins Aych and the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet at Outpost 186 on Friday Dec 23
Aych is a trio comprising Mary Halvorson guitaristry, Jim Hobbs saxophone honing and Taylor Ho Bynum cornettery in some serene survey of juxtapositions Mr. Hobbs variously describes as “porch music" This will be a Boston premiere as is a cd release show for the newly reshaped Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet brought to ears as Apparent Distance ...
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