Jazz Articles
Our daily articles are carefully curated by the All About Jazz staff. You can find more articles by searching our website, see what's trending on our popular articles page or read articles ahead of their published dates on our future articles page. Read our daily album reviews.
Sign in to customize your My Articles page —or— Filter Article Results
Jason Kahn & Tim Olive: Two Sunrise
by John Eyles
For those familiar with the two previous releases on Tim Olive's own 845 Audio imprint, the release of Two Sunrise will hold few surprises. As before, its brown chipboard sleeve is adorned with basic graphics and information, giving it a “cottage industry" feel--no bad thing as it follows a noble tradition created by such musician-run labels as Incus and Matchless. Again, the music was created by a duo of Tim Olive plus a like-minded player who complements Olive's use of ...
read moreKatsura Mouri & Tim Olive: Various Histories
by John Eyles
For the second release on his own 845 Audio label--following his impressive 33 Bays pairing with Alfredo Costa Monteiro--Tim Olive debuts his established duo with turntablist Katsura Mouri, whose history includes being a member of the experimental improvising turntable unit BusRatch with Takahiro Yamamoto. Various Histories was recorded near Kyoto (where Mouri is the manager of Parallax, the record shop around which BusRatch was formed) on a sweltering hot day in August 2010, in a space without air-conditioning. The recording ...
read moreTim Olive & Alfredo Costa Monteira: 33 bays
by John Eyles
33 bays is the second release from the duo of Canadian guitarist Tim Olive and Portuguese electro-acoustic artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro, following their previous A Theory of Possible Utterance (Zeromoon, 2011). On 33 bays, Olive plays one-string electric guitar plus electronics, while Monteiro uses electro-acoustic devices. The album was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs, in Kyoto, in October 2009, during a Japanese tour. Over several days the pair recorded a number of pieces of which only two ...
read more
Giveaway
Days remaining: 2
