Jazz Articles about Adam Lane

Adam Lane - Lou Grassi - Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 6, 2008

Non fatevi ingannare dalle traiettorie bizzarre tracciate dalla farfalla ubriaca disegnata sulla copertina! Drunk Butterfly (bel titolo) è disco lucidissimo nella sua progettazione e nella sua messa in opera, ricca di sfaccettature e di apparenti incongruenze, è vero, ma assai rigorosa nella sua unitarietà d’intenti. Che è quella di esaltare lo spirito libertario e improvvisativo della musica afroamericana all’interno di strutture compositive mobili ma riconoscibili, senza barricate stilistiche con il solo desiderio di dare adeguato risalto alla propria creatività. Si ...

Adam Lane / Lou Grassi / Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly

by Glenn Astarita
August 20, 2008

Connotations of a Drunk Butterfly might sound like a humorous proposition, especially when depicted in a cartoon. But art doesn't necessarily imitate art within this 2008 trio release. Sure, the trio embarks upon a few off-kilter flight patterns. However, the musical aspects present numerous examples steeped within the bop, or free-bop scheme of things. And with three highly revered New York area artists spinning a web of excitement, the music and overall effect convey a democratic engagement that occasionally projects ...

Adam Lane: Buffalo & Four Corners

by Marc Medwin
March 16, 2008

Adam Lane Buffalo CIMP 2007 Magnus Broo / Adam Lane / Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark 4 Corners Clean Feed 2007

These two recent releases prove, if further proof was needed, that Adam Lane is an original voice of which all bass enthusiasts should take note. His sense of groove is matched by ...

Adam Lane: Buffalo

by Budd Kopman
January 3, 2008

Buffalo, by bassist Adam Lane and his trio (Vinny Golia on tenor and soprano sax and drummer Vijay Anderson), represents the completion of a triptych taking place over two days in February, 2005. This live recording, on which trumpeter Paul Smoker sits in, is an example of the power that music can have when everything just clicks. Zero Degree Music (CIMP, 2005) and Music Degree Zero (CIMP, 2006) are the two studio recordings done on the 24th ...

Adam Lane: Buffalo

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 23, 2007

È sempre un piacere imbattersi in un lavoro come questo, un’autentica boccata d’aria fresca. Free jazz a stelle e strisce con tutte le sue cosine al posto giusto: composizioni briose e incendiarie; groove irresistibili e carnali; interventi solistici meravigliosamente coinvolgenti e carichi della giusta urgenza espressiva; un’intesa praticamente impeccabile, affinata on the road e riproposta con assoluta sincerità in un piccolo club, davanti a un pubblico in delirio. Saranno pure cose già sentite, ma che soddisfazione nell’accostarsi a musica tanto ...

Adam Lane & Ken Vandermark: 4 Corners and New Magical Kingdom

by Clifford Allen
June 27, 2007

Scandinavian cooperative trio The Thing is one of the more recent exponents of a hybridization of the visceral energies of free music and R&B-tinged punk rock. Such a meeting of genres may not be as strange as one might think. The group's reedman, Swede Mats Gustafsson, played in hardcore and punk outfits in his teens, and has remained invested in that music as much as he became entwined in Swedish free improvisation. His co-conspirators, bassist Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten and drummer Paal ...

Adam Lane: New Magical Kingdom

by Marc Medwin
March 17, 2007

It is standard rhetorical practice to speak of new ground being broken, of barriers being dissolved and of all melding with clarity into a singular vision, but there's increasingly little room for such claims to be made, even less for them to be taken seriously. This newest offering from the always interesting bassist and composer Adam Lane does no such thing. All of his influences are in plain view throughout as just that, apparent as the proverbial heart on sleeve. ...