Jazz Articles about Adam Lane

Adam Lane 3: Music degree zero

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 1, 2006

Un lungo intro di batteria tutto giocato a colpi di cassa e rullante, dal suono aspro e secco. Su una base così scheletrica Adam Lane fornisce bordoni fatti di note appena variate, mentre Vinny Golia presta i suoi sassofoni dal timbro ruvido e scultoreo. I suoni si aggrovigliano sempre di più, poi d’improvviso un concitato crescendo finale. Implosione ed esplosione. “Spin with This Earth” è il paradigma di questa musica, che guarda - attualizzandoli - al post-Bop e al Free ...

Adam Lane Trio: Music Degree Zero

by Derek Taylor
February 27, 2006

Presenting the balance of a two-day session that yielded the slightly differently titled Zero Degree Music, bassist Adam Lane's latest disc picks up where its predecessor left off. The earlier effort garnered nearly unanimous acclaim last year amongst listeners and critics who heard it. This second plateful upholds the same standards of collective creativity and uncompromising musical immediacy. Lane's stock continues to rise, and he's yet to be associated with album that isn't worth hearing.

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Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music

by Clifford Allen
December 11, 2005

Reedman-composer Vinny Golia has found a home in playing scenarios of all stripes (orchestra, solo, and duets with collaborators from seemingly all walks of the improvisational spectrum), but the small-group format of the power trio is a favorite. Apparently the first in a two-volume set, Zero Degree Music, under the leadership of bassist-composer Adam Lane (who splits his time between the coasts), finds Golia thinning his arsenal to only tenor and soprano. Of course, anything lost on a smaller range ...

Adam Lane Quartet: Fo(u)r Being(s)

by Glenn Astarita
November 20, 2002

With this release, bassist Adam Lane and his all-star band perpetuate a series of frothy grooves spanning free-bop, a jazz waltz and vigorous improvisational forays. Here, drummer Barry Altschul and Lane provide the often tumultuous rhythms. A rather gleeful in-your-face approach it is, no doubt about it.

Saxophonist John Tchicai and trumpeter Paul Smoker ride atop pulsating swing beats and rollicking pulses with pungent unison choruses. In addition, the soloists perform as though some sort of spiritualized trance overcame them. ...