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Adam Lane & Ken Vandermark: 4 Corners and New Magical Kingdom
by Clifford Allen
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 ...
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by Marc Medwin
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. ...
Continue ReadingAdam Lane 3: Music degree zero
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingAdam Lane Trio: Music Degree Zero
by Derek Taylor
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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Continue ReadingAdam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Clifford Allen
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 ...
Continue ReadingAdam Lane Quartet: Fo(u)r Being(s)
by Glenn Astarita
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. ...
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