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Mahakala Music: Murmuration
by Fran Kursztejn
"Birds from the east coast meet birds from the midwest," reads Mahakala Music's description for saxophonist Dave Sewelson's newest release. Sewelson himself is a bicoastal phenomenon: born in Oakland, then traipsing into the New York scene circa 1977. Like his frequent bandleader collaborator William Parker, he acts as a magnetic center to attract a variety of local and international performers alike. Murmuration's line-up consists of another fellow New Yorker-violinist Gabby Fluke-Mogul, and three Minneapolitans, bassist Anthony Cox, drummer Steve Hirsh ...
Continue ReadingJC Sanford with Anthony Cox and Michael Cain: New Past
by Troy Dostert
Although he has shown himself to be adept in crafting big-band releases such as Views from the Inside (Whirlwind, 2014), trombonist JC Sanford usually works in a pared-down setting, such as his quartet release Keratoconus (Shifting Paradigm, 2019) or, more recently, the two volumes of his trio-based Imminent Standards (Shifting Paradigm, 2021 and 2022). Here he continues this trend, joining with two veterans, pianist Michael Cain and bassist Anthony Cox, for a mix of Sanford's own compositions and a couple ...
Continue ReadingJim Pepper / Amina Claudine Myers / Anthony Cox / Leopoldo Fleming: Afro Indian Blues
by Donald Elfman
It's American roots music in flying colors as four simpatico musicians dig deeply at a 1991 Austrian jazz festival. Native American (Craw) Jim Pepper, African-Americans Amina Claudine Myers and Anthony Cox and Puerto Rican Leopoldo Fleming wowed the audience with “native music--the blues, jazz, Indian and African music that seems all about the passion and power to unite. The concert opens with--what else?--the blues. It's basically Billie Holiday's “Fine and Mellow, and is a down-home groove. Myers ...
Continue ReadingAfro Indian Blues
by Bill Siegel
Why now? Why review a recording of a concert that happened fifteen years ago? For one, because it's taken this long for anyone to get around to releasing the performance on CD. But even more importantly, because this is a major event and should get all the exposure possible. In 1991, at the time of the gig, Pepper was already sick with the cancer that would kill him within the year. But he's in strong form throughout, delivering ...
Continue ReadingAnthony Cox
by Peter Madsen
I'll never forget my first encounter with the astounding Minneapolis bassist Anthony Cox. It was 1977 at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire where I was nearing the end of my music studies looking forward to escaping with my degree in hand, when this African-American man (not a common sight at this lily-white University in the middle of nowhere) came straight up to me and asked if I was Peter Madsen. After confirming his question he said, “I heard ...
Continue ReadingJim Pepper - Amina Myers - Anthony Cox - Leopoldo Fleming: Afro Indian Blues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quest'inedito, suggestivo, concerto di Amina Myers e Jim Pepper, tenuto il 19 maggio 1991 al festival di Raab (Austria), documenta una delle ultime esibizioni del sassofonista, prematuramente scomparso nel 1992. L'incontro con la cantante afro-americana non poteva che avvenire sul terreno delle rispettive radici musicali: da alcuni anni sia Pepper che la Myers avevano lasciato gli ambiti d'avanguardia (il primo con Paul Motian, la seconda accanto ai protagonisti dell'AACM) per una sintesi, profondamente sentita e di grande impatto emozionale, con ...
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