Jazz Articles about AVC

About AVC

Album Review

This production signifies yet another example of UK-based Babel Records' vast array of young or nascent talent spanning everything from ferocious, free-jazz experimentation to artists who bridge numerous jazz and unrelated genres into a cohesive entity. ACV is a group of stalwarts who respectively boast resumes of stints with exalted modern improvisers such as guitarist Fred Frith, saxophonist Evan Parker, vocalist Ruth Lambert, legendary jazz trumpeter Art Farmer and other notables. Each piece tells a different story. They ...

Album Review

AVC: Busk

by Karl Ackermann
June 24, 2013

The UK label Babel has been nurturing unique talent for the better part of twenty years, judiciously releasing only about a half-dozen albums in a given year. Many of their artists play on the fringes of jazz and some go way beyond the pale. AVC are hardly outliers but neither is the quintet a predictable, formulaic group as their second release Busk clearly demonstrates. AVC's debut outing--Fail In Wood (Jazzaction, 2010)--showed a raw potential that has been fully realized on ...