Jazz Articles about Bill Elgart

About Bill Elgart

Album Review

Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, Bill Elgart: thrīe thrēo drī

Read "thrīe thrēo drī" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 3, 2021

The trio of Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, and Bill Elgart obliges listeners to reflect on how they listen to freely improvised music, not in a concert setting where the listeners' attention is in effect captured, but the act of listening to a performance from recorded format. A fellow critic eschews records, saying that the experience is spurious and lacks the vitality of an in-person attestation. Does his philosophy cut off his nose (or ears) to spite his face? Proof of ...

Album Review

Albert Landolt: The Outernational Three

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 9, 2010

Fervida e potente, la musica di Albert Landolt si impone prepotentemente in questa session svizzera del '97. La sostanziano sonorità liquide ed arcane, note vociferanti e corrosive, libere da gabbie armoniche e stilistiche. Sia nella pronuncia che nella tecnica, Roland Kirk pare essere il riferimento ideale di questo notevole multistrumentista, tanto pungente ed esplosivo al sax quanto lirico al flauto. Ne vien fuori un percorso ricco di brio ed invenzioni solistiche sinuose, dove il leader bada a tirar fuori dal ...

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Extended Analysis

Polar Bear Stomp

by Bill Siegel
July 23, 2006

"Jim didn't want me to write about the music, since he thinks the music has the right to speak for itself. He also didn't want me to write a biography; instead, only my impressions." Enja Records co-founder and Jim Pepper producer, Horst Weber. How fitting that Jim Pepper's friend and professional associate Horst Weber remembers that it was by impressions that Pepper wanted to be remembered. For Impressions is one of John Coltrane's best known albums, and Coltrane ...