Jazz Articles about Dave Liebman

Three by Lieb: Relevance, Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman, Lieb Plays Weill

by Ken Waxman
May 15, 2010

Dave Liebman/Evan Parker/Tony BiancoRelevance Red Toucan2009 Dave Liebman Group Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman Jazzwerkstatt2010 Dave Liebman Trio Lieb Plays Weill Daybreak-Challenge2009 After more than three decades, saxophonist Dave Liebman is the epitome of the modern improviser whose recorded work is constantly first-class, but rarely as ...

David Liebman: Lieb Plays Weill

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 26, 2010

Artista di sensibilità ed intelligenza fuori dal comune, Dave Liebman ha da tempo raggiunto un'impressionante maturità come interprete: la sua rilettura di talune opere di Alec Wilder, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sidney Bechet John Coltrane, nonché una vasta serie di collaborazioni e progetti, lo raffigurano come uno spirito libero, insofferente alla routine e, dunque, ancora capace di assumersi rischi. Quello che, infatti, colpisce di questo geniale sassofonista è l'estrema onestà e il desiderio di non ripetersi, nonostante sia giunto da ...

The Dave Liebman Group: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman

by John Kelman
April 9, 2010

When listening to Ornette Coleman's music from the fertile period of his 1959-1961 Atlantic albums--beautifully documented on the aptly titled Beauty is a Rare Thing (Rhino, 1993) box set--it's perhaps a little difficult to understand what all the hubbub was about. As is so often the case, time turns naysayers into champions, and many of the people who were so vehemently opposed to Coleman's forays into the realm of free jazz are now amongst those celebrating him for the innovator ...

Dave Liebman / Evan Parker / Tony Bianco: Relevance

by Mark Corroto
April 7, 2010

It is hard to imagine that these two saxophone titans, Dave Liebman and Evan Parker, had never met on stage before this 2008 concert at The Vortex in London. Both are innovators with a distinct, almost larger than life sound and they combine forces to make this meeting very special.

Back in the 1970s, Liebman was chosen by Miles Davis to help drive the trumpeter's sound on recordings like On The Corner (Columbia, 1972), Dark Magus (Columbia, 1974), ...

David Liebman Group: Live at MCG

by John Kelman
December 4, 2009

It may not possess the same visibility as other longstanding groups like the Dave Holland Quintet or Oregon, and saxophonist Dave Liebman's Group hasn't completely avoided flux. Marko Marcinko replaced drummer Jamey Haddad a few years back, and Phil Markowitz's departure trimmed the group from a quintet to a quartet, even though the keyboardist continues collaborating with Liebman to this day, most recently on Saxophone Summit's Seraphic Light (Telarc, 2008). Bassist Tony Marino and guitarist Vic Juris remain to this ...

Dave Liebman / Michael Stephans: Nomads

by John Kelman
November 28, 2009

If ever there was a title to best fit Dave Liebman, it would be Nomads. Stylistically, the reedman's life has represented an endless traverse of infinite musical landscapes, ranging from freely improvised music with Australia-based pianist Mike Nock on Duologue (Birdland, 2007), and modern, open-ended mainstream with longtime musical partner, pianist Richie Beirach--heard most recently on the Mosaic box set, Pendulum: Live at the Village Vanguard (2008)--to Miles Davis-informed fusion on Back on the Corner (Tone Center, 2007) and the ...

Dave Liebman / Michael Stephans: Nomads

by Chris Kompanek
September 2, 2009

Veteran saxophonist Dave Liebman is no stranger to experimentation, cutting his teeth playing with Elvin Jones and then Miles Davis' groundbreaking fusion group in the '70s. Drummer/poet Michael Stephans has played with everyone from Pharoah Sanders and John Patitucci to classic rock legends David Bowie and The Rolling Stones. On Nomads, the duo takes on many genres and multiple instruments; the result an ambitiously eclectic album, wandering the musical gambit from originals to reharmonized standards and forgotten pieces by jazz ...