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Construction Party: Instruments of Change
by AAJ Italy Staff
Instruments of Change, inciso a Boston da un quartetto paritario formato nel 2008 da jazzisti non molto noti a livello internazionale, costituisce l'ennesima dimostrazione che un jazz aggiornato e di spessore può essere prodotto anche lontano dai centri riconosciuti di New York, Chicago, New Orleans... Anzi, sappiamo quanto caratterizzata e attiva sia la vita jazzistica in altre città, come Seattle o la stessa Boston. D'altra parte il sassofonista trentottenne Dave Rempis, già membro del quintetto di Ken Vandermark, ha maturato ...
Continue ReadingTrumpet
by Gordon Marshall
for Forbes GrahamArc shoots to treble tongue tripfingertip tapping valve topstraps the sinuous sound round the quartet's quartal vibe, tribeof truth, sooth of soothingtunes turned back on themselves lost in vertical vertigo. Thenthe trumpet picks them up,passes brass baton unto the soldered sound until nowa bric-a-brac. Attack! The spearappears, piercing the pieces
Continue ReadingForbes Graham at Cafe Fixe: Streaming Consciousness
by Gordon Marshall
Forbes GrahamCafe FixeBrookline, MassNovember 9, 2010 The sound of a bubbling stream seeped out of Forbes Graham's computer as he performed his sound check. In attendance was a small but dedicated crowd of admirers. With intense eyes and a mysterious smile, Graham brings electricity to a room, giving it a glow even when the lights are dimmed, as they were when the performance began in proper, the stream rising again and mounting ...
Continue ReadingForbes Graham: Magenta Haze
by Gordon Marshall
Forbes Graham isn't hell-bent on taking the jazz world over by fiat. Then again, a sterling tone like Louis Armstrong's, a sense of stride and a sidewinder sleekness position him to do so. He brings spot-on timing, inherited from his key precursor, Don Cherry, into the icy age of post jazz--and swings, too, situated comfortably within the classic idiom.It is a prismatic phenomenon, his playing. Shades and tints channel through his trumpet, an ever-shifting panoply--not so ...
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