Jazz Articles about Ivo Perelman

Ivo Perelman Trio: Mind Games

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 23, 2010

Mind Games è l'ennesica incisione in trio del tenorista brasiliano Ivo Perelman. I suoi dischi in trio sono ogni volta diversi perchè Perelman sa integrare o sa ispirare, a seconda dei casi, le ritmiche con cui suona. Ci sono stati fior di musicisti ad accompagnarlo: William Parker e Rashied Ali (un indimenticabile Sad Life), Jackson Krall, Jay Rosen o, ormai da lungo tempo, Dominic Duval. In quest'occasione troviamo appunto Duval questa volta insieme al batterista Brian Wilson. In questo disco ...

Ivo Perelman with Dominic Duval: Soul Calling

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2007

La nuova incisione del sassofonista brasiliano Ivo Perelman è un ritorno alla Cadence Jazz Records, label che aveva lasciato da un bel pò di tempo per passare nelle sue ultime registrazioni alla Clean Feed ed alla Leo Records. Su questo disco lo troviamo in duo, nell'anno 2000, insieme al contrabbassista Dominic Duval. Soul Calling si riferisce al processo che è cominciato alcuni anni fa, quando Perelman, in seguito ad una tendinite che gli aveva creato dei problemi nel suonare il ...

Ivo Perelman Trio: Black on White

by AAJ Staff
March 28, 2006

By Ken Waxman

Ivo Perelman's nine harsh, uncompromising improvisations starkly reduce the playing field to black and white. The tenor saxophonist is seconded on Black and White by a team that was Cecil Taylor's rhythm section at the time, although New York-based bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jackson Krall have also worked with nearly every committed improviser from multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to bassist William Parker. Perelman's trio concentrates on nine sound paintings, with the first three around or exceeding the ...

Ivo Perelman: Introspection

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2006

Diciamolo pure senza mezzi termini: il brasiliano Ivo Perelman con questa notevole incisione si conferma come uno dei più importanti sassofonisti tenori della scena free odierna. Perelman ha prediletto la formula del trio, una formazione che gli permette di agire con la necessaria libertà di espressione e con cui ha registrato il suo ultimo lavoro Black on White per la portoghese Clean Feed. Su Introspection invece lo troviamo alla guida di un quartetto che include la violinista Rosie Hertlein. Si ...

Ivo Perelman: Black on White

by Jeff Stockton
March 25, 2005

Ivo Perelman's playing is a squall, a storm that suddenly kicks up and moves through your life. Maybe you saw this one coming, but when it hits you're still caught off guard. Like his painting that equally inspires and defines his music, Perelman plays action saxophone, following his instinct up and down the keys, dripping thinly precise lines of notes as if dropped off the end of a brush or splashing long, broad swaths as if hurled straight from the ...

Ivo Perelman: Suite for Helen F.

by Jeff Stockton
March 21, 2004

You may have heard that the compact disc is dying, but you wouldn’t know it from this prodigious 2-CD set of over 100 minutes of relentless saxophonic stress-testing and rhythmic sensory overload. From his debut in 1989 through the late ‘90s, Ivo Perelman was wildly prolific and exhaustively documented, with more than 20 recordings appearing on a variety of small labels in barely a decade, an output all the more remarkable when you consider that Perelman’s jazz vocabulary is just ...

Ivo Perelman Double Trio: Suite for Helen F.

by John Kelman
March 4, 2004

Free jazz can be a dicey thing. When one is literally pulling everything out of the ether, one runs the risk of creating work that may have visceral impact but has little in the way of a sense of inner logic and inner construction. For fifteen years or so, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman has almost exclusively been working in the free jazz arena, and while the success of his output has been mixed, it would be unfair to call him ...