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Jeff Cosgrove, John Medeski, Jeff Lederer: History Gets Ahead of the Story
by Ian Patterson
The striking absence of a bassist on this organ-trio tribute to William Parker speaks volumes about the singular approach that Jeff Cosgrove, John Medeski and Jeff Lederer have taken to the compositions of a modern jazz great. Parker's music is so diverse, his output so vast, that a cohesive overview would be difficult to distil onto a single CD, so perhaps for this reason the trio narrows its focus to Parker's post-2000 small ensembles, and in particular the bassist's quartet ...
Continue ReadingMatt Wilson Quartet: Hug!
by Dan McClenaghan
Drummer Matt Wilson's quartet opens Hug! with Gene Ammons' “The One Before This." Saxophonist Ammons often used the tune as a showcase for tenor battles with fellow sax man Sonny Stitt. Wilson and company--featuring cornetist Kirk Knuffke, sax man Jeff Lederer and bassist Chris Lightcap--lay the sound down like a party. And this quartet parties hard. It feels like a rough-and-tumble affair, going down around midnight, when the alcohol has settled in, and the half hammered dancers are stumbling around ...
Continue ReadingJeff Cosgrove/John Medeski/Jeff Lederer: History Gets Ahead of the Story
by Troy Dostert
As he has been one of the most influential and prolific musicians in the jazz avant-garde since the 1980s, it is surprising that bassist William Parker hasn't gotten more credit as a composer. Perhaps due in part to the sheer volume of his recordings--including every imaginable context, from solo bass to small/medium-sized groups to big-band outings--it can be hard to keep up with his work, making it almost inevitable that some of his music gets lost in the shuffle, its ...
Continue ReadingShakers n' Bakers: Heart Love
by Mark Corroto
For most of us it is, and always has been, red states and blue states. I'm talking us vs. them, liberals and conservatives, or my ball team and yours. Same goes for music. The moldy figs vs. beboppers and later, neocons vs. avant-gardists. Yet, some musicians like Albert Ayler, as a radical departure from the norm, lived outside of such designations. He did so at the commencement of his career and also at its conclusion. Both phases drew the ire ...
Continue ReadingJeff Lederer's Swing n'Dix: Jeff Lederer's Swing n'Dix
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'operazione non è nuova. Prendere una manciata di classici riferiti ad un'epoca o ad un ambito stilistico - in questo caso il Dixieland - attualizzarli con un opportuno mix di rispetto filologico e personalizzazione interpretativa, irrobustire il tutto con composizioni originali che a quell'epoca e a quello stile rimandino più o meno esplicitamente. La riuscita dell'operazione dipenderà dal talento dei musicisti, dalla freschezza delle idee messe in campo, dalla coerenza e dalla visione d'insieme. Tutte doti che il quartetto di ...
Continue ReadingJeff Lederer: Sunwatcher
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una nota fotografia di Elliot Landy che immortala Albert Ayler in Prospect Park (poi usata per la copertina di The Hilversum Sessions) è citata da Jeff Lederer, che la ripropone con se stesso al posto dell'eroe per questo Sunwatcher, raccolta di notevole bellezza, che propone il sassofonista newyorkese tra le voci meritevoli di conoscenza approfondita. L'attacco del disco è appunto un atto d'amore per Ayler, costruito sulle prime note di “Sunwatcher" ed elaborato più in stile coltraniano versione quartetto classico. ...
Continue ReadingJeff Lederer: Sunwatcher
by Mark Corroto
Sunwatchers is a most auspicious debut by saxophonist Jeff Lederer. The reed man chose to reanimate the spirit of Albert Ayler for this session, and along with Ayler's ghost came that of late-John Coltrane spirituality and experimentation.Lederer can been heard as the saxophone behind the creative bands of Ted Kooshian's cartoon and TV show music and drummer Matt Wilson's newest quartet. Playing on Wilson's That's Gonna Leave A Mark (Palmetto, 2009), he is the yang to saxophonist Andrew ...
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