Jazz Articles about Jim Black

Jim Black: Alasnoaxis

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2001

Jim Black is best known as one of the three points of the Ellery Eskelin 3, a go-for-broke free jazz triangle that routinely incorporates any and all ideas improvisational ideas into an unpredictable and highly versatile amalgam. Three consistently excellent releases on Hatology have more than measured the group’s mettle, but as anyone who has appreciated these releases will attest the time is past ripe for the drummer to step out on his own. He makes good on the promise ...