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Barry Altschul: Long Tall Sunshine

Read "Long Tall Sunshine" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
August 17, 2021

Be ye player or observer, we all crave to experience, shape and seize the untamed virtuosity of the moment. The absolute here and now. You want your attention commanded away by the manic sounds of humans creating a noise, a language that didn't exist mere minutes ago. So check out Long Tall Sunshine, drum master Barry Altschul}'s fourth entry in his trio of extra/ultra live action Tum Records recordings with bassist {{m: Joe Fonda and saxophonist Jon Irabagon ...

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Barry Altschul and the 3Dom Factor: Long Tall Sunshine

Read "Long Tall Sunshine" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 7, 2021

For a two-decade stretch beginning in 1971, free jazz drummer Barry Altschul was positioned among the most in-demand percussionists. He made his mark in the fleeting but important group Circle, with Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Anthony Braxton. Among the many cutting-edge artists he worked with were Andrew Hill, and Paul Bley. And then, for almost twenty years, the virtuoso musician/composer all but disappeared. Altschul re-emerged with The 3dom Factor in 2013, and the drummer is once again a prolific ...

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Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor: Long Tall Sunshine

Read "Long Tall Sunshine" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 30, 2021

Drummer Barry Altschul and his chordless 3Dom Factor--featuring reedman Jon Irabagon and bassist Joe Fonda--know how to lay down a rip-snorter. Long Tall Sunshine opens with the title tune, an in-your-face, three-way melee that introduces the group's fourth album in a characteristically steroidal, free-swinging style, throwing blows from all angles. Recorded live, “somewhere in Europe," (record keeping does not seem to be one of the group's strengths), the opening one-two punch of the title tune and “The 3Dom ...

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Step In: Voilà La Tendresse

Read "Voilà La Tendresse" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 28, 2021

Step In is the international trio of Italian pianist Carlo Morena, Chilean drummer Felix Lecaros, and the renowned New York bassist Joe Fonda. Morena and Fonda started playing together in 1990, later adding drummer Jeff Hirshfield and adapting the current trio name. George Schuller later replaced Hirshfield before Lecaros took over the throne. Voilà La Tendresse is their third album, but under two previous European labels, the group did not receive the exposure due to them. Now on the well-established ...

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The J. & F. Band: Me And The Devil

Read "Me And The Devil" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 7, 2021

We are back to the whippin' post with Me And The Devil, the fourth Allman Brothers-inspired release from Long Song Records, and the third by The J&F Band; and while it is far from being a guilty pleasure, the music does beg to be heard at high volume. In 2016, drummer Tiziano Tononi, bassist Joe Fonda, violinist, Emanuael Parrini and their smoking band recorded an Allman Brothers tribute Trouble No More...All Men Are Brothers (Long Song, 2017). It ...

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Barry Altschul’s 3Dom Factor feat. Jon Irabagon & Joe Fonda: Long Tall Sunshine

Read "Long Tall Sunshine" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 21, 2021

The fourth release by Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine, evokes (in a weird way) the lyrics to “Helter Skelter" by The Beatles: “When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again." We're not talking the Charles Manson thrill kill angle of Helter Skelter, ...

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Conference Call: Prism

by Mark Corroto
February 3, 2021

Conference Call is a quartet, but could also be described as a trio+ because the core members—saxophonist and bass clarinetist Gebhard Ullmann, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, and bassist Joe Fonda—have been touring and recording together for more than two decades. The plus moniker derives from the quartet's interchange of drummers. Early on, the seat was occupied by Matt Wilson, then Han Bennink, Gerry Hemingway, and George Schuller. The quartet's latest edition is Swiss drummer Dieter Ulrich, who you might have ...