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Plymouth: Plymouth

Read "Plymouth" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Chris Lightcap, Gerald Cleaver, and Mary Halvorson. The simple mention of these five names is probably enough to frighten some people away from this album and make others rush toward it with open ears. Each one of the aforementioned musicians has a reputation for being a musical provocateur, pushing buttons, pushing the limits and challenging minds and ears with intelligent abandon. The music they make together under the banner of Plymouth could be dubbed free jazz, ...

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Joe Morris: Graffiti In Two Parts

Read "Graffiti In Two Parts" reviewed by John Sharpe


One of the main talking points regarding Graffiti In Two Parts, and perhaps the reason this session from 1985 has finally seen the light of day, must be the participation of the erstwhile pianist Lowell Davidson. After studying biochemistry at Harvard University, he moved to New York and played with Ornette Coleman who urged the ESP Disk label to record him. If the pianist is known at all, it is for the obscure but acclaimed Lowell Davidson Trio (ESP Disk, ...

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Joe Morris Quartet: Graffiti in Two Parts

Read "Graffiti in Two Parts" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Graffiti in Two Parts, registrato al Cambridge Dance Center quasi trent'anni fa, presenta più di un motivo d'interesse. Il primo è che quel concerto eseguito in una calda serata di maggio del 1985 sembrava non trovare la via della pubblicazione discografica fino a quando Rogue Art non è riuscita a darne stampa nella sua elegante confezione cartonata. Il secondo è che si ha la possibilità di ascoltare un musicista come Lowell Davidson (1941-1990), pianista, batterista, contrabbassista (usava uno strumento acustico ...

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Joe Morris / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver: Altitude

Read "Altitude" reviewed by John Sharpe


Guitarist Joe Morris is on a roll. Hardly a month goes by without a new release featuring the Boston-based musician. Of course, he doubled his chances by adding acoustic bass to his armory alongside his six-stringed axe. It's the latter he wields on this trio date featuring bassist William Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver, captured at New York City's Stone in June, 2011. Strangely, given their long acquaintance, this is the first time this particular combination has recorded, though each ...

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The Spanish Donkey: XYX

Read "XYX" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


A volte, non esiste nulla di più confortante del rumore. Il rumore come spazzatura della storia, si dice. Il rumore come memoria, appunto, oppure, l'Arte dei Rumori. La confusione, il fracasso, rendono un'opera moderna viva, dentro alla quale è facilmente percepibile la consistenza emotiva dell'autore, del musicista, del suo imminente atto. L'improvvisazione - nel “pasticcio" cromatico di Jason Pollock e nell'improvvisazione del free-jazz - ha guidato l'espressione artistica in un moto di ribellione contro la Macchina, contro l'industria, contro il ...

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Joe Morris: Camera

Read "Camera" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'improvvisazione come cinepresa, in grado di esplorare tutto ciò che la circonda, e l'improvvisazione come macchina fotografica che di quella esplorazione ne coglie, il momento, l'unicità, l'istantaneità. Sono così i flash, gli umori e i pensieri tradotti in suoni, senza apparente filo logico, semplicemente come fermo immagine di una moltitudine di sensazioni tra le quali per districarsi bisogna scegliere un criterio per fare ordine. Per ottenere ciò Joe Morris allestisce una formazione non del tutto tradizionale, decisamente sbilanciata sul versante ...

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Joe Morris: Camera

Read "Camera" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Influential improvising guitarist Joe Morris ignites luminous imagery that casts a musically minded paradigm on how the diffraction of light may traverse a camera lens. However, individual interpretations can yield other enticing persuasions on Camera, engineered upon the grouping of stringed instruments and drums. “Street Scene" exemplifies Morris' clever articulations via fluttering storylines, largely executed at a brisk pace. Drummer Luther Gray lays out a peppery backbone for the soloists' dissecting call-and-response patterns, where subliminal nods to blues, ...


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