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John Abercrombie at The Jazz Bakery, L. A.
by Jim Santella
John Abercrombie Quartet The Jazz Bakery Los Angeles, California Friday, April 20, 2007
The interpretations that guitarist John Abercrombie and his quartet gave to each selection for the first set of a Friday night opening engagement at Los Angeles' Jazz Bakery allowed for plenty of room to stretch out. Each of the four musicians made contributions that meshed seamlessly and dynamically, producing an inspired session. Uniformly wearing black and appearing, oh so ...
Continue ReadingJohn Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Jim Santella
With this quartet's third album, John Abercrombie interprets a program of eight original compositions plus “Round Trip by Ornette Coleman and “Epilogue by pianist Bill Evans. The choices show where this modern mainstream guitarist comes from, as the quartet's session pulls from jazz's creative tradition: rich in harmonic surprises and yet free and unique.
Violinist Mark Feldman, double bassist Marc Johnson, drummer Joey Baron and guitarist Abercrombie are a serious bunch. Their cohesive interplay allows them to move ...
Continue ReadingJohn Abercrombie Quartet at the Hilton Ballroom
by Troy Collins
John Abercrombie QuartetCentral Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz eventHilton BallroomHarrisburg, PennsylvaniaSunday, April 15, 2007
The dedicated touring ensemble is a rarity in today's jazz scene--a thing of rare beauty to cherish in these times of collective projects, pick-up bands and ad hoc all-star ensembles. Guitarist John Abercrombie brought his long-running quartet to the expansive Hilton Ballroom to promote their third album together, the aptly titled The Third Quartet (ECM, 2007). Slowly unveiling a ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
There is a continuum in jazz, as in most music genera, which extends from the most rigidly defined and precisely contained performance to the antithetically free and fully open recital. To offer examples of the former, one might consider swing era big band music of the Glenn Miller ilk. The latter is embodied in John Coltrane's late period as typified in Interstellar Space (Impulse!, 1967). Guitarist John Abercrombie, and the quartet he has fronted since 2000, falls to the right ...
Continue ReadingThe John Abercrombie Quartet at Birdland
by Budd Kopman
The John Abercrombie QuartetBirdlandNew York, NYApril 11, 2007, 9:00 PM This night was the beginning of a four-night stand and the band had just finished a European tour. It became clear quite quickly that they were in a good mood since what sounded like tuning up evolved very smoothly into the first tune of the set. While faking out the audience about a song's actual beginning is not new, in this ...
Continue ReadingJohn Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Terzo album per questo stellare quartetto, sulla carta capitanato dal chitarrista John Abercrombie (autore di quasi tutte le composizioni), ma di fatto assolutamente paritetico con Mark Feldman al violino, Marc Johnson al contrabbasso e Joey Baron alla batteria. Del resto, quando ci si confronta con musicisti di questo calibro, tutte stelle di prima grandezza del firmamento jazz, è impossibile (e forse sterile ed inutile) assegnare la leadership della band al singolo musicista. Mai come in questo caso il risultato è ...
Continue ReadingJohn Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Budd Kopman
John Abercrombie has recorded for ECM since 1973 (Dave Liebman's Lookout Farm (ECM, 1974)) and has credits on about fifty albums as a leader, beginning with Timeless (ECM, 1975), co-leader and sideman. The Third Quartet is the third (unsurprisingly) record by this quartet comprised of Abercrombie on guitar, violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, preceded by Cat 'n' Mouse (ECM, 2002) and Class Trip (ECM, 2004). If you have not heard this group ...
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