Jazz Articles about John Dikeman

John Dikeman / Pat Thomas / John Edwards / Steve Noble: Volume2

by Mike Jurkovic
June 25, 2023

If ever oh ever there was a more ornery conversation between four highly-charged, time-defiant individuals, Volume2 sets the mark. Arguing, as great men do, about all things seen and unseen, secular and sublime, consummate free jazzers saxophonist John Dikeman, pianist Pat Thomas, bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble circle the wagons once again at London's Cafe Otto and chase the demons and angels that co-inhabit each and every one of us. “No," its half-hour plus mad rush mix of biblical ...

Luís Vicente 4tet: House In The Valley

by Mark Corroto
March 29, 2023

There is a synergy in simplicity and, with the Luís Vicente 4tet, a simplicity which comes from the synergistic effects of this unpretentious quartet. The four musicians--Portuguese composer, leader & trumpeter Luís Vicente, Dutch drummer Onno Govaert, and the Americans, tenor saxophonist John Dikeman and bassist Luke Stewart--assembled for a series of concerts in Portugal in 2021. This recording was captured in Caldas da Rainha on July 19th. The simplicity here is the same honesty we hear in the early ...

Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido: Traantjes

by Angelo Leonardi
July 4, 2022

L'Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido è un visionario progetto dell'olandese Jeroen Kimman, che ha debuttato nel 2018 con l'album Stille ed ora riconferma tutto il suo eclettico e bizzarro universo stilistico con Traantjes (in olandese lacrime). In contraddizione con le nostalgiche illustrazioni della cover (ma anche qui si può discutere, vista la somiglianza con test proiettivi come il T.A.T., che fanno emergere l'inconscio), la musica assembla frammenti stilistici diversi, indulgendo sulle musiche popolari e bandistiche centroamericane e sul ...

John Dikeman, Pat Thomas, John Edwards, Steve Noble: Volume 1

by John Sharpe
April 19, 2022

For those worried about soaring energy bills, the inflammatory foursome of tenor saxophonist John Dikeman, pianist Pat Thomas, bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble certainly offers one solution. They must have truly warmed the room at London's Cafe Oto on a cold February evening in 2019, on the evidence of the forty-minute program presented on Volume 1. It is hard to think of a more potent set of practitioners of the free jazz vernacular than this particular agglomeration, all ...

ArtActs 22 - St. Johann in Tirol

by Luciano Rossetti
April 7, 2022

Spinifex: Beats The Plague

by Mark Corroto
January 24, 2022

Finally, a band of brothers retaliates against the coronavirus. The scientists and the anti-vax antipodes have had their day. Time for some partisan guerrilla action. Okay, maybe just a pipe dream, but these nine tracks by the Amsterdam based Spinifex deliver a much needed counterattack to this diabolical infective agent. Recorded in June of 2021, Beats The Plague is the band's seventh release. It follows Soufifex (TryTone, 2019) where the band looked East for inspiration from Sufi music. ...

Roy Campbell / John Dikeman / Raoul van der Weide / Peter Jacquemyn / Klaus Kugel: When The Time Is Right

by John Sharpe
January 8, 2022

This date from 2013 presents New York City based guests trumpeter Roy Campbell and German drummer Klaus Kugel with three Amsterdam-located improvisers as part of the DoEK organization's annual Festival. Campbell, a stalwart of the NYC avant scene who died in 2014, gained early exposure with Jemeel Moondoc's Ensemble Muntu and went on to helm his own Pyramid Trio and co-lead the revered cooperative Other Dimensions In Music, among a host of other projects. He brings his fiery updating of ...