Jazz Articles about Jonathon Haffner

About Jonathon Haffner

Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet: The Chicago Symphonies

Read "The Chicago Symphonies" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
November 26, 2021

The prolific virtuoso Wadada Leo Smith gave us two TUM Records box sets in the first half of 2021 and will end the year with two more, including the very ambitious The Chicago Symphonies. The four-disc collection features the trumpeter/composer's Great Lakes Quartet with saxophonist/flutist Henry Threadgill, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The final disc trades Threadgill for saxophonist Jonathon Haffner. Smith, who composed each of the movements, took his inspiration from Don Cherry 's Symphony ...

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Album Review

Jonathon Haffner: Life on Wednesday

Read "Life on Wednesday" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 15, 2009

Alto saxophonist Jonathon Haffner's band on Life on Wednesday puts up a united front, sounding as integrated as the internal workings of a utilitarian, high horsepower industrial machine. But that machine has some grit in its innards on the set's opener, “Time Time," with a rasp of Wayne Krantz' metallic guitar paired with Craig Taborn's Wurlitzer meshing into a dense groove from the dual drums ofJochen Rueckert and Kenny Wollesen, alongside bassist Eivind Opsvik.Indeed, the hard metal, industrial ...