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Amalgam: Innovation
by Rex Butters
In the early '60s Trevor Watts and John Stevens initiated the long-lived free jazz association that became known as Amalgam. Their extended tenure altered Euro jazz and improvised music forever, following their first recording in '69. Tangent records released their third album, Innovation , in 1974, after their Play Blackwell and Higgins set and several sessions recorded with trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Weirdly saddled with a “jazz rock" reputation with the addition of guitarist Keith Rowe after these sessions, the Innovation ...
Continue ReadingRendell-Carr & Keith Tippett: Ever Increasing Circles
by Nic Jones
In the early 1960s things were happening. In that seminal decade, the allure of which remains so great that people not even born at the time can feel vicarious nostalgia for it, both British and European jazz produced instrumentalists with the ability and know-how to establish themselves as distinctive voices within an ever-widening continuum of jazz. Of the three musicians discussed here Don Rendell has the longest pedigree, having been a member of the band Stan Kenton employed on his ...
Continue ReadingPaul Rutherford/Julie Tippett / Keith Tippett / Paul Rogers: Rottor: The First Full Turn
by Robert Spencer
Paul Rutherford is the great innovator of the trombone: his Gentle Harm of The Bourgeoisie is described justly (on the CD sleeve of this disc) as “the definitive solo trombone record." On Rottor: The First Full Turn Rutherford is joined by vocalist Julie Tippett (who has brought along her thumb piano), her husband, pianist Keith Tippett (who also plays bells and maracas), and bassist Paul Rogers. Those who missed Gentle Harm can also get a taste of Rutherford's solo technique ...
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