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Marty Ehrlich: A Trumpet In The Morning
by Dan Bilawsky
A Trumpet In The Morning is a first for multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich; it's the first album completely dedicated to his large group works and the first album under his name that's basically directed by his hand rather than his horn(s). The intrepid Ehrlich, who fell under the sway of St. Louis' Black Artists Group (BAG) in his formative years and fell in with the AACM crowd when he arrived in New York in the late '70s, has been putting out ...
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet: Frog Leg Logic
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un inizio dolce e soave, leggermente bucolico e cameristico, fa presagire paesaggi sonori celestiali e meditativi. Inaspettatamente al minuto uno e quarantadue irrompe il violoncello pizzicato di Hank Roberts che dà il via ad un blues torrido, cadenzato e sensuale. Sembra di sentirlo addosso il caldo umido del Delta, i profumi e gli odori intensi della natura, lo scorrere lento e indolente del grande fiume, il contralto di Marty Ehrlich voce di un lamento che si fa invocazione e poi ...
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet: Frog Leg Logic
by Troy Collins
The premier of Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet, Things Have Got To Change (Clean Feed, 2009), featured the venerable multi-instrumentalist's engaging originals bolstered by a handful of previously unrecorded pieces by his mentor, the late Julius Hemphill (1938-1995). Drawing on Hemphill's seminal work in the St Louis-based Black Artists' Group (BAG), and his innovative writing for the World Saxophone Quartet, Ehrlich has proven to be one of the legendary saxophonist's most ardent devotees, leading Hemphill's self-titled saxophone sextet after his passing.
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich Rites Quartet: Things Have Got To Change
by AAJ Italy Staff
Things Have Got to Change del quartetto del sassofonista Marty Ehrlich è il secondo disco nel giro di pochi mesi, dopo il fantastico Historicity di Vijay Iyer, a contemplare nella propria scaletta un capolavoro negletto del jazz contemporaneo come “Dogon A.D." di Julius Hemphill. In questo caso la circostanza non dovrebbe sorprendere più di tanto, dal momento che del compianto musicista di Forth Worth, Ehrlich è stato allievo e collaboratore, nonché - dopo la prematura scomparsa di Hemphill nel 1995 ...
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich: Things Have Got To Change
by Stuart Broomer
The clarity that's so immediately apparent in Marty Ehrlich's alto sound permeates his work, so that there's a quality at once naked and luminous in the music heard here. The quartet with trumpeter James Zollar, cellist Erik Friedlander and drummer Pheeroan akLaff and the concept harkens back to the early Ornette Coleman Quartet, each member committed to an intense lyricism, an insistence on the emotional power of blues and hymn. There are moments in the opening “Rites Rhythm" that even ...
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich Rites Quartet: Things Have Got To Change
by Troy Collins
One of the seminal artists of the New York Loft jazz scene, composer and multi-instrumentalist Julius Hemphill (1938-1995) left a diverse legacy that lives on through the tireless efforts of saxophonist Tim Berne and multi-instrumentalist Marty Ehrlich. Hemphill's earthy forays with cellist Abdul Wadud in the early seventies broke new stylistic ground, unapologetically drawing inspiration from funk, soul and R&B. His inventive writing for unconventional instrumental combinations was further realized as a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet and ...
Continue ReadingMarty Ehrlich - Myra Melford: Spark!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Marty Ehrlich e Myra Melford hanno spesso incrociato le loro strade. Non solo nel precedente disco in duo Yet Can Spring (Arabesque, 2001), ma anche nei vari gruppi che li hanno visti assieme, tra cui uno strepitoso quartetto (con Lindsey Horner e Reggie Nicholson) a nome della pianista e che fu in Italia per poche date nell’estate del 1996. La formula del duo in questo caso, come nella precedente prova, è articolata su un intreccio fitto tra parti improvvisate con ...
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