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Otomo Yoshihide Quartet: Allurements of the Ellipsoid
by Mark Corroto
The minimalist improvisation of Otomo Yoshihide's Quartet, assembled for the 2005 Donaueschinger Music Festival, delivers a thoroughly abstract sound that could never be described as obtuse. This coming together of heavyweight improvisers yielded two discs--one, a studio session and the other, a live performance--recorded over three days. Those familiar with the genius of Yoshihide's music can follow his career from the noisy rock of his band Ground Zero to his swinging free jazz recordings for small and large ...
read moreOtomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet: Live in Lisbon
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una serata indimenticabile. Prontamente registrata dalla Clean Feed in casa propria, a Lisbona. Che l'organico jazz di Otomo Yoshihide - può variare dall'essenziale quintetto qui presente al settetto, fino a giungere al pieno della piccola orchestra - fosse una delle “creature" sonore più avvincenti di questi ultimi anni non è certo una novità, ma la straordinaria tensione di questo concerto portoghese è tale da stupire anche gli appassionati più benevoli. Essenziale il quintetto, dicevamo. Senza vibrafono o voci, con soli ...
read moreOtomo Yoshihide: Plays Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch
by Andrey Henkin
Eric Dolphy's final studio album is hailed as one of the finest examples of mid-'60s post bop. Its reputation is purely one of backwards significance. Dolphy, having recorded the album in February 1964, was in Europe less than six weeks later and was dead less than two months after that. Though likely he never held a copy in his hands or heard any critical opinion of it, it marked his last flurry of original compositions and is considered his apex. ...
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