Home » Jazz Articles » Paul Motian
Jazz Articles about Paul Motian
Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 5
by Mark F. Turner
An unorthodox timekeeper and masterful drummer, Paul Motian's momentum has not waned since working with Bill Evans in the 1950s, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Keith Jarrett's American Quartet in the 1960s, and, more recently, younger artists including Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik and Mat Maneri in Two Miles a Day (Loyal Label, 2007). Among Motian's many recordings as a leader, his On Broadway series started in 1989, on the German JMT label, featuring past members Bill Frisell and Joe ...
Continue ReadingPaul Motian: Zen Brushstrokes
by Tom Greenland
Larry Gelb America Is Free ImaginMusic 2008 George Garzone Among Friends Stunt Records 2009 Michael Adkins Quartet Rotator Hat Hut 2008 Ed Schuller & the Reunion Trio Serendipity: Live at A-Trane, Berlin Tutu Records 2009
Continue Reading
Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. II
by Ted Gordon
This is indoor music: music for contemplating, sitting and smoking, letting it smolder in the ears and grow. Paul Motian, the veteran drummer whose mature, idiosyncratic percussive language has been shaped by years of playing with Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett and others, shines on this album: he seems completely at home, considered, even slow at some points. Nearly a generation after he recorded the legendary session at the Village Vanguard with Evans in 1961, Motian returned with his ...
Continue ReadingPaul Motian: Time and Time Again
by Nenad Georgievski
There's always magic in the air whenever Paul Motian, Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano get together and this album is no exception. A sequel to the brilliant I Have the Room Above Her (ECM, 2005), this is another master painting by these fine artists. Jazz has always favored individual voices and expressionism, and these players have proven themselves undisputed masters on their instruments. But jazz also favors teamwork, something that is definitely evident on Time and Time Again. Several decades ...
Continue ReadingPaul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz
by Francis Lo Kee
Marc CoplandNew York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: VoicesPirouet2008 Bill EvansPortrait in JazzRiverside-Concord2008 Paul Motian is a catalytic musician. His imaginative playing shapes the sound of a project in a way that most other drummers would generally not consider. Where most drummers would simply keep some kind of steady beat through an entire piece, or ...
Continue ReadingPaul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard - Vol. 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un'occhiata ai titoli dei brani, con quello “Standard Time" in bella evidenza, seguito da “If You Could See Me Now", mi ha fatto temere il peggio. Non sono infatti un grande estimatore degli standard. E dunque ... Non appena ho messo il CD nel lettore, tuttavia, i miei timori sono stati spazzati via da un incipit tipicamente Motianiano, con accenti spostati ed armonie assolutamente contemporanee. Ritornato in pace con il CD (che sciocco che ero stato a dubitare di Motian!), ...
Continue ReadingThe Paul Motian Octet at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Paul Motian OctetBirdlandNew York City, New YorkJanuary 31, 2008 It is always a treat to be able to hear a group live that made a deep impression on record. This band was basically that on Motian's release Garden of Eden (ECM, 2006), with a few additions and subtractions. Instead of three guitarists, there were two, Ben Monder and Steve Cardenas, stage left. Both of the saxophonists from the recording, Tony Malaby and Chris Cheek, ...
Continue Reading
