Jazz Articles about Peter Brotzmann/Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke

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Peter Brotzmann/Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke: Two City Blues 2

by Mark Corroto
May 4, 2015

The music of legendary jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann is at its finest when the great man has something to push against. Typically these performances find him collaborating with drummers like Hamid Drake, Paal Nilssen-Love, Steve Noble, or Nasheet Waits. The music is built upon a power-versus-power formula. The drummer bloodies his nose, and he's off--throwing roundhouse punches and haymakers. It's something altogether different, and just the same here, where he is in the company of two guitarists, Jim ...