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Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi: Strength & Power
by C. Michael Bailey
Octogenarian Roswell Rudd just released a frighteningly traditional recording with vocalist Heather Masse on the brilliant August Love Song (Red House, 2016). But that is not what he is most known for. Rudd has been a jazz freedom fighter who made his bones in the 1960s, when Rudd collaborated with free jazz functionaries: New York Art Quartet; the Michael Mantler & Carla Bley 1968 Jazz Composer, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Larry Coryell and Gato Barbieri. Foremost in his ...
Continue ReadingRoswell Rudd & Heather Masse: August Love Song
by C. Michael Bailey
I am reading a book entitled When Breathe Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi. The book details the most fundamental things of life, those things as close to us as skin. He derives his title from the 17th Century sonnet series by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621. Greville was no George Gordon, Lord Byron, much less a John Milton, his ...
Continue ReadingRoswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi: Strength & Power
by Dan Bilawsky
Buckle up. This is one wild ride that cares not for your apprehension, concerns, expectations, or fears. Pianist Jamie Saft and two of his regular collaborators--bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi--got together with trombone icon Roswell Rudd to get down to the art of music making with nothing but their senses to guide them. It was an improvised session in its purest form--no charts, no sketches, and no preconceived notions about where things should or shouldn't go. These men ...
Continue ReadingRoswell Rudd: The Incredible Honk
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a distinct sense of the celebration of his 75th year on this good earth as trombonist Roswell Rudd continues the journey through his singular musical universe on his superb The Incredible Honk. Criss-crossing the paths he took when he first reconnected with ethnomusicologist producer and soul mate Verna Gillis, Rudd undertakes a sonic sojourn from the heartland of America, through Cuba, Scotland, continental Europe, the Far East and West Africa, returning to his beloved Kerhonkson. His musical cohorts ...
Continue ReadingRoswell Rudd: The Musical Magus Turns 75
by Raul d'Gama Rose
"Years ago it would have seemed an impossible dream to get to record with this musical magus, but here we are... and what a thrill!" class="f-right">--Charlie Kohlhase, From liner notes to Eventuality: The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd (Nada, 2001) I see him suddenly as if in a dream. His eyes are somewhat cynical, questioning and beautiful. Wrinkles of laughter pucker up at the edges, and he reminds me of my father. ...
Continue ReadingRoswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe & The Light
by George Kanzler
Roswell RuddTrombone TribeSunnyside2009 The Second ApproachThe LightSoLyd2009 The peripatetic, both geographically and musically, trombonist Roswell Rudd ranges far and wide on these two albums: a trombone-dominated romp involving five bands from two continents and a collaboration with a Russian improvising trio at a Moscow club. Trombone Tribe could well be called ...
Continue ReadingRiccardo Fassi - Roswell Rudd 4tet: Double Exposure
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sono diversi i punti di forza di questa felice collaborazione discografica di Riccardo Fassi con Roswell Rudd: la squisita musicalità del pianista, peraltro abile arrangiatore; l'inconfondibile voce strumentale rude e vociferante di Rudd; le perle compositive di Herbie Nichols. Come ciliegina sulla torta, una ritmica di assoluta eccellenza al servizio dell'inarrestabile espressività che può vantare ancora il trombonista statunitense, dalla forza e dalla profondità intatte. Un incontro musicale felicissimo, che al di là di un linguaggio di base armonicamente molto ...
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