Jazz Articles about The OGJB Quartet

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Album Review

The OGJB Quartet, a formidable all-star grouping of saxophonist Oliver Lake, cornetist Graham Haynes, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Barry Altschul, are back with their second album, one even more wide-ranging and soulful than their first, Bamako, (TUM, 2019). The album combines tracks based on gutbucket rhythms with others full of exploratory abstractions. The album title, Ode To O, refers to Ornette Coleman and the title track, written by Altschul, has he and Fonda laying down an assured ...

Album Review

The OGJB Quartet: Bamako

by Jerome Wilson
July 26, 2019

Over the last forty years, saxophonist Oliver Lake, cornet player Graham Haynes, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Barry Altschul have played with one another in various configurations, but never all as one group. That changes with the arrival of the OGJB Quartet, a group where these four veteran improvisers come together for a powerful session of full-blast modern jazz. Everyone sounds in top form here but the heart of the group is Fonda, an underrated bassist who has ...

Album Review

The OGJB Quartet: Bamako

Read "Bamako" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 11, 2019

Finland's TUM Records started out the year 2019 with two compelling releases, Around Again, an innovative piano trio set from Finish pianist Iro Haarla exploring the compositions of Carla Bley, with bassist Ulf Krokfors and drummer Barry Altschul; and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's terrific Rosa Parks: Pure Love. They follow up this opening salvo with the disc at hand, Bamako by The OGJB Quartet. An avant-garde all-star outing featuring the democratic collective of saxophonist Oliver Lake, cornetist Graham ...