Jazz Articles about Thomas Borgmann

About Thomas Borgmann

Album Review

Surprises can come in the most unlikely guises and under the least likely names. Jazz is the latest example of that old maxim to never judge a book by its cover. The combination of the group name Boom Box--conjuring up images of hip-hop and oversized ghetto blasters--and a graphic style reminiscent of Peter Brötzmann albums does nothing to hint at the subtle delights to be found within. Fortunately, the album title itself is well chosen, acting as a counterweight to ...

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Thomas Borgmann: Thomas Borgmann Trio with Peter Brotzmann: Stalker Songs

by Derek Taylor
December 1, 1999

Thomas Borgmann's trio with Wilbur Morris and Denis Charles, though short-lived, was one of the top creative improvising jazz units of the last several years. After Charles death the group reformed into its current incarnation with Reggie Nicholson filling the drum chair. Recordings made before the earlier trio's demise are documents to treasure and this recording taped in the sonically inviting confines of the Spirit Room finds the original three in top form with the added wildcard factor of the ...

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Thomas Borgmann/Wilbur Morris/Reggie Nicholson: BMN...You See What We

by Derek Taylor
November 1, 1999

The passing of Denis Charles left many rifts on the landscape of creative improvised music one of which was the necessary demise of the trio he shared with Borgmann and Morris. Recouping the loss as best a possible the two surviving musicians enlisted the aid of Reggie Nicholson and embarked on an exhaustive but edifying 8000 mile tour of Europe and the States. This session taped, in the acoustically inviting Spirit Room (which at the time of this writing is ...