Jazz Articles about Will Connell Jr.

About Will Connell Jr.

Album Review

Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane: At Iridium 2004

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by Jack Kenny
July 14, 2026

At Iridium 2004 is a vast work. Cecil Taylor also leaves behind similarly vast territories of sound: the 10-disc Feel Trio recordings 2 Ts For A Lovely T (Codanza Records, 1995) or the monumental In Berlin '88 box (FMP, 1989). Within jazz, his music stands like a monolith--challenging and imposing. Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane's At Iridium 2004 continues the tradition. Taylor's hallmark intensity remained undiminished at the Iridium residency. Contemporary accounts suggest that these performances functioned less as ...

Album Review

DUX Orchestra: Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results)

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by John Sharpe
September 30, 2020

The cover of the 1994 archival recording Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results) by the DUX Orchestra presents an intriguing line up which combines American free jazzers with Swedish baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Even within the New York City contingent there is diversity, as veteran stickman Walter Perkins (who played with Sonny Rollins, Roland Kirk and Charles Mingus among many others) rubs shoulders with young drummer Susie Ibarra (in her pre-David S. Ware days), stalwart reedmen Dave Sewelson and Will ...

Album Review

Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1981/1983

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 9, 2010

La cosiddetta sessionography dei Commitment, quartetto di fama inversamente proporzionale al suo reale rilievo (e valore), consta di sei sedute, di fatto tre coppie, comprese fra il 1979 e l'83: due registrazioni radiofoniche (15.5.1979 e 23.4.1982, quest'ultima con orchestra aggiunta), due audience recordings (29.2.1980 e 3.8.1983) e due incisioni ufficiali, una in studio (13-14.10.1980), l'altra live (20.5.1983). ,p> Queste ultime compongono l'odierna, preziosa ristampa, recuperando i due LP originari: Commitment (tracce da 1 a 5 del primo CD, e il ...