Organic Grooves

Organic Grooves: Black Cherry

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2002

At last here's something that shimmies down the middle. Electronic music too often veers to the right (into the brainless netherworld of four-to-the-floor beats) or to the left (into the over-intellectualized haze of pure abstraction). Not so with Black Cherry, the first electronica outing from Brooklyn's premier out jazz label. This one's fresh and sharp, amply clever but always in the saddle of a solid groove.

Some background: last year, free jazzers Hamid Drake and William Parker laid down a ...