Recording News

Matt Bauder Fields Excellent Quintet for "Day in Pictures"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
April 27, 2011

Reed-tenor jazzologist Matt Bauder has integrity. He writes well. He plays with the assurance of someone who has internalized the music, grasped its essentials and communed with his instruments to emerge with a kind of brilliance and right-sounding quality. And as a bandleader he can pick the right people too. A Day In Pictures (Clean Feed 210) gives you plenty of evidence to consider, and plenty of inspired moments to appreciate. He's gathered together a quintet that gells nicely. Matt's ...

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Mathias Eick - Skala (ECM Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
April 27, 2011

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Mathias Eick performs in a number contexts, from the hard to classify fusion group Jaga Jazzist to his jazz recordings as a leader and a sideman for ECM Records.

This album adds a pop sheen to an interesting group consisting of a wide variety of musicians and musical textures. Eick primarily plays the trumpet with a light and airy tone that adds an air of mystery to the opener “Skala." Against a gentle soundscape backdrop, the group builds ...

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Nicholas Payton - Sonic Trance (2003)

Source: Something Else!
April 27, 2011

By Mark Saleski Why do people hit a musical wall at a certain point in their life? They stop listening to anything put out after their high school (or college) years. Worst of all: they just stop listening. Music is no longer a part of their life. Of course, there are a whole lot of reasons. They mostly boil down to the pressures of adult existence: career, marriage, kids, rent, car payments, divorce, etc. I can see that, though I ...

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King Crimson - The Condensed 21st Century Guide (2006)

Source: Something Else!
April 27, 2011

By Tom Johnson King Crimson has been a chameleon throughout its four decades of existence, not just shifting to reflect the times but also acting as a sort of quality-assurance agent, issued forth new offerings at just the right times when it seems that music might just slide into morass. What King Crimson had lacked, until this release, was a comprehensive collection that showcased just what the band has accomplished in its nearly four decades. While most good music listeners ...

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Tim Berne - Insomnia (Clean Feed 2011) ****a1/2

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
April 27, 2011

By Joe Higham Tim Berne's international octet recorded INSOMNIA live in the studio, summer 1997, finally it gets to see the light of day now in 2011. If you know Tim Berne you're probably already aware of his compositional style, playing etc and this doesn't stray far from his normal territory. If however you're not so familiar here's your chance to enter into the world of Tim Berne in style. In recent years Tim Berne has often been working with ...

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Shirley Scott: Hip Soul

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 27, 2011

In the late '50s, through the '60s and into the '70s, albums by sax-organ combos seem to have been recorded every three minutes at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey. The Prestige label cornered the market on this format early, matching every possible Hammond B3 player with every conceivable tenor saxophonist. The number of reed-organ recordings for Prestige easily must total in the hundreds. Among the most consistently interesting of these sessions were recordings by Shirley Scott [pictured above] ...

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Keyboardist Patrick Bradley Making the Best of His Time "Under the Sun"

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
April 27, 2011

The jazz fusion artist and guest stars take a Straight Path to the radio charts Aliso Viejo, CA: Celebrating his birthday today while fondly remembering his father, who passed away on this date in 2007, keyboardist Patrick Bradley knows how precious life is and he plans to make the most of his time here despite incessant, spirit-crushing struggles. The jazz fusion artist is making an inspired, life-affirming musical statement with todays release of Under The Sun, his second album for ...

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Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti Releases "Pattern Time" (Innova)

Source: AMT Public Relations
April 26, 2011

Lukas Ligeti: PATTERN TIME CD Release 4/26 Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti Explores Varying Rhythmic Patterns in Experimental Improvisation and African Jazz “[Lukas] Ligeti isn't trying to create some globally homogenized soundworld...his music is defiantly individual...—The Guardian (UK) NEW YORK, NY—Composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti lays the foundations for a new idiom in the realm of creative improvised music and African-influenced jazz in his latest album, PATTERN TIME (Innova Recordings). United by a shared interest in rhythmic explorations in improvised music, Lukas assembles a ...

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