Jazz Articles about Fifty-Fifty

Fifty-Fifty: Fragments

by Nic Jones
October 15, 2010

Entering the territory mapped by reeds/drums duos is a surprisingly risky undertaking, given the precedents: John Coltrane with Rashied Ali, Evan Parker with Paul Lovens, and the line-up of AMM that featured percussionist Eddie Prévost keeping the company of tenor saxophonist Lou Gare. For all its undoubted merits, the German duo Fifty-Fifty maybe just isn't ready to keep such fast company. Often the music remains earthbound, for all of the duo's obvious empathy. The repetitive nature of ...