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Albert Ayler: Quartets 1964: Spirits To Ghosts Revisited
by Mark Corroto
When did you first encounter saxophonist Albert Ayler's music? Not 'hear' because hearing was just part of the experience. Call it the shock of the new or just the discovery of a totally original sound, Ayler's music was a revelation. That first encounter will probably always be one of those “where were you when you first ...
Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Efflorescence Volume 1
by Mark Corroto
Charles Darwin (1809—1882) might have set in motion, with his Theory of Biological Evolution, the idea that we humans are related to apes, but it was the later explorations into DNA and genetics that proves our basic structures are but a few variations from all other lifeforms on earth. What, you make ask, does this have ...
Luca Pedeferri: Exultation
by Alberto Bazzurro
Lecchese, trentasette anni, pianista e fisarmonicista, in questo suo nuovo lavoro Luca Pedeferri si rivolge all'opera di Henry Cowell, compositore, teorico e pianista californiano morto oltre mezzo secolo fa non ancora settantenne. Nove i temi rivisitati (con piglio squisitamente jazzistico, va detto subito, anche se non mancano gli scantonamenti in aree di umore più schiettamente contemporaneo), ...
Burton Greene / Damon Smith / Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Life’s Intense Mystery
by Mark Corroto
Let's give credit to whomever assembled this swinging free-improvisation trio. Sometimes, no, invariably, all great improvised music results from the reciprocal nature of the musicians: not something done in response to another (although it can be) but by some subconscious agreement made by the players. A fine example is Life's Intense Mystery by the trio of ...
Istanbul Jazz: So Close to the Music, So Far From New York
by Arthur R George
That any musician, old cat, young lion, or apprentice anywhere, endeavors in jazz is amazing enough, given the elusiveness of “success." That is even more true in Istanbul, Turkey: not a conventional jazz capitol, far from the African-American roots of jazz, and even beyond the music's major continental domiciles. Yet the tilting cobblestoned streets of the ...
Marco Colonna: Metamorphosis Of The Moment
by Neri Pollastri
Frutto del concerto di apertura del Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2018, il 13 settembre nella Chiesa di San Martino a Smartno, questo CD documenta un'esecuzione in solitudine di Marco Colonna, impegnato con un raro clarinetto di metallo degli anni Trenta e con il clarinetto basso. Di questo genere di spettacoli Colonna è un autentico ...
Sunny Murray: Homework
by John Sharpe
Sunny Murray, who died in December 2017, was one of the pioneers of free-jazz drumming, having established himself on seminal discs with pianist Cecil Taylor and saxophonist Albert Ayler during the 1960s. Homework presents Murray in 1994 in a bare-bones trio format with a pair of young Philadelphia musicians who went on to work in indie ...
Pharoah Sanders: Live At Antibes Jazz Festival Juan-Les-Pins
by Chris May
The first official (allegedly) release of this album for over 30 years, Live At Antibes Jazz Festival Juan-Les-Pins July 21, 1968 captures Pharoah Sanders on the cusp of stylistic change. It is a disc hardcore Sanders fans will treasure. From 1965-1967, with his own bands and in those led by John Coltrane, Sanders' paint-stripping ...
Free Jazz In Japan: A Personal History
by Ian Patterson
Free Jazz In Japan: A Personal History Soejima Teruto 367 Pages ISBN: 978-4-9908636-5-4 Public Bath Press 2019 An absolute legend in Japanese free-jazz circles, Soejima Teruto wrote about, lectured on and promoted the music he loved for almost sixty years. This personal account of the birth and development of ...
Marion Brown: Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee Revisited
by Chris May
The release of this album is an event momentous enough to warrant repeating the preamble to the previously published review of Albert Ayler's Quartets 1964: Spirits To Ghosts Revisited.... Before considering the music on this disc, something else has to be celebrated--the resurrection of Werner X. Uehlinger's Hat Hut label (see past profiles). Founded ...
