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The Mark Lomax Trio: The State Of Black America
by Mark Corroto
Drummer/composer/band leader Mark Lomax must not be afraid of ghosts. Because with all the spirits hovering over his recording The State Of Black America, it would be understandable that he and his band of saxophonist Edwin Bayard and bassist Dean Hulett might be a bit intimidated to bridge the firebrand music of the 1960s from today's ...
Frode Gjerstad: A Feral Storm from Norway
by Clifford Allen
In February 2010, Norwegian alto saxophonist and clarinetist Frode Gjerstad took the collective Circulasione Totale Orchestra to the United States for a few select performances, the first time the multinational group had been convened on American soil and a massive undertaking and feat of organization for the 62-year-old improviser. The orchestra consists of musicians from Norway, ...
David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists
by Clifford Allen
In the void left by the deaths of saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, among the cheap rents in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn offering space to artists and musicians, the presence of affordable loft spaces birthed an intersection of jazz scenes in the 1970s. The music itself favored a variety of approaches, mostly built on the ...
Arild Andersen: Green Into Blue - Early Quartets
by John Kelman
He's one of Norway's “Big Four"—a group of artists who, with the assistance of the emerging ECM label in the early 1970s, kick-started international focus on the music from a country that, despite its relatively small population, has become a truly vital force in the evolution of jazz over the past 40 years. Alongside saxophonist Jan ...
The Golden Age Of Steam: Raspberry Tongue
by Bruce Lindsay
The musicians who combine to make The Golden Age Of Steam are part of an energetic and vibrant community of young British jazz players who work together in a seemingly endless series of collaborations and collectives. All three are already BBC Jazz Award winners--reed player James Allsopp and drummer Tim Giles winning the 2008 award for ...
Dave Liebman / Evan Parker / Tony Bianco: Relevance
by Nic Jones
This release documents the first time that saxophonists Dave Liebman and Evan Parker have worked together and given their respective lengths of service to the music, this is remarkable. What is less so, is the fact that they so readily found a common language given their respective takes on the aesthetic of John Coltrane. Of the ...
Keefe Jackson Quartet: Seeing You See
by Troy Collins
The vibrant Chicago jazz scene has been home to many impressive young artists, most of whom collaborate in a rotating roster of collective ensembles. This communal approach has yielded a deep pool of talented individuals intimately familiar with each other's working methods, providing them with a sort of regional shorthand. Multi-reedist Keefe Jackson is one such ...
Little Women: Throat
by Nic Jones
Little Women spans the divide between the primitive and the sophisticated in a manner that's true of so few. For this, its second release, it's useful to offer pointers such as Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann (whose “Machine Gun" is particularly pertinent in terms of sonic assault), but they serve merely to place what this quartet ...
Steve Colson: Doing Jazz Justice
by Gordon Marshall
As well as being a great music educator, Steve Colson is one of the most versatile jazz pianists of the last forty years, with a grasp of idioms ranging from swing to free, and from European romanticism to new music. What's more, he is a master of compression, incorporating these sources into solos and compositions with ...
Bangkok Jazz Festival: Days 4-6
by Ian Patterson
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6Bangkok Jazz Festival Central Plaza, Bangkok March 9-14, 2010 The fourth day of the Bangkok Jazz Festival featured only one act on the main stage, so there was a chance to catch some of the music on the second stage. Apart from the university student ...
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