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Resonance Records: Non-Profit Jazz Label with a Mission
by Samuel Chell
It's a story often heard before: musically, these are the best and worst of times. Only this time, in 2010, it seems different. Even as the pool of fresh talent expands, jazz continues to witness a dearth of venues along with the slump in CD sales. Uncounted numbers of talented musicians, young and otherwise, are reduced ...
Raphael Imbert Trio: N_Y Project
by Bruce Lindsay
Bookending eleven of your own tunes with Duke Ellington's “Echoes of Harlem" and John Coltrane's “Central Park West" is a bold decision for any jazz musician to make--it's a confident statement and a risky one. On N_Y Project the decision pays off--saxophonist Raphael Imbert's compositions have their own strengths and innovations, ensuring that they stand such ...
Byard Lancaster: Sounds of Liberation: New Horizons
by Clifford Allen
In the years following saxophonist John Coltrane's death and the related dearth of opportunities to perform and record the New Music stateside, a significant body of musicians relocated to Europe, to ply their art in a more receptive atmosphere. Reedman Byard Lancaster was one of the second wave of American free jazz musicians to relocate to ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort
by Eyal Hareuveni
The experience of listening to the highly gifted quartet Mostly Other Do the Killing (MOPDtK) is like taking a ride on roller-coaster while drunk, but still trusting your life in the hands of a wild driver who often has some epileptic fits. It is fun, no doubt; a wild fun, like going to a circus. But ...
High Octane Free Improv: Adam Caine Trio & Vinny Golia/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter
by Clifford Allen
History paints an image of high energy rock music and free improvisation as having very little to do with one another--which isn't surprising considering the fact that heavily-amplified rock power trios were marketed as improvisation-heavy blues for mostly white audiences (giving saxophonist Albert Ayler short shrift). When jazz musicians like drummer Tony Williams and guitarist John ...
For Latin Lovers: Mark Weinstein, Claudio Roditi, Emilio Solla
by J Hunter
In many ways, the description “Latin jazz" is no more useful than the umbrella description “jazz." There are sub-genres inside the sub-genre, all of them with subtle color changes that provide different flavors, even though it all can lead to the same satisfying result. Here are three early 2010 entrants into this musical conversation.
Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum
by AAJ Staff
Introduction by AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen. It is rare in the climate of this music to be presented with a view of an artist that is truly multifaceted, even though the collected works of most artists operate at a number of levels and, on occasion, in a number of media. Bill Dixon is probably best known ...
John Geggie: Unexpected Conversations
by John Kelman
Most cities have them: musicians who act like a lightning rod, focusing and driving their jazz scenes. In Ottawa, Canada, bassist John Geggie has been one of those significant focal points for two decades, but in particular over the past ten years. He's one of the founding organizers and faculty members of Jazzworks which, amongst other ...
Signs Along The Road
by Jakob Baekgaard
Signs Along The Road Henry Grimes Soft cover; 128 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020142-4 Buddy's Knife 2007 Bassist Henry Grimes was one of the leading lights on the free jazz scene in the 1960s, playing with many of the music's most famous names, including pianist Cecil ...
Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...
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