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Cecil Taylor: FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!
by John Kelman
83 years old and approaching ninety releases as a leader, pianist Cecil Taylor's place in the history of jazz may already rest assured, but he's more cited than seen these days. He may not come up as a primary influence as often as usual suspects Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner or Herbie Hancock, but in ...
Gerd Dudek: Day and Night
by John Eyles
When saxophonist Evan Parker started his Psi label back in late 2001, the label's second release--following his own solo album, Lines Burnt in Light (2001)--was the excellent 'Smatter (2002), by Gerd Dudek, the German saxophonist's first release under his own name. In January 2012, when Parker curated a week-long series of concerts at The Vortex in ...
Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall and the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio: London, UK, January 26, 2012
by John Sharpe
Aki Takase / Rudi Mahall and the Alexander von Schlippenbach TrioThe VortexLondonJanuary 26, 2012 The last week in January at north London's Vortex was given over to a mini-festival curated by saxophonist Evan Parker, genteelly entitled Might I Suggest." Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, it showcased several German-based musicians rarely seen ...
Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald: Live at Kassiopeia
by John Sharpe
Julius Hemphill / Peter KowaldLive at KassiopeiaNo Business Records2011 Out of the blue comes this double disc set featuring two distinguished alumni, both sadly now departed, of two parallel streams of musical pioneering. German bassist Peter Kowald was one of the authors of European free improvisation. Though initially ...
Bauhaus Dessau
By Alexander von Schlippenbach
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
1. Bauhaus 1 - 41:16; 2. Bauhaus 2 - 12:24; 3. Bauhaus 3 - 9:17.
At Quartier Latin
By Alexander von Schlippenbach
Label: FMP Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Black Holes; Three Nails Left, for P.L.; The Hidden Peak I; The Hidden
Peak II; The Hidden Peak III; The Hidden Peak IV; The Hidden Peak V.
Evan Parker's Psi Label Celebrates First Ten Years
by John Eyles
November 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label. Its first release, the fine Parker solo album Lines Burnt in Light, was recorded on October 11 2001 and released within a month of recording. In the following decade, the label released a total of 83 CD's of which 14 were re-releases including 13 ...
Matthias Winckelmann: Happy Birthday ENJA!
by Bob Hatteau
ECM, ACT, Winter & Winter, FMP, MPS, ENJA... Germany sounds like a generous land for creative jazz record labels. ENJA Records, the Münich-based jazz label, was founded in 1971 by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber. For the last forty years ENJA has built an impressive catalog, with more than seven hundred releases that ...
Rob Brown: Unknown Skies
by John Sharpe
Each year alto saxophonist Rob Brown brings a project to NYC's annual Vision Festival. Among the most raw and compelling was this stellar trio, featuring pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Nasheet Waits, which graced the 2009 gathering but had gone unrecorded, until now. Fortunately the voguish Paris-based Rogue Art imprint has issued a fine live recording ...


