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Gina Schwarz Unit featuring Jim Black: Woodclock
by Eyal Hareuveni
Austrian, Vienna-based double bassist Gina Schwarz found a true, like-minded musical partner that helped her realize her irreverent vision for today's jazz. American drummer Jim Black joined Schwarz's quintet for her fifth album, solidifying her reputation as a “live-cell therapy to jazz," an opinionated musician who likes to play with opposites--wise and free, gentle and wild, ...
Mette Henriette: Mette Henriette
by Neri Pollastri
Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg, classe 1990, nata a Trondheim, nel centro della Norvegia, ma di origini sami, improvvisatrice, compositrice, sax tenore, cresciuta artisticamente in modo precoce e “selvaggio," cioè con una formazione musicale plurale e disorganica: tali i cenni biografici dell'autrice di questo doppio CD, da molti salutato come sorpresa dell'anno e annuncio di una nuova ...
Ches Smith with Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri: The Bell
by Karl Ackermann
Despite appearing on at least fifty recordings since 2001, Ches Smith remains the more under-recognized, yet highly in-demand, member of this newly formed trio. The drummer/percussionist and vibraphonist for Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Smith has played with John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), as well as Wadada Leo Smith, and guitarists Fred Frith and ...
Ches Smith and These Arches: Hammered
by Glenn Astarita
Four progressive-jazz and improvising luminaries lend their expertise for New York City-based drummer Ches Smith's foray into a multi-purposed set, exploring and splitting the frontiers of avant-garde jazz, rock and other genres into asymmetrical components. Thus far, the artist has been in the thick of things, amassing an impressive discography, performing and recording with notables such ...
Ches Smith and These Arches: Hammered
by Mark F. Turner
Drummer, composer, and bandleader Ches Smith is an artist with indisputable abilities who thrives on the fringes whether supplying tight rhythms for notable musicians such as guitarist Marc Ribot, saxophonist Darius Jones, and the indie rock band Xiu Xiu, or creating self-produced works like his solo multi-instrumental electronic project Psycho Predictions (Preposterous Bee,2012). ...
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed
by Dave Wayne
Min-Yoh is the newest star in pianist Satoko Fujii's growing constellation of amazing improvising groups. While the presence of her partner in music and life, virtuoso trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, is a given, Fujii's musical interactions with a seemingly endless array of top-drawer improvisers from all over the world are almost as intimate. The pair gives the ...
Ches Smith, Tyshawn Sorey & Roy Haynes
by Martin Longley
Ches Smith & These Arches The Stone August 30, 2011 John Zorn's Stone was pretty much sold out for this single set by drummer Ches Smith's five-piece band. That's 74 folks crammed into a thankfully air-conditioned zone. The reason that the normally silenced A/C was allowed to thrum is ...
Jim Black: One Great Night...Live; Houseplant & Kyrill
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim BlackOne Great Night...LivehatOLOGY2009 Jim Black's AlasNoAxisHouseplantWinter & Winter2009 Achim KaufmannKyrillPirouet Records2009 For almost 15 years, drummer Jim Black's approach ...
Ellery Eskelin with Andrea Parkins and Jim Black: One Great Night...Live
by Glenn Astarita
As of 2009, Ellery Eskelin and his band mates have been playing together for fifteen years with no let up in sight--good news for advocates of cutting-edge, progressive jazz and improvisation. Recorded live at Towson University in saxophonist Eskelin's home town of Baltimore, Maryland, the trio's multitasking ways come to fruition during this near flawlessly recorded ...
Ellery Eskelin/ Sylvie Courvoisier: Every So Often
by Mark Corroto
The improvisational intersection of American and European music exemplified in the recording Every So Often finds common ground without much trouble when the improvisers are Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisier. This hour of sonically stellar studio recordings never lacks for innovation nor repeats ideas. Saxophonist Eskelin, a jazz maverick is probably best known for ...
