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Evan Parker: Alder Brook & Birds and Blades
by Andrey Henkin
Evan Parker, perhaps the John Coltrane of English music, has made a career of lending his utterly unique approach to any number of long-standing groups and individual recordings. By virtue of his complex musicianship and extremely open approach to group playing, he fits seamlessly in any configuration into which he is drawn, never dominating or flashy, ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach: Globe Unity 2002 & Broomriding
by Andrey Henkin
At the fiery cataclysm that ends all creation, Alexander von Schlippenbach may get a reprieve for being the one of the most significant European musicians of the past 40 years. His body of work is extensive but he is most known for two radically different spheres of accomplishment: small group work beginning with ...
Peter Kowald/Miya Masaoka/Gino Robair: Illuminations
by Andrey Henkin
Japanese art’s most famous series is perhaps its “Views of Mount Fuji” by the woodblock artist Hokusai. In the series, he portrays the mountain from various locations in Japan; in certain cases as the prominent subject of the work; in others a distant point in the background of a teahouse or lake scene. One is swept ...
All About Jazz: New York Best of 2003
by Andrey Henkin
We've created several best of lists for 2003 ranging from the best live shows to the best reissues. Enjoy!Quick LinksBest New Releases Of 2003 Musicians Of The Year Musicians To Watch Best Vocal Releases Best Latin Releases Unearthed Gems Best Reissues Best Shows Of 2003 Best Record Labels Books Of The Year
Trumpeter Enrico Rava
by Andrey Henkin
For those who maintain that jazz is purely an American music, go check your record collection and see how many times the name Enrico Rava shows up. The trumpeter in many ways defines Italian jazz as well as how the music has become an international phenomenon. Rava's accomplishments are myriad. “I think I ...
Don Friedman: Waltz for Debby
by Andrey Henkin
Somewhere Attila Zoller is smiling, pleased to see to his one-time foil, pianist Don Friedman, playing to a full audience at the Jazz Standard last month in support of his new album Waltz for Debby. Those giddy days of the Zoller-Friedman quartet days are long past, but Don Friedman has lost little of the touch that ...
Miroslav Vitous - Universal Syncopations
by Andrey Henkin
Miroslav VitousUniversal Syncopations ECM 2003 Bassist Miroslav Vitous, veteran of the bands of Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd, Chick Corea and numerous others had a dream decade after coming to the states in 1966 on a music scholarship. Within years, he would record one of the seminal ...
Andrew Hill: Passing Ships
by Andrey Henkin
Andrew Hill Passing Ships Blue Note 2003 The history of Blue Note Records is in many ways the history of the golden age of jazz. When Blue Note changed, the whole face of jazz changed. After releasing classic sides one after another for much of the '60s, Blue ...
Ayler Records
by Andrey Henkin
For a genre with as small a market share as jazz, there are no end to labels big and small peddling artists known and unknown. As the big three become more staid and conservative, it is up to small independent outfits to make sure of some level of vibrancy and innovation. It is ...
Steve Lacy: Straight from the Horn
by Andrey Henkin
“I wanted to come back. You can't stay away forever. I'm from here, I'm from New York and it was time to come home." Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, whose career began inauspiciously in 1954 on an instrument which would lose its main progenitor in Sidney Bechet five years later, made this statement recently during ...
