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Aram Shelton's Arrive - There Was... (Clean Feed, 2011)
Saxophonist Aram Shelton has become a fixture on the modern jazz scene in Chicago, Oakland and many other places around the globe. As a leader or participant in several different groups he has had the chance to explore many of the facets of improvised music. On this album with his group Arrive, with Jason Adasiewicz on ...
Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter Evans: Electric Fruit
by Clifford Allen
Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter EvansElectric FruitThirsty Ear2011 Percussionist and improviser Weasel Walter often uses the term “face rip" to describe a particularly intense musical experience. In improvised music, you often don't get a “blood and guts" approach; free jazz, in many instances, has been ...
Nick Mazzarella Trio: Aviary
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Nick Mazzarella keeps things neat and succinct on this shortish (30 minute) introductory release. Although compact, this release is quite loquacious and, perhaps, a presage of great things to come.All six compositions were penned by Mazzarella, and harken back to the early 1960s, and the rise of Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. Mazzarella, ...
Two Cities
By Aram Shelton
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Two Cities; Big News; Western Promenade; VRC#9; In Cycles; I Am Here, You Are There; The Twenty-Seven; Wontkins; Easy.
These Times
By Aram Shelton
Label:
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. These Times (Shelton); 02. Rings (Jackson); 03. Dusk (Shelton); 04. An Interrupted
Stroll (Shelton); 05. Relief (Hatwich); 06. Rise and Set (Shelton).
Aram Shelton Quartet: These Times
by AAJ Italy Staff
Provengono dalla fervida scena di Chicago, filone Vandermark per intenderci, fanno parte dei più noti Fast Citizens e These Times è il loro album di debutto. Il leader è il sassofonista e clarinettista Aram Shelton che sceglie la poco consueta durata dei vecchi vinile, nemmeno trentotto minuti, per offrire un saggio delle proprie capacità di leader, ...
Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms
by Mark Corroto
Jason Adasiewicz is making the vibraphone a necessary ingredient for music making in this century. His mallets have been featured in recordings by Josh Berman, Jason Ajemian, Harris Eisenstadt, the Lucky 7s, and Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra.As a leader, his two recordings with Rolldown, the self-titled 2008 disc on 482 Music and Varmint ...
Jason Ajemian: Protest Heaven
by Mark Corroto
Bassist Jason Ajemian assembled a company of improvisers in December, 2006 at Heaven Gallery in Chicago as part of a music series he had been curating since 2002. The assemblage named Jason Ajemian's Daydream Full Lifestyles contained the infamous Chicago Underground players Rob Mazurek (trumpet), Chad Taylor (drums) and Jeff Parker (guitar), plus the well-traveled Tony ...
Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities
by Clifford Allen
The city of Chicago continues to find itself in a jazz renaissance well into the waxing years of the 21st century--a status that many of America's cities can't easily lay claim to. With the pedigrees of individual improvisers and composers like reedman Ken Vandermark and flutist Nicole Mitchell well established in the 1990s, a slightly younger ...
Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens: Two Cities
by AAJ Italy Staff
A tenere le redini dei Fast Citizens questa volta non c'è il fondatore Keefee Jackson, ma Aram Shelton, sassofonista originario della Florida che è approdato a Chicago negli anni Novanta, dopo aver studiato a Oakland. Come già in passato, i Fast Citizens immaginano il jazz come la mappa di una metropoli, con uno sguardo che comprende ...
