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Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...
L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'
by Chuck Koton
The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Exhale
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Cousin Mary, Come Sunday, Exhaust Suite, Night Train, 7/4 Thang,
Equinox, Just Friends, CJ, All Blues, Straighten Up and Fly Right, Exhale
Arthur Blythe: Exhale
by Rex Butters
Arthur Blythe continues his fruitful association with producer/drummer Cecil Brooks III on Exhale, his latest for the Savant label, also teaming up with longtime partner and tuba player Bob Stewart, plus John Hicks on piano. The eclectic playlist conveys the many facets of the musicians involved. Coltrane's "Cousin Mary" gets the party started in swing time ...
A Fireside Chat With Arthur Blythe
by AAJ Staff
At one time, Arthur Blythe was part of the Columbia machine (not unlike the Miramax machine, how else do you explain the Gangs of New York phenomenon). Then trends took precedent over music and a young Wynton over a middle-aged Blythe (so the urban legend goes). Blythe still managed to record a classic Lenox Avenue Breakdown. ...
Arthur Blythe: Focus
by Todd S. Jenkins
After what many considered a dry period in the early 1990s, Arthur Blythe gently began his return to alto prominence through exotic collaborations with cellist David Eyges and mallets player Gust William Tsilis. Focus presents one of his most unusual ensembles since the early '80s tuba/cello/guitar quintet. The sparse, foreign sound of this new quartet takes ...
Focus
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Opus (Blythe) - 6:52
2. Children's Song AKA That Old Man (Monk) - 3:18
3. C.C. Rider - 4:58
4. Once Again (Blythe) - 2:53
5. My Son Ra (Blythe) - 8:09
6. Hip Toe (Blythe) - 6:20
7. Night Song (Blythe/Tsilis) - 6:50
8. Bubbles (Blythe) - 3:16
9. Stuffy Turkey (Monk) - 5:00
10. Night Creeper (Blythe) - 5:19
11. In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington) - 7:58
12. Focus (Blythe) - 1:16
Arthur Blythe: Focus
by Jon Wagner
Arthur Blythe has been busy. He has a new recording, and last month completed a stint with his quartet at the Jazz Standard. Blythe is living in his hometown San Diego again, so NYC jazz fans jumped at the rare opportunity to see him play live. The band - Blythe on alto, John Hicks on piano, ...
