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Self Portrait
By Jon Jang
Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Two Flowers on a Stem; The Butterfly Dream; All I Want; Two Flowers Behind a Mist; Amazing Grace; Come
Sunday; Chinese Sorrow Song for Paul Robeson; The Procession/Woman Shaman of Alishan; Two Flowers on a
Stem (reprise); My Little One from Faraway; You'll Never Walk Alone.
Max Roach/Jon Jang/Jiebing Chen: Beijing Trio
by Mark Corroto
Let me suggest a new name for this group. How about the American-Jing Trio? This combination of African-American Max Roach with Chinese-American Jon Jang and Jiebing Chen of China makes an improvisational music, which can be pinned, straight to a map of American music. The recording, a combination of duos and trios of Roach’s drums, Jang’s ...
Beijing Trio: Beijing Trio
by Glenn Astarita
The USA based “Beijing Trio” plan to embark on a tour of China sometime in 2000 as they actively tour here in the States. With their inaugural release on “Asian Improv Records, the trio featuring legendary drummer Max Roach, pianist/composer Jon Jang and “ehru” (Chinese violin) expert Jiebing Chen offer the listener something noticeably fresh, magnetically ...
Otani Yasuhira and Aoki Tatsu: Dial
by Mark Corroto
There are moments during the listening experience of Mr. Otani and Mr. Aoki’s disc that I’m not sure what is captured on disc and what is contributed from my environment. While listening to the opening track, a minimalist bass solo mixed with a futurists walk through an urban sprawl, I heard birds chirping. But, ah, they ...
Fred Anderson: Volume One
by Mark Corroto
Approaching 70, saxophonist Fred Anderson is beginning to receive recognition beyond his beloved Chicago. A founding member of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) Anderson walks a comfortable line between soul and free jazz. This live disc recorded at Chicago’s Velvet Lounge has to be considered for many a fan’s top ten discs of ...
William Roper, Francis Wong & Elliot Humberto Kavee: The Lament Of Absalom
by Glenn Astarita
The tuba is an often-misunderstood instrument, especially within jazz circles. However, skilled artists such as William Roper and Howard Johnson to cite but a few, have made great strides incorporating this bulky and almost comical looking instrument into the jazz forefront. Roper has made quite a name for himself performing or recording with Yusef Lateef, Anthony ...
Jon Jang: Self Portrait
by AAJ Staff
With this solo piano self portrait as a reference point, Jang reveals himself to be a sentimental improvisor with ears open to anything from gospel and folk to Chinese opera. It's Jang's own mixture, unlike anybody else's. The integrative jazz pianist tools through eleven tunes on Self Portrait, including seven original compositions with Chinese-American folk flair. ...
Architextures
By Vijay Iyer
Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Prelude: Paradise Lost,
Meeting-of-Rivers,
Microchips and Bullock Carts,
Charms,
Sadhu,
Three Peas,
Trident,
Taste the Sea,
Los Ojos,
Utopia of the Tired Man,
Journey Over Sands,
Postlude: Prayer
