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Alterations: Voila! Enough
by Jay Collins
Alterations was a collective of four British improvisers, Steve Beresford, David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, sparked by the unpredictability of free improvisation and the mixture of seemingly incongruous elements. Formed in 1977 by Cusack, the group reveled in an aura of “productive friction,” with their interactions being both collective and combative. They thrived on ...
Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio: Pakistani Pomade
by AAJ Staff
British saxophonist John Butcher recently asked me why his music is considered jazz. Sure, it's based on improvisation. Is that enough of a qualification? There are some connections with the American avant-garde from the '60s, including atonal experiments by Cecil Taylor and expansions of the saxophone's sound by Coltrane and Ayler. But in the end, as ...
Atavistic: Reissues Par Excellence
by Jay Collins
The following four reviews look at 2002 releases presented by Atavistic Records' Unheard Music Series imprint, curated by Chicago-based producer, presenter and critic John Corbett. The imprint's stated goal is to reissue important, long out-of-print items that originally appeared on LP or never at all, lying really only within the reach of the most rabid (or ...
Vandermark 5: Airports for Light
by AAJ Staff
Fans of Chicago's incredibly prolific Ken Vandermark will no doubt appreciate the fresh angle his V5 group has placed on these nine tunes, each dedicated to a distinct artist from independent-minded filmmaker John Cassavetes to R&B hero Otis Redding. It feels something like the double set of Free Jazz Classics (officially released in 2002) in its ...
Fred Van Hove: The Complete Vogel Recordings
by Jay Collins
Belgian pianist Fred Van Hove is represented on this two-disc reissue of three “rare as hen’s teeth” albums recorded between 1972 and 1974 for the Vogel label. (Note: this material is so rare that the CD set, dubbed from LP, sounds a bit rough at times.) The collection consists of two solo piano performances ( Fred ...
Sun Ra Arkestra: Music From Tomorrow's World
by Jay Collins
All of the material on Music From Tomorrow's World, recorded by Sun Ra in Chicago in 1960, is brand new to wax. The first half of the disc, Live At The Wonder Inn , begins with three Ra compositions, the first two featuring the lovely flutes of Marshall Allen and George Hudson (uncredited) over a tranquil, ...
Manfred Schoof: European Echoes
by Jay Collins
The very first release on the German free jazz label FMP, recently reissued by Atavistic as part of its Unheard Music Series, was trumpeter Manfred Schoof’s European Echoes. In June of 1969, Schoff convened some of the leading lights of the emerging European free music scene for this radio project, heard here in its entirety. What ...
Peter Br: Balls
by Jay Collins
Following on the heels of European Echoes, Balls was the second release by the German FMP label; it remains one of the great documents of Peter Brötzmann's core late-sixties/early-seventies trio with pianist Fred Van Hove and drummer Han Bennink. At the time of the recording, the trio had been playing together for some time, including forming ...
Alexander Von Schlippenbach: The Living Music
by AAJ Staff
When this session was done, everyone needed a shower. There's no doubt about that. The Living Music lives and breathes at such a high level of intensity (and coherence) that it must have brought these seven European free improvisers to sheer exhaustion that long, productive afternoon almost exactly 24 years ago in Köln. But there's a ...
The Vandermark 5: Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2
by Frank Rubolino
When Ken Vandermark released Burn the Incline a few years ago, the first thousand copies included a second disc of The Vandermark 5 playing classic compositions by noted jazz luminaries. Subsequently, the same promotional ploy was used on Acoustic Machine, with the band presenting yet another batch of music by noted performers/composers. This double recording packages ...
