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Geoff Farina / Luther Gray / Nate McBride: Out Trios, Volume 4: Almanac
by Karl A.D. Evangelista
There's a tremendous amount of ambivalence about the Atavistic label--all at once a paragon of progressivism, championing a rich legacy of forward-thinking free music, and among the foremost agents in the historicizing of free jazz. The atavism here suggests much more than an earlier, more primal passion; there is, more crucially, the sting of old processes ...
Bridge 61: Journal
by Chris May
Ken Vandermark plays rather like William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac wrote in the heat of their automatic writing experiments. Each writer would consume industrial quantities of recreational drugs--mainly speed and psilocybin, a Jedi-only combination with the kick of mule--sit down at a typewriter, and become the conduit for a best-selling masterpiece which would write itself, allowing ...
Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes
by Karl A.D. Evangelista
Derek Bailey, the doyen of free improvisation, took note of the surprising survival tactics of the younger generation of improvisers--"the kind of manoeuvers sometimes found necessary to safely negotiate the mire thrown up in culturally inclement times, sometimes compromise, sometimes regression. Much has changed since Bailey wrote Improvisation (Da Capo, 1980), from which the foregoing quote ...
Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes
by Troy Collins
Formed to accompany the short-film documentary Dutch Harbor in 1996, the Boxhead Ensemble has since grown beyond its modest origins. In addition to its leader, guitarist Michael Krassner, the group has featured a diverse cast in various incarnations over the past decade: Ken Vandermark, Jeff Parker, Will Oldham, Edith Frost and members of Wilco and the ...
Geoff Farina / Luther Gray / Nate McBride: Out Trios Volume Four: Almanac
by Troy Collins
Guitarist Geoff Farina, founder of the seminal 1990s indie rock band Karate, has been slowly but surely woodshedding his collegiate jazz chops. Karate was a far more progressive, improvisational ensemble than its fellow emo brethren, and Farina's augmented jazz chording foreshadowed greater things to come. His simultaneous stint in the folksy Secret Stars provided him with ...
Sound In Action Trio: Gate
by Troy Collins
Gate is the second release by the Sound In Action Trio, yet another of multi-instrumentalist and composer Ken Vandermark's many ensembles. Unique among his many intriguing groups, the lineup consists solely of Vandermark and two drummers, each from a very different background. Tim Daisy, the resident drummer in the Vandermark 5, shares duties with drummer Frank ...
Chris Brokaw: Red Cities
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il versatile Chris Brokaw, da più di 15 anni sulla scena musicale, muove i primi passi nel rock indie come batterista del gruppo newyorkese Codein guidandone i caratteristici tempi lenti, poi alla chitarra con i più caldi Come di Boston insieme a Thalia Zedec. Da allora contiamo una serie di importanti collaborazioni nello scenario del Rock ...
The Vandermark 5: Free Jazz Classics Vols. 3 & 4
by AAJ Italy Staff
Terzo e quarto volume della serie Free Jazz Classics, originariamente abbinati come “bonus disc" alle prime copie degli ultimi due dischi in studio dei Vandermark 5 con ancora il trombonista Jeb Bishop in formazione, qui riuniti in un doppio come fu per i loro fratelli maggiori, questi “percorsi" di rilettura del repertorio di Sonny Rollins e ...
Bridge 61: Journal
by Troy Collins
Windy City-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and leader Ken Vandermark has long split his time between leadership duties and membership in collective ensembles. Bridge 61 is his newest collaborational foray. Sharing composing duties with his fellow improvisers in this democratic unit, Vandermark enables greater exposure for the writing talents of his bandmates by virtue of his relatively popular ...
The Vandermark 5: Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4
by Troy Collins
In his liner notes, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ken Vandermark proclaims that his time covering jazz standard repertoire has passed: “The fourth volume of Free Jazz Classics will likely be the last. Though I have learned a great deal by rearranging some of my favorite composers' work ... it's time to leave that process behind and focus ...
