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William Parker: I Plan To Stay A Believer
by John Sharpe
From the first few bars of the title cut opening “I Plan To Stay A Believer," the riffing horns, infectiously funky beat and expressive soulful singing of Leena Conquest quickly establishes` this as one of bassist/composer William Parker's most accessible projects. This set has been a long time coming. The idea of a tribute to legendary ...
William Parker Organ Quartet: Uncle Joe's Spirit House
by Troy Collins
Renowned in avant-garde jazz circles for his steadfast leadership, bassist, composer and bandleader William Parker's all-encompassing artistry has long been influenced by a variety of sources, both abstract and concrete. Though mysticism and spirituality play a hand in his expansive aesthetic, so do earthly concerns like social justice and family. Uncle Joe's Spirit House, the debut ...
William Parker: I Plan To Stay A Believer
by Nic Jones
On the surface of it there might not seem to be much continuity between the music of William Parker's and Curtis Mayfield, but scratch away at it and the overlap is revealed. On a social level both men were/are activists, conscious of rights human as well as merely social and, on the basis of the evidence ...
David S. Ware: Onecept
by Nic Jones
In the press release for Onecept, David S. Ware makes much of the concept of spontaneous form. This is worth mentioning because the degree of continuity between notion and outcome is exceptional. Ware's work--and, indeed, his musical life, perhaps--is now at a stage where the reedman doesn't have to be combustible all the time, and it ...
Little Women: Throat
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con una copertina molto à la ESP, l'etichetta di Giuseppi Logan e Patty Waters (ma anche di Ornette, Ayler, Sun Ra, e tanti altri), ecco un album che, come appunto quel glorioso modello, ha l'invidiabile pregio di non (voler) essere in alcun modo ammiccante, rassicurante, omologato; e invece, ruvido, magmatico, torvo, rovente, tra schizofrenia e turgore, ...
David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume 1)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Alla vigilia dei sessant'anni, compiuti lo scorso 7 novembre, e a dodici pressoché esatti dal precedente Live in the Netherlands (26 ottobre 1997 quello, 15 ottobre 2009 questo) edito dalla nostra Splasc(H), Ware si (ci) regala un nuovo live in totale solitudine (fra l'altro tirato in soli 1500 esemplari). E il regalo è quanto mai gradito, ...
Little Women: Throat
by Nic Jones
Little Women spans the divide between the primitive and the sophisticated in a manner that's true of so few. For this, its second release, it's useful to offer pointers such as Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann (whose “Machine Gun" is particularly pertinent in terms of sonic assault), but they serve merely to place what this quartet ...
Little Women: Throat
by John Sharpe
Brooklyn-based quartet, Little Women, blasts out of the starting gate with its full length debut on the Aum Fidelity imprint, following up its 2008 EP. The best known of the group's constituent parts to jazz fans is alto saxophonist Darius Jones, whose Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing), also on Aum Fidelity, was one of ...
David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One)
by Chris May
Saturnian celebrates saxophonist David S. Ware's return to health--and public performance--after near fatal kidney failure. Released in a limited edition, and subtitled Solo Saxophones Volume 1, it was recorded live at the Abrons Arts Center, NYC in October 2009, towards the end of a year in which Ware's life had hung in the balance and many ...
David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One)
by Lyn Horton
In a 2003 interview, reed player David S. Ware talked about “a revelation which changed his musical life." It occurred while performing in Boston, where he suddenly could “witness" himself playing the music. When that happened, he cultivated the epiphany as meaning that he, alone, is the channel for the music which comes out of his ...
