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Eri Yamamoto: Duologue
by John Sharpe
For her first disc as a leader away from her trio, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto has chosen to work in duo with four different partners: master bassist William Parker, veteran downtown New York saxophonist Daniel Carter and percussionists Hamid Drake and Federico Ughi. Classically trained, Yamamoto dedicated her life to jazz after a revelatory experience hearing ...
Eri Yamamoto: Duologue
by Jeff Stockton
On vacation from Japan in New York City in 1995, pianist Eri Yamamoto saw a performance by the Tommy Flanagan trio that changed the course of her life. She decided to trade the solitude of the classical music stage and the loneliness of the long distance recitalist for the camaraderie and interaction she hoped to find ...
Eri Yamamoto: Duologue
by Lyn Horton
Historically in jazz, pianos have been oriented towards group ensembles. The prevalence of modern jazz and improvised music has not altered these configurations, but the musicians have challenged the instrumental relationships within. To extend their voice, pianists need to use their creative insight to embrace the appropriate instrumental combinations in order to shape the sound that ...
Eri Yamamoto: Duologue
by Nic Jones
It's clear from note one here that Eri Yamamoto is staking out her own pianistic territory and it's a privilege to be able to monitor her progress on her artistic journey. Her take on free and near free territories is entirely her own, but what pervades this whole program is a deeply reflective, quasi-spiritual strain of ...
Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur
by Nic Jones
If there's an opposite of aging that isn't growing ever youthful then Bill Dixon's got it. It comes here in music of infinite color, played by an ensemble entirely empathetic with his aims and intentions yet still capable of putting some personal stamp on it. As such it gets to grips, in no uncertain terms, with ...
Eri Yamamoto: Duologue
by Mark Corroto
Let's agree that pianist Eri Yamamoto's days of being described as a talent deserving wider recognition are now over. With Duologue, she now takes her rightful place as a headliner and leader. This release for AUM Fidelity is one of two discs coming in 2008. Redwoods, a trio disc, will follow this ...
Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk
by John Sharpe
One-off assemblages can be hit or miss affairs, but so powerful was saxophonist Rob Brown's ensemble at the 2006 Vision Festival that it was deemed essential that they were brought into the studio. With his carefully controlled use of harmonics and split tones, allied to a quicksilver inventiveness, Brown is one of the ...
Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite
by Lyn Horton
Any relationship to ethnicity or artistry that an individual advocates predisposes how that individual might be viewed from the outside, yet strength of self-perception cancels out the superficiality of any invisibly barbed labeling. Music becomes a means to translate self-perception into a language which not only transcends social divides but also can relate the story of ...
Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
Esercizi di egittologia sonora militante. Impossibile seguire l'astronave di Sun Ra fino alle mitiche fonti del Nilo, lassù nelle galassie, ma non c'è dubbio che Roy Campbell, da anni alla testa del Pyramid Trio, sia tra i musicisti più accreditati a rendere omaggio alla fascinazione di quella antica civiltà. Commissionata da Arts for Art e registrata ...
Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk
by Lyn Horton
The function of liner notes is to bring the listener closer to the music. They need not be very broad in scope. Some of the most straightforward liner notes are often the most useful. For they do not impose layers of unnecessary skin to peel away in order to reach their point. After all, the music ...
