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Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist
by Andrey Henkin
In 2007, just in time for bassist Barry Guy's 60th birthday, Intakt Records released Portrait, equal parts compilation, introduction, overview and mere glimpse into the musical world of this instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. There are tracks from several editions of Guy's colossal London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO), pieces done with longstanding collaborators like Evan Parker and ...
Taylor Ho Bynum and Harris Eisenstadt in London: A Second Anglo/American Convergence
by John Sharpe
Convergence Quartet The Vortex London, U.K. April 27, 2009 Last sighted on these shores in the autumn of 2006, the success of the Convergence Quartet 's inaugural meeting has now borne the fruit of a further tour for cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Harris Eisenstadt, and the up-and-coming English pairing ...
Derek Bailey and Evan Parker: Incus reissues
by John Eyles
The happy coincidence of solo recordings by guitarist Derek Bailey and saxophonist Evan Parker being reissued in quick succession provides a convenient opportunity to reflect on the association of two of the most influential improvisers of their generation. Bailey and Parker first played together in March 1967, recording as part of a Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) ...
Bob Downes Open Music: Crossing Borders
by Nic Jones
Here's another of Reel's exercises in twentieth century tape archaeology. Like earlier efforts, it has the practical effect of sealing another hole in the documented fabric of British jazz and improvised music from the last four decades of that century. It's highly worthwhile too, this labor of love, as on this occasion it yields a program ...
Perspectives 2009
by Andrey Henkin
Perspectives 2009 Vasteras, Sweden March 5th-7th, 2009 For those who have not attended, or perhaps not even heard of, the Perspectives International Festival for Creative Music, held in Våsteras, 90 minutes northwest of Stockholm, there are two comparable equivalents. In some ways, Perspectives is similar to the Vision Festival--the names ...
Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...
Marilyn Crispell: Uncompromising Power and Grace
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Her notes crash like waves at sea on a stormy winter's night; they gently float and slowly fall like early morning mist; yet it's the silence--the silence between the notes--which provides the haunting poetic beauty that is the music of pianist Marilyn Crispell.Lloyd Peterson: Is there a decrease in listeners for creative music today?
Phases Of The Night
By Barry Guy
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Phases Of The Night; Insomnie; The Invisible Being Embraced; With My Shadow.
London Jazz Festival 2008
by Frederick Bernas
London Jazz Festival 2008 London, England Nov. 14-23, 2008 Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mark SandersThe VortexNovember 14 In a meticulously unplanned concert, the music often seemed like a sonic battle between these three renowned improvisers. Sporting a black fitted tee and a hairstyle that could be straight from the ...
