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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 ...
Barry Guy / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton: Phases Of The Night
by Nic Jones
Any subversion of the piano trio tradition as manifested in the clinical virtuosity of a technocratic elite is always welcome, and it's present here in abundance. This is not however to suggest that this trio lacks technique, it's just that the music they produce is so free of the constraints of any overt tradition that the ...
Barry Guy/Mats Gustafsson/Raymond Strid: Tarfala
by Mark Corroto
I've read interviews with jazz musicians that have told of their first hearing John Coltrane's LP A Love Supreme (Impulse!,1964) and their seemingly inability to turn over the vinyl and play the second side, fearing that it would not compare to the first side. This listener had a similar experience listening to the first (and title) ...
