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Ben Allison: Peace Pipe
by C. Michael Bailey
This is a novelty jazz recording. That does not make it a bad recording. It simply makes it a marketing and listening challenge for the more conservative jazz listener. It is a tough sell to introduce obscure instruments into the mainstream of jazz much less those foreign to anglophilic ears. The kora is an established African ...
Ben Allison: Peace Pipe
by Jack Bowers
The kora, an African stringed instrument that sounds much like an Indian sitar or Persian santour, lends a tantalizing exotic flavor to bassist Ben Allison’s latest album, Peace Pipe, his fourth as leader for Palmetto Records. In the capable hands of Malian virtuoso Mamadou Diabate, the kora is more than a novelty but an integral part ...
Ben Allison: Peace Pipe
by Mark Corroto
Enough already with labeling bassist Ben Allison in the “talent-deserving-wider- recognition" classification. He has certainly arrived, or at least he has made it without all the young lion baggage. His carry on luggage includes establishing the Jazz Composers Collective ten years ago, a musician-run, non-profit dedicated to creative musicians new and inventive endeavors. Along ...
Strange City
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Moments Magical; Enrapture; Delights; Blue Shout; Strange City; Karna Kangi; The Happenings; Change Of Season; Some Wandering Bushmen; Shuffle Montgomery.
The World Of Intuition 1 (Music Of All Colours)
By Ben Allison
Label: Intuition Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Zakasnila E Lalitza / Lalitza Is Late; The Templars; Maria; Seeing Salinas Again; Bit O' Water; Smokey Embrace; Golden Penciled Paradise; Orphanage Des Éléphants; Dear EAR; Noches De Kerosene; Candy Color Questions; Helsinki Snow - East Net; First Thing This Morning; Fort Carré; Songs Of Struggle And Songs Of Love; Dancing Between The Worlds;
Ben Allison and Medicine Wheel: Riding the Nuclear Tiger
by Scott Andrews
Bassist Ben Allison founded the Jazz Composers Collective in New York City in 1992, and has been a centerpiece of that non-profit organization and the local jazz scene ever since. Allison leads his septet Medicine Wheel through nine shifty, modern jazz tunes on their third record Riding the Nuclear Tiger.The non-traditional instrumentation of Medicine ...
Ben Allison: Riding The Nuclear Tiger
by Mark Corroto
Like Charles Mingus, the bassist Allison has taken an aggressive approach to his music. Allison formed the Jazz Composers Collective, a musician-run, nonprofit with a mission to foster creative artists and new music. Not waiting for the jazz establishment to pick up on what he is laying down, he performs and writes for small ensembles and ...
Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel: Third Eye
by David Adler
The next time someone tells you that jazz is dead, hit them upside the skull with a copy of Third Eye. Bassist and bandleader Ben Allison is simply a towering talent, a jazz innovator, and he’s put to tape some of the grittiest, prettiest music I’ve ever heard.Instrumentation-wise, the ensemble is slightly offbeat: two ...
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