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Gebhard Ullmann: Essencia
by Budd Kopman
Gebhard Ullmann, a musical gypsy, has been active in both Berlin and New York for twenty years now. His musical life has been documented on a series of projects, recorded both live and in the studio, where he has played virtually all of the reeds and quite a few flutes. Essencia is another entry in his ...
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Double Blues Crossing
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pensato nel 2000, scritto nel 2002, messo in produzione nel 2003, riverificato nel 2004, stampato nel 2005 e finalmente dalle parti delle nostre distribuzioni nel 2006. Double Blues Crossing propone un entusiasmante quintetto diretto dal batterista statunitense Gerry Hemingway e ricco degli aiuti del clarinettista berlinese Franck Gratkowski, del trombonista Wolter Wierbos, del violoncello di Amit ...
Carl Maguire: Floriculture
by Donald Elfman
Here's a downtown jazz quartet that knows the patterns and traditions of the mainstream but has used it to create something quite different. Maguire's compositions are complicated and dense, but not inaccessible. Reflecting grooves, minimalism and a strong sense of melody, this music demands repeated listenings, if only due to the fact that the listener can't ...
Michael Bates: A Fine Balance
by Troy Collins
The shadow of Dave Douglas hovers over bassist Michael Bates' debut recording. However, Douglas' influence is understandable, because both are faculty members at the Banff Center of the Arts. Despite the noticeable stylistic overlap, Bates contributes a strong program of originals that stretch beyond academic imitation. Bates draws influence from a fairly novel place: ...
Michael Bates' Outside Sources: A Fine Balance
by Jerry D'Souza
Michael Bates says that as a jazz musician, he takes a punk attitude to things. If anything, that is a refreshing attitude. When it comes down to music, he achieves a fine balance. He has all the right ingredients: a jazz sensibility, an open approach to classical music, a tingly edginess, and a sense of adventure. ...
Michael Bates: A Fine Balance
by C. Michael Bailey
Call me biased, but jazz has the distinction of giving us some pretty good recordings on the whole. The downside to that is an ultimate dilution of the music for public consumption. What will one more performance of “'Round Midnight do for us? Michael Bates' A Fine Balance flies in the face of this product dilution. ...
Carl Maguire: Floriculture
by Budd Kopman
Floriculture is clearly a jazz record and does not seem to inhabit Between the Lines' usual niche at the point of collision between modern classical composition and jazz improvisation, perhaps because of the standard jazz band instrumentation. The first delicate notes of Carl Maguire's piano in “Egocentric" repeat odd phrases that move in ...
Carl Maguire: Floriculture
by Nic Jones
The fact that this quartet is apparently a working band is abundantly obvious. The program of music they perform comes entirely from the pen of Maguire, and such is the organic nature of the band that the impression is of music written with these particular musicians in mind, as opposed to a bassist, an alto saxophonist, ...
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Double Blues Crossing
by John Eyles
If Gerry Hemingway's other 2005 release, The Whimbler--with his current quartet--presented a surprisingly straight-ahead facet of his music, this quintet album is far more intriguing and, well, strange. Opening to the (sampled) sounds of old-time fiddle-driven folk music, the seven-part title suite sounds like the soundtrack to some yet-to-be-made movie. In his sleeve notes, Hemingway even ...
The Move
By Nils Wogram
Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2005
Track listing: Fall; Lay Low; The Move; Ballooning; Itapo; Herbie and Pierre; Simple Sentiment.
