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Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
by Clifford Allen
It's been a decade since the last bounty of Ornette recordings. 1995-96 saw releases from his free-funk mélange Prime Time; a robust quartet with pianist Geri Allen and bassist Charnett Moffett; and duets with pianist Joachim Kühn, a German free music architect. Indeed, the past three decades have seen an inordinate amount of change for Coleman's ...
October 2006
by AAJ Staff
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the New School's innovative jazz program, which boasts alumni on the order of Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings and Robert Glasper. To kick off the new academic season, guitarist Rory Stuart held a faculty concert in the school's intimate performance space (Sep. 5th), recruiting tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, pianist Francesca ...
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood: Out Louder
by Doug Collette
During the early 1990s, Medeski, Martin & Wood conjured up a heady, groove-oriented style that coincided with the increasingly rhythm-oriented approach John Scofield was developing. A year before the trio made the leap to Blue Note, those parallel paths intersected in 1998: MMW accompanied the guitarist in the studio on A Go Go (Verve), and they ...
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood: Out Louder
by John Kelman
It's been nearly a decade since John Scofield hooked up with jam band favorites Medeski, Martin and Wood for A Go Go (Verve, 1998), an album that singlehandedly placed the guitarist on the radar of a younger and enthusiastic demographic. Given that Scofield wrote all the material, A Go Go was unequivocally his project. On the ...
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood: Out Louder
by Troy Collins
A far cry from this quartet's previous encounter, Out Louder is a summit meeting for all four players. Where 1998's A Go Go (Verve) found the trio performing as guitarist John Scofield's backing band, here the working relationship is far more collaborative. The added grit and gristle, along with the more extreme outside elements, demonstrate Medeski ...
Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
by Dan McClenaghan
In the beginning of free jazz, there was Ornette Coleman. Actually, the alto saxophonist was the beginning of free jazz. His 1959 Atlantic recording The Shape of Jazz to Come followed on the heels of a couple of innovative smaller label outings that didn't make a splash at the time. Many musicians have followed Coleman down ...
The Allmans and The Mule: Brothers of the Road
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule Meadowbrook Farms Gilford NH August 25th 2006 Tweeter Center Mansfield MA August 26th 2006 Given the fundamental connections between The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule, it was nothing less than inevitable that the two bands ...
Gov't Mule: High and Mighty
by Doug Collette
With their new album High & Mighty, Gov't Mule has once again given the lie to the myth that a hard-rockin' band can't possess a finely tuned intellect. Or that a musical group with real strength is too muscle-bound to display sufficient finesse to improvise with urgency and purpose. The sound of High & Mighty hits ...
Gov't Mule in Boston: High and Mighty Indeed
by Doug Collette
Gov't Mule Bank of America Pavilion Boston, Mass June 2nd 2006 God bless the Mule! As the quartet ambled onstage, heavy wind and rain pelted the huge tent at the Bank of America Pavilion, assaulting those audience members close to the edge of the seated area. Warren Haynes and ...
Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing
by Donald Elfman
Bobby Previte's musical evolution has been most fascinating. The records he's made for a variety of labels show an astonishing scope but, amazingly, there has never really been a disconnect, even now playing “electronic" drums or instrumental rock music. Color and expression have always been paramount in Previte's output and his palette has always been directed ...
