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Forgotten Series: Groundtruther - Latitude (2004)
By Mark Saleski Drummer Bobby Previte and bassist Charlie Hunter got together to record some completely improvised music. The twist was that they rotated in a different third player for each recording in the trilogy entitled “Latitude, Longitude, Attitude." The project was named Groundtruther. For the first installment, the third member was saxophonist Greg Osby. This ...
Jen Shyu and Theo Bleckmann: Breaking the Song Barrier
by Daniel Lehner
Before Robert Moog came out with the first synthesizer, before Adolphe Sax invented his famous reed instrument, before the trumpets sounded at Jericho, even before the world's ancient tribes tightened their animal skins to make drums, humanity's first instrument was the voice. Not that this is of particular consequence to Theo Bleckmann. “To me, that argument ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On Wingwalker, as on her other albums, soprano saxophonist/electronics manipulator Jane Ira Bloom concerns herself with all things mysterious and beautiful. On this album, however, she does considerably more. The saxophonist has connected with the seemingly magical elements that lead her to expand the imagination. She does so as she lets the voice of her straight ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker
by Greg Simmons
Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom is a first-class improviser and composer, and delivers a compelling case for herself on Wingwalker. Full of inventive original compositions, fine performances, and Bloom's rich, natural tone, this record is a standout. Although the soprano saxophone is less frequently heard, this record boldly demands its place at the table with its curved-bell ...
Taj Mahal, Raúl Malo and Marc Ribot
by Martin Longley
The Taj Mahal Trio The Allen Room February 25, 2011 If an audience is in the mood for psychoanalysis, they can always attend a Taj Mahal performance. Perhaps thrown by the intimate nature of an Allen Room appearance, this veteran bluesmaster was in an enquiring, self-conscious mood for this ...
David Binney: Graylen Epicenter
by C. Michael Bailey
Alto saxophonist and producer David Binney has become a ubiquitous presence in jazz in the last 20 years fronting his own bands while appearing with Donny McCaslin, Uri Caine, Joel Harrison, Edward Simon and Bobby Previte. He might be considered the logical next step in jazz saxophone after Wayne Shorter and Michael Brecker (Sonny Rollins remains ...
Microscopic Septet: Chance Meeting with the Future
by Gordon Marshall
The Microscopic Septet is all about swing, but swing in a sense extrapolated from the stale, dated pages of the past. Its take on the music of the '30s and '40s is too scholarly to fall off the map as retro, and too deeply felt to be dismissed as a dusty trove of museum pieces. The ...
Umbria Jazz Winter #18
by Joan A. Cararach
Umbria Jazz Winter #18 Orvieto, Italia 29 de diciembre 2010--2 de enero 2011En el jazz los sueños existen. Uno de ellos se llama Orvieto.Hermano menor del Umbria Jazz Festival que cada verano se celebra en Perugia, el Umbria Jazz Winter de Orvieto complementa de un modo sabio las programaciones de ambos festivales ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker
by Wilbert Sostre
There is not a dull or cliché moment on Jane Ira Bloom's fourteenth album, Wingwalker. Her sound has been described as futuristic, and there is certainly some of that on tracks like “Frontiers in Science" and “Live Sports." But, most of all, Bloom is a master composer and musician with a truly unique sound. All compositions ...
Umbria Jazz Winter #18 Days 3-5: December 31, 2010-January 2, 2011
by Sara Villa
Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 Umbria Jazz Winter #18 Orvieto, Italy December 29, 2010-January 2, 2011 The Alfredo Rodriguez Trio Discovered, produced and hailed by Quincy Jones, Alfredo Rodriguez chose to contradict any potential preconception linked with the highly slippery definition of Latin Jazz to which his Cuban ...
