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Gato Libre: Kuro
by Michael P. Gladstone
This album is a bit unusual for trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and his group Gato Libre. While many of his other recordings are in a free jazz mode--notably as an accompanist for his wife, pianist Satoko Fujii--Kuro seems largely intent in showing a varying picture of Tamura's musical scope. Fujii forgoes her usual piano for accordion on ...
Rob Mosher's Storytime: The Tortoise
by Troy Collins
The Tortoise is the debut of Canadian-born, New York-based multi-instrumentalist Rob Mosher's ensemble Storytime. The album's twelve tracks encapsulate a wealth of influences, which span everything from jubilant early jazz styles and rich classical forms to harmonically intricate post-bop and edgy free improvisation. A far more nuanced hybrid than the early experiments of the Third Stream ...
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic
by Mark Corroto
And the call came out from the emperor Wynton Marsalis to his loyal henchman Stanley Crouch, “Bring me the head of Moppa Elliott, and deliver his dome on a ride cymbal!” In fact, the Lord of Lincoln Center demanded the heads of all the members of the band Mostly Other People Do The Killing or MOPDTK. ...
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic
by Troy Collins
A cheeky play on both Ornette Coleman's classic record This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1960) and the name of a small town in Elliott's home state of Pennsylvania, This Is Our Moosic is the third studio album from bassist Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do The Killing. Bolstered by a youthful visceral intensity, ...
Gene Bertoncini: Concerti
by Michael P. Gladstone
What could possibly be better than hearing guitarist extraordinaire Gene Bertoncini on Concerti? Simply, being ten feet away from the bandstand and viewing his quicksilver style of playing, astounding an appreciative audience. Bertoncini, over the course of several decades, has become an elder statesman plectrist, working in a number of settings--solo, duet, trio ...
The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic
by Laurel Gross
Things couldn’t be tougher for young musicians trying to make a name for themselves on the talent-rich-but-job-scarce New York scene. Or, perhaps in these dicey economic times they could. In any case, fans of straight-ahead may be glad that saxophonists Asher and Alex Stein have stuck it out. Siblings and even twins ...
October 2008
by AAJ Staff
Amir Ziv There are differing strategies for drummers to take when fronting a band. The one which Amir Ziv opts for is to place a huge kit smack in the middle and play loud and fast. At least, that was his approach on Sep. 13th at Abrons Arts Center. Ziv is a good enough ...
Bennet Paster & Gregory Ryan: Grupo Yanqui Rides Again
by Michael P. Gladstone
This album is a winning effort that presents urban Latin jazz, led by pianist Bennett Paster and bassist Gregory Ryan. Grupo Yanqui Rides Again is a solid interpretation of mostly original material proffered up by the leading duo. The album contains the combination of Latin ideas and the talent of saxophonist Chris Cheek ...
Jamie Baum Septet: Solace
by Michael P. Gladstone
New Yorker or, more specifically, Brooklyn flutist and composer Jamie Baum has again realized a most ambitious album that repeats the success of her previous Moving Forward, Standing Still (Omnitone, 2004), with largely the same personnel. After an intensive homage to Bela Bartok on that album, Baum spends even more time here with the work of ...
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs for Sam
by Troy Collins
Proverbs for Sam is dedicated to the late saxophonist Sam Furnace, a charter member of double reed master Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble. The majority of the album is culled from the 2001 Vision Festival in New York, while the majestic finale is drawn from the same 2001 Burlington, Vermont concert documented on Seasoning of the Greens ...
