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Satoki Fujii and Natsuki Tamura
by Kurt Gottschalk
Satoko Fujii - along with William Parker and Barry Guy - is one of the few pushing the big band into the future and for her part four times over with standing orchestras in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and New York. In addition, she works in duo with Tatsuya Yoshida, Paul Bley and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki ...
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness at Joe's Pub in NYC
by Elliott Simon
Ten years ago, clarinetist David Krakauer recorded Klezmer Madness!, the first release for John Zorn's groundbreaking Tzadik: Radical Jewish Culture Series. Since that time, Krakauer has remained true to his soul while continuing to expand the definitional boundaries of his music. A stylist who combines impeccable technique and prodigious chops with distinctive fingerings, overblows and circular ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is the second outstanding treatment of Gershwin's famed folk opera, Porgy & Bess, within the past eight months. On the other recent version, Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra faithfully delivered the 1959 Gil Evans-Miles Davis arrangement with Clark Terry providing superlative trumpet interpretation. Mark Masters, who has spent the past few seasons artfully interpreting the ...
Bill Cole & William Parker: Two Masters: Live at the Prism
by Jerry D'Souza
Over the years William Parker and Bill Cole have taken improvisation to new plateaus, through both individual projects and Cole's Untempered Ensemble, of which Parker is a member. This is their first full recording as a duo. They play a host of instruments from around the world, and given their credentials, it is not surprising that ...
James Finn Trio: Plaza De Toros
by Dan McClenaghan
Listening to Plaza De Toros, you wonder what James Finn would have done in life if the saxophone hadn't been invented. The intrument seems made for him--full of passion and rage and tenderness, beauty and anguish, growls and gruff whispers and torrid wails... You just get the feeling the man's soul is coming out of his ...
Danilo Perez Trio: Live at the Jazz Showcase
by John Kelman
Watching pianist Danilo Perez's career unfold has been an experience in shared exploration. He's never forgetten his Panamanian heritage, but along with pianists Edward Simon and Luis Perdomo, Perez has reflected a new dimension--a new wave of artists from Latin cultures who incorporate traditional rhythms and melodic ideas into more modern contexts that include complicated meters, ...
Trio East: Stop-Start
by Jerry D'Souza
In a lineup with trumpet, bass, and drums, the man with the horn is left, right, and center. He is the one who has to lead and carry the trio, though the others play their part in fashioning and completing their mission. Clay Jenkins succeeds in doing this, though there are occasions when the arrangements and ...
Cosmosamatics: Reeds & Birds / Three
by Jeff Stockton
In the last couple of years Sonny Simmons has gone from hard-to-find to all-over-the-place. Burning Spirits was reissued by Fantasy, his early ESP and Arhoolie albums are available on iTunes, and he's managed to sustain steady output from the Cosmosamatics, the working group he co-leads with Michael Marcus. Simmons is a link in the saxophone chain ...
Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson: Low Standards
by Jerry D'Souza
Welcome to Low Standards. That comment was not meant to be quizzical. It just goes to show that Steve Shapiro and Pat Bergeson have a sense of humour that blessed them when coming up with a name for their record. That is the only part of the package that is “low", the music travels a well-described ...
Jim Hall: Magic Meeting
by Jerry D'Souza
This is the first time that Jim Hall, Scott Colley, and Lewis Nash have played together, but their Magic Meeting has a sheer magnetism that draws them into an orbit that spins around some compelling musicianship. Time has not effaced the spell that Hall can conjure on the guitar, and he does his magic once again. ...
