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The Donny McCaslin Trio at the Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Donny McCaslin Trio at The Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkSeptember 30, 2008 Saxophonist Donny McCaslin took the stage this night with his trio, bassist Ricky Rodriguez and drummer Ted Poor, and proceeded to blow up a mighty storm of great music in a format that ...
Conference Call: Poetry In Motion
by Budd Kopman
The creation of a work of art is an act of the mind that controls and shapes the medium's components in order to project the artist's sense of life and elicit a reaction from the consumer. In its highest forms, jazz might sound instinctive, but the reality is that years of practice have pushed ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa / Kadri Gopalnath: Kinsmen
by Budd Kopman
Kinsmen is the physical actualization of a long path that started with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's desire to create a music that is a hybrid (not a fusion) of American jazz and classical Indian Carnatic music. Improvisation is central to both aesthetics with differing emphases, embodied primarily in the playing of Mahanthappa and alto saxophonist Kadri ...
Bad Touch: Like A Magic Kiss
by Budd Kopman
The thoroughly modern, mysterious, beautiful, and yet tough Like A Magic Kiss is the debut of Bad Touch; a collective made up of players who, though still young, have each established themselves as an original with a unique voice. Originally started by saxophonist Loren Stillman, organist Gary Versace, guitarist Nate Radley and drummer Ted Poor, the ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Bacchus
by Budd Kopman
The jazz of today is the most vibrant ever. It has shaken off the straitjacket of “jazz as style," replacing it with the concept of “jazz as an attitude or aesthetic." Paradoxically, the music produced by the players embracing this concept is called avant-garde; primarily because it cannot be immediately pigeonholed and is inherently challenging. In ...
The John Abercrombie Quartet at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The John Abercrombie QuartetBirdlandNew York City, New YorkThursday, September 4, 2008 This gig was in the second night of a four-night stand for the quartet consisting of guitarist John Abercrombie, violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron. The group absolutely cooked during the early set before a ...
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do Quartet: Heat Wave
by Budd Kopman
As her fiftieth birthday nears, pianist Satoko Fujii continues to release recordings at a furious pace. However, despite always extending her compositional and improvisational language, her musical personality remains recognizable by its unique mixture of melody, rhythm, freedom and structure. An amazing release, Heat Wave presents a new band named the Ma-Do Quartet, ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando
by Budd Kopman
The ECM label has championed the jazz aesthetic, quite audibly European rather than American, in differing proportions from release to release. Indeed, although ECM's New Series is ostensibly dedicated to new classical music, its edges leak over into jazz. For forty years and over one thousand albums, ECM has led the way towards the creation of ...
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico: Songs Of An Other
by Budd Kopman
The mesmerizing Songs Of An Other is the second ECM studio recording for vocalist Savina Yannatou and the instrumental group Pimavera en Salonico. Their first ECM release, Terra Nostra (2003), was live and not actually recorded, but licensed by ECM, which led to their first studio ECM recording, Sumiglia (2005).Pimavera en Salonico has been ...
Carla Bley Big Band: Appearing Nightly
by Budd Kopman
Appearing Nightly conflates four of the most delightful things in the world--being in a jazz club with white tablecloths and a martini listening to live music played but a few feet away, a big band cooking on stage, the music being played harkening back to jazz of the 1950s, and finally that music refracted through the ...
