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Quarter Past: Boom-Pah
by Budd Kopman
The Norwegian band Quarter Past has returned after a two year hiatus from Smash No Flash (Jejune Production, 2005) with Boom-Pah and they have not been standing still. Simply put, the band has found the right balance between raw energy with dense waves of sound from Dag Stiberg's distinctive buzz-saw alto saxophone sound, ...
Ron Thomas: 17 Solo Piano Improvisations
by Budd Kopman
Music is the language of sound, of vibrations; and hence, at a basic level, of physics. The history of Western music is an effort to understand and control how these vibrations interact and relate to each other, always with an ear towards how they affect the listener. Music's emotional affect on us is its greatest mystery. ...
Ron Thomas: Wings of the Morning
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Ron Thomas has led an extremely interesting life, musically and otherwise, and it is distilled into the lovely and intense set of pieces on Wings of the Morning, originally recorded in 1978, and now reissued on CD. Training from a young age to be a concert pianist, Thomas eventually realized that the ...
Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Tobifudo
by Budd Kopman
"Tobifudo" means “Flying God" or “Flying Deity" in Japanese and the Shoboin Temple in Japan is dedicated to the Flying God. It is also the name of a group in which pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura were members, and finally, the name of the first album in their large discography. As ...
Ricardo Gallo: Urdimbres Y Maranas
by Budd Kopman
Urdimbres Y Maranas (literally, fabric and tangles) is the second release by the Colombian pianist Ricardo Gallo and his quartet, the first being Los Cerros Testigos (Chonta, 2006). The aim of their music is the same: to blend traditional Colombian music, especially its rhythms, with the freedom of the American jazz aesthetic. The ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by Budd Kopman
The enigmatically beautiful Sideways is the second ECM release from Norwegian/American (not Norwegian-American) guitarist and composer Jacob Young, coming four years after Evening Falls (ECM, 2004). While Evening Falls might have been a prime example of the ECM sound/aesthetic, Sideways ups the ante, demonstrating Young's very strong control over the elements of his ...
Olivier Ker Ourio: Oversea
by Budd Kopman
That the music on the delightful and immediately ingratiating album Oversea would be termed “world music" is belied by the globe on the cover and the inside liner. It is centered on Reunion Island, which is in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. The island is a French territory, and where chromatic harmonica player Olivier Ker ...
Peter Erskine: Worth The Wait & Standards
by Budd Kopman
Drummer Peter Erskine broke into the music business in 1972 with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and has not stopped for breath since. He recorded five albums in his first four years, starting in 1978 with Weather Report, and both led and played on a large number of albums for the ECM label. As one can see ...
Meredith Monk: impermanence
by Budd Kopman
impermanence is the ninth recording by Meredith Monk for ECM, six years removed from her previous recording, mercy (ECM, 2002). An interdisciplinary artist whose works combine vocals (with extended techniques that take it beyond singing), instrumental composition, dance and video, Monk's arrangements for CD of the original form of impermanence follow the strategy she used on ...
Marc Copland / Gary Peacock / Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Marc Copland/Gary Peacock/Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYCBirdlandNew York City, New YorkMarch 20, 2008 However much we might wish that jazz, or indeed any art, be devoid of any relationship to economics, the the numerous extra-musical things that go into making a record, from promoting it to setting up a gig, ...
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