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Donny McCaslin at The Jazz Standard
by Budd Kopman
Donny McCaslin at the Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York, NYTuesday, September 18, 2007 There has always existed in jazz a tension between the unprepared or spontaneous and the written or the composed. The recording process is part of this tension and crystallizes the immediate present moment for posterity, paradoxically helping ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Per Dee Doo
by Budd Kopman
Musicians are like all of us, in that who they are now is the sum total of their life experience up to that point. For a musician like multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann, who has worked to create his own musical world, the past is still part of him and hence an album like Per-Dee-Doo is the understandable ...
Manu Katche: Playground
by Budd Kopman
Part of what makes jazz so fascinating is its stylistic breadth. Indeed, the word jazz is almost synonymous with “that-which-shall-not-be-defined," but labels are a shorthand that can help relate a given release's main characteristics. Playground, drummer Manu Katché's second release as a leader after Neighbourhood (ECM, 2005), resists the application of a label, but “ECM Smooth ...
Champian Fulton: Champian
by Budd Kopman
Anyone who wants to know what old-time swing and big band music is all about--or, for that matter, longs to revisit it--must check out Champian, which features vocalist Champian Fulton with David Berger & The Sultans of Swing. Furthermore, anyone who wants a definition of adult sensuality and sexiness, as relayed in the words of a ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Ullmann - Rava - Willers - Lillich - Schauble
by Budd Kopman
On the very fine Ullmann-Rava-Willers-Lillich-Schäuble, reedman Gebhard Ullmann combines his longstanding trio (guitarist Andreas Willers and drummer Nikolas Schäuble) with bassist Martin Lillich and renowned trumpeter Enrico Rava. By the time of this recording, Rava was fifty years old and had been recording for more than twenty years. Despite being a stylistic chameleon, ...
Gebhard Ullmann: No Age
by Budd Kopman
The musical world that Gebhard Ullmann's No Age inhabits is admittedly quite different from Out To Lunch (Nabel, 1985). While the vibe resides distinctly within what would be called “New Age," the music, playing and production are so well done, and with so much extra spice, that it lands outside that genre and is indeed “No ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Out To Lunch
by Budd Kopman
The intense and quite strong Out To Lunch is just about the earliest recording available on which multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann is the leader, with his discography listing the LP, Playful (Biber, 1985), a duo with guitarist Andreas Willers. That this release almost shares its title with the acclaimed Eric Dolphy album Out To ...
Mats Eilertsen: Short Stories
by Budd Kopman
Short Stories, with fourteen tracks totaling less than forty minutes, is a disc of all solos (except for the last track) that manages to be intense and calming at the same time. Most current jazz releases have an overriding theme, or at least an attitude--compositional or otherwise--that binds the tracks together. That the motives of bassist ...
Sinnika Langeland: Starflowers
by Budd Kopman
If jazz is an art of synthesis (rather than fusion) whereby disparate musical forms and styles are brought together in the spirit of exploration and experimentation to create something new, then Starflowers is just about the perfect album. Vocalist Sinikka Langeland, of Norwegian and Finnish background, has merged her investigations of the folk ...
Mats Eilertsen: Flux
by Budd Kopman
Bassist Mats Eilertsen is in high demand as a sideman, and a member of quite a few longstanding groups. As a leader and composer, Eilertsen put out the very interesting and atmospheric Turanga (AIM Records, 2005). The outstanding Flux brings together the same players, but in an entirely different style. What is immediately ...
