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Andrew Rathbun: Shadow Forms
by Budd Kopman
For some reason, I never associated Andrew Rathbun with the Canadian scene, especially as embodied in the ever-expanding circle of David Braid and Mike Murley. There is something in his playing and compositions, just like Kenny Wheeler, that I cannot place--and which renders him distinct from the others. In any case, Shadow Forms ...
Meditation and Trance: Bill Bulinski and Birch Book
by Budd Kopman
There are many streams, rivulets and eddies in the world of music and one of them, which could be called meditative or trance folk music, is represented in different ways by the two releases reviewed below. Bill Bulinski Bare Naked Guitar Spiritwood Music 2006 One of the first things you ...
Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz
by Budd Kopman
Il Bello Del Jazz is surely one of the most entrancing mainstream albums of the year. This group swings so effortlessly and with such sureness that its music transcends such labels as mainstream and becomes the simple the Ellingtonian “good." While this release sounds entirely different than Apparition, it has that same smile-inducing warmth that comes ...
Dave Glasser: Above The Clouds
by Budd Kopman
Nat Hentoff, in his liner notes to Above The Clouds, doth protest too much in his discussion of jazz, with its supposed death in the States and its creative future in Europe, and then tying his categoric “No!" to icons such as Clark Terry and Jimmy Heath, and youngsters such as 13-year-old Grace Kelly.
Marcus Strickland: Twi-Life
by Budd Kopman
Twi-Life, an impressively packaged double album featuring two different bands headed by Marcus Strickland, is the initial release of Strickland's own label, Strick Muzik. The Marcus Strickland quartet plays on disc one, where the reedist is backed by pianist Robert Glasper, bassist Vincente Archer and his brother, E. J. Strickland, on drums. Starting ...
Greg Burk: The Way In
by Budd Kopman
It has been said that a jazz musician exposes his or her soul and is existentially naked when improvising in front of an audience. However, those perfect performances are rare, and most of the time they are just good. At these most common times, a player falls back onto things he has done before, maybe even ...
Francois Carrier: Open Spaces
by Budd Kopman
With Open Spaces, Francois Carrier has given us an opportunity to hear him paired with the magnificent Dewey Redman, recorded over two nights live in Quebec City in 1999. Carrier's usual drummer, Michel Lambert, provides powerhouse support on both nights, while bassist Michel Donato plays on track one and Ron Seguin on tracks two and three. ...
Gerry Hemingway: Double Blues Crossing
by Budd Kopman
Double Blues Crossing is actually two records in one. The first is a set of five related tracks carrying the record's title, which together could easily be a soundtrack to a short movie of the story that is presented in the liner notes. The Buddy Luckett and Joe Cracklin named in the tracks are characters in ...
Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There
by Budd Kopman
So There is a mixture of Robert Creeley reading short poems and fragments of longer ones, surrounded and accompanied by Steve Kuhn's light, dazzling, free piano and Steve Swallow's feathery bass (and guitar-like solos in the upper register)--plus occasionally the Cikada String Quartet, both alone and with Swallow and Kuhn. Creeley's poems have ...
The Django Reinhardt New York Festival at Birdland, November 11, 2006
by Budd Kopman
The Django Reinhardt New York FestivalBirdlandSaturday, November 11, 2006 If music can ever be said to bring sheer, unadulterated, unfettered joy, it did so on this night and, I was told, on every night since the preceding Tuesday, when the Birdland DjangoFest started. There were French exchanges between the crowd, and the ...
