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Ellen Weller: Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations
by Budd Kopman
With Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations, Ellen Weller has created an album that attempts to unite the mystical with the musical. The liner art has many hieroglyphic-type symbols, as well as spirals and other shapes that feel like they are trying to “cross over to the other side."? Jewish mysticism is clearly referenced as “dybbuk" is ...
Jeff Parker/Scott Fields: Song Songs Song
by Budd Kopman
Although we are told that first impressions are usually correct (the “go with your gut" approach), the liner notes for this release nearly derailed my enjoyment of the music. The notes, such as they are, were written by Fields and consist of a stream-of-consciousness collection of words and phrases in a postmodern style full of in-jokes ...
Carlos Bechegas and Peter Kowald: Open View
by Budd Kopman
While the back cover of Open View says “Live at the CCB (Centro Cultural de Belem), Lisbon" and the liner has a picture of Carlos Bechegas and Peter Kowald on a stage, I heard no audience noise or applause on this recording. Perhaps they meant recorded live with no studio post-processing. In any case, the sheer ...
Dewey Redman w/ UNCG Jazz Band: The UNCG Jazz Ensemble Live with Dewey Redman
by Budd Kopman
If the quality of the playing and arranging by the students of the University of North Carolina (Greensboro) on this release is any indication of the jazz program in general, then jazz is going to be all right. Much has been made recently about the “Berklee phenomenon" where that school's graduates emerge as technicians with nothing ...
Bruce Cale: Live at Adelaide Festival 1980
by Budd Kopman
Music that reaches the state of being timeless returns to the CD player over and over again. The Bruce Cale Quartet's Live at the Adelaide Festival is one of those very special releases. The music is 25 years old and sounds as fresh today as it must have sounded then. It also sounds much fresher and ...
Greg Burk Quartet: Carpe Momentum
by Budd Kopman
I was hooked on Greg Burk's Carpe Momentum from the first seconds of the first cut. Burk has in himself, and strives to bring out in his sidemen, that which I consider one of the highest achievement in jazz: the ability to be rhythmically free, while all the time maintaining audible contact with the prevailing pulse, ...
Kali Z. Fasteau: Making Waves
by Budd Kopman
Kali Z. Fasteau is one extremely versatile musician. On Making Waves she plays synthesizer, soprano sax, cello, drums, mizmar, and uses her voice (with electronics) as a pure instrument. On top of that, she recorded, edited and produced the CD. The recording quality is very good, allowing instruments to be placed clearly in space. Finally, she ...
Steve Hudson Quintet: Outer Bridge
by Budd Kopman
Outer Bridge is the first release from the Steve Hudson Quintet. Their music is hard to categorize because, as their website says, “their original music aims to warp and fuse various styles of music--jazz, rock, Indian music, classical, funk--into something that inspires through deep grooves and searching improvisation." Hudson extends this, saying, “SHQ was created to ...
Ernest Dawkins: Mean Ameen
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins is new to me, as are the members of the AACM (Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) in general. But, it really doesn't matter in that the music is accessible, having a constant, strong rhythmic component, despite the free-ish romps played over that rhythm. The AACM philosophy of eclectic creativity and ...
Between The Lines Turns Five, Part 2-2
by Budd Kopman
Part 1 | Part 2 I apologize for the delay between parts 1 and 2 of this trek through an incredibly varied body of recordings. Rather than repeat my introductory remarks (seen here ), I will summarize the basic esthetic of the record label known as Between the Lines. Franz Koglmann wants to explore the boundary ...
