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Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd: Monk's Dream
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although this recording would mark their first reunion since the early '60s and the times of their School Days quartet, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd have much in common, going back to their collective roots in Dixieland jazz. Both would take the cue of Cecil Taylor and other “new thing" artists in an attempt ...
Brian Blade Fellowship: Perceptual
by C. Andrew Hovan
Far from your typical young jazz artist, drummer Brian Blade seems almost bent on avoiding classification. He's been found in the studio and/or on the road with such disparate employers as Joshua Redman, Bob Dylan, Seal, and Joni Mitchell. With technical prowess of obvious proportions, Blade is equally reticent about flashy drum displays, content to merely ...
Sonny Rollins: The Freelance Years:The Complete Riverside & Contemporary Recordings
by C. Andrew Hovan
In the collective media catalog that has been developed by Sonny Rollins over the past many decades there is much that is of tangible worth, while only his recordings of the past 15 years or so tend to be dispensable in the long run. Taken together as a group, first-rate Rollins would have to include his ...
Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although he's been a victim of those stylistic ins and outs since he first hit the national scene as a member of the Miles Davis quintet in the mid-'60s, multi- instrumentalist Sam Rivers seems to be enjoying a renewed popularity thanks in part to his 1999 Grammy-nominated RCA release Inspiration. His first recording for a major ...
Dave Douglas: Soul On Soul
by C. Andrew Hovan
It's a promising sign to see that the revivalist movement once fronted by Wynton Marsalis has now given way to a manifold and more healthy jazz outlook. A bi-product of the shifting mores, trumpeter Dave Douglas could be considered a renaissance man, ready to carry the music to the next level. JazzTimes magazine's 1999 Musician of ...
George Colligan: Small Room
by C. Andrew Hovan
Time out for a personal pitch regarding one of the most imaginative up-and- coming pianists on the contemporary jazz scene. Thirty-year-old New Jersey native, George Colligan has compiled quite a resume, what with offers for sideman gigs from Gary Thomas, Lee Konitz, Freddy Cole, Billy Hart, and Steve Wilson, not to mention a magnificent spate of ...
Dave Holland Quintet: Prime Directive
by C. Andrew Hovan
During the 1980s jazz was still recovering from the decimation that had taken place the previous decade. The vast wasteland and dead-end streets that fusion and “lite jazz" had left was beginning to turn a tide with the renaissance movement being ushered in by Wynton Marsalis. Unbeknownst to only a select jazz crowd, bassist Dave Holland ...
John Scofield: Bump
by C. Andrew Hovan
Ever since he signed with the Verve label a few years back, guitarist John Scofield has been on the upswing of the trendy movement we’ll call, for lack of a better term, the “Acid Jazz" scene. He scored really big with A Go Go, his critically-acclaimed 1998 collaboration with the supergroup Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Now ...
Dave Stryker: Blue to the Bone II
by C. Andrew Hovan
Considering that forty-something guitarist Dave Stryker has made over a dozen albums under his own name, leads a sharp quartet with Steve Slagle, and is in constant demand as a sideman working in the past with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, Javon Jackson, and Kevin Mahogany, you'd think he'd be practically a household name. Unfortunately that's not ...
Peter Leitch: Blues on the Corner
by C. Andrew Hovan
Guitarist Peter Leitch has been so long in that category of “talent deserving wider recognition" that it's almost a given that “household name" status will probably continue to allude him. And it probably doesn't abet the matter that his work on the small Reservoir label, not to mention his Criss Cross sides, can be elusive to ...
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