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Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington In Coventry
by Chris Mosey
During World War Two, the Germans rained tons of high explosives, including parachute air-mines and incendiary petroleum mines on the English city of Coventry. In addition to factories supporting the British war effort, they destroyed the city's emblematic cathedral. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, took to using “Coventry" as a synonym for mass destruction. Enemy ...
Jussi Fredriksson Trio: !
by Anthony Shaw
Jussi Fredriksson is a pianist and musician well established on the Scandinavian music scene, and despite the associations his surname conjures, is a very Finnish jazz artist. Haling from the old capital of the country when it was part of greater Sweden, Turku remains an important base, but he and Mika Kallio on drums and Jori ...
Lisa Ullen: Piano Works
by Karl Ackermann
Lisa Ullén is best known for her work with Swiss bassist Nina de Heney, including Carve (2009), Look Right (2013)--both on LJ Records--and Quarrtsiluni (Lamour Records, 2016). Ullén was born in South Korea but raised in Sweden and graduated from the Royal Musical Academy in Stockholm where she studied classical piano. With well over a dozen ...
Enemy: Enemy
by Roger Farbey
An original member of Empirical, featured on their self-titled 2007 debut album, pianist Kit Downes went on to form the left-field jazz-rock trio Troyka, but had been leading his own trio as far back as 2005, with his first recording Golden released on Basho Records in 2009. On that album, as here, he was accompanied by ...
Dave Mihaly: Light in the Ring: The Ali Suite
by Harry S. Pariser
San Francisco-based drummer, percussionist, guitarist and pianist Dave Mihaly has long been a fan of boxing. And Mohammed Ali had been a hero of his youth. So he and his Shimmering Leaves Ensemble have taken it on in their sophomore effort to create a musical tribute to the life and legend of the legendary boxer and ...
Mars Williams / Tollef Østvang: Painted Pillars
by Mark Corroto
If you only know saxophonist Mars Williams from his gigs with the post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs or the hip-hop/funk band Liquid Soul, you're missing out on a talented and dedicated free-jazz improviser. He scatters himself in many directions, from collaborations with Chicago's Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Jim Baker and Michael Zerang, to work in Europe ...
Michael Moss - Accidental Orchestra: Helix
by Glenn Astarita
Veteran New York City-based free jazz acolyte, multi-instrumentalist Michael Moss (Sam Rivers, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner) maximizes the talents of his large ensemble via these simmering works designed with organized and loosely articulated dialogues. The ensemble kicks it off with the swirling and glaring “Inception," which is also tinted with a world music vibe ...
Jeff Berlin: Joe Frazier Round 3 (CD Single)
by John Kelman
In the world of music, there are plenty of “could have beens," but far fewer “should have beens." Count Jeff Berlin amongst the latter. The American electric bassist first made a number of marks in the second half of the musically innovative 1970s on a series of '76 recordings by singers Patti Austin and Esther Phillips, ...
Theo Hill: Interstellar Adventures
by Mike Jurkovic
Hot on the heels of his heralded 2017 effort Promethean, the five covers and five originals on his latest Interstellar Adventures serve as rousing calling-cards for Theo Hill as he continues his steady, determined ascent into the contemporary ranks of vital and inspired jazz pianists. With the exciting, percussive talents of bassist Rashaan Carter ...
Derek Bailey & Company: Klinker
by Roger Farbey
Derek Bailey and Will Gaines had already recorded together on Rappin' & Tappin' (Incus, 1994) and on the video Will (1995), so this archival session, captured live on Thursday 24 August 2000, at The Klinker in London, presents a further opportunity to hear this odd couple. Gaines was 72 at the time of this concert and ...
