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Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Whispers on the Wind
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen's Florida-based and Grammy-nominated Jazz Surge is back in the saddle with another series of impressive musical portraits, Whispers on the Wind, whose genesis harkens back to Owen's childhood in windy Omaha, NE, and whose inspiration derives in part from the works of three contemporary authors: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King (the last, ...
Stephen Foulkes and David Bednall: Shropshire Lads: Songs to the Poems of AE Housman
by C. Michael Bailey
'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer. With those words, poet AE Housman begins his celebrated Poem LXII from his famous collection A Shropshire Lad. This particular poem contains the admonition that, ...
Ivo Perelman: Heptagon
by Glenn Astarita
Over the past few years, Brazilian tenor sax luminary Ivo Perelman has been releasing albums in clusters based on themes / approaches: The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 1--Vol. 6 and The Art of Perelman-(Matthew) Shipp Vol. 1--Vol. 7 and Heptagon is one of six new simultaneous releases. Here, Perelman appears with longtime ...
Tomasz Stańko New York Quartet: December Avenue
by Giuseppe Segala
Sulla scia del precedente, intenso Wislawa, dedicato alla poetessa polacca Wislawa Szymborska, sempre realizzato insieme al New York Quartet, questo December Avenue sviluppa la medesima dimensione espressiva, intrisa di lirismo. Un quartetto che interpreta al meglio i percorsi di Tomasz Stanko, già delineati al tempo delle registrazioni con la formazione polacca dallo stesso organico strumentale che ...
Jane Getter Premonition: ON Tour
by John Kelman
With the release of ON (Madfish/Snapper, 2015)--the debut album with her newly minted Premonition band--guitarist Jane Getter completed her move from the funk/fusion guitar workouts of her first two albums (1997's Jane and 2005's See Jane Run) towards a more progressive leaning which began with Three (Alternity, 2012). It's a move that the New York-based Getter ...
Leon Russell: On a Distant Shore
by C. Michael Bailey
In the same way that the death of my Aunt Irene in the early 1990s showed me Father Time was coming for my immediate family, did I realize the same fate awaited my musical heroes when Frank Zappa was shown the door about the same time. This past year has been especially hard with the deaths ...
Henry Kaiser: Friends & Heroes: Guitar Duets
by Roger Farbey
There a real Smörgåsbord of pieces on Henry Kaiser's Friends & Heroes: Guitar Duets. They are stylistically varied improvisational vignettes ranging from the eccentric “Three Languages" with Fred Frith to the heavy electric blues of “A Mighty Fire" with Knut Reiersrud. There's also prog(-ish) rock on “Harmony Jam" with Nels Cline and there's a kind of ...
Miriodor: Signal 9
by Glenn Astarita
Here, the influential French-Canadian prog rock outfit Miriodor releases its 9th album. Since its formation in 1980, the band has been nestled within the Rock in Opposition movement alongside cutting-edge ensembles such as Henry Cow (UK), Art Zoyd (France) and Univers Zero (Belgium). Hence, the premise behind much of this was in response to the music ...
Jacques Lesure: For the Love of You
by Jack Bowers
For one to whom almost every well-strummed guitar sounds basically the same, an honest appraisal of any guitar-led group must begin with other earmarks such as group interplay, individual dexterity, choice of material and over-all level of musicianship. Happily, guitarist Jacques Lesure's latest recording, For the Love of You, scores high in every respect, making the ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Recent Developments
by John Sharpe
How do you pass the tedium of a long haul flight? Catch up on sleep, or take in those films you meant to watch but never got round to viewing? Few of us spend the time as productively as Canadian drummer Harris Eisenstadt who sketched out the main elements of his Recent Developments suite on the ...
