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E. Taylor Atkins: Let's Call This... Our Jazz?
by Ian Patterson
African-American vernacular or universal language? Symbol of freedom and equality, or one of nationalist ideals and bourgeois elitism? Folk music or high art? Jazz, since its earliest days, has represented many things to many people. For Professor E. Taylor Atkins, such binary ways of thinking rather over-simplify the arguments. Whereas an either or way of thinking ...
Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski: Gathering Call
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Matt Wilson may define the ideal of unabashed enthusiasm better than anyone else in jazz. His cymbals and drums even seem to be smiling when he sets sticks to them, so it should come as no shock that musical zeal is a key factor in the success of Gathering Call. For his eleventh album as ...
Paul Motian: Jack of Clubs
by Dan McClenaghan
As a drummer, Paul Motian (1931-2011) came to an early fame from his association with Bill Evans. It was the pianist's 1961 Riverside Records trio albums Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard that did the trick, shifting the way of the piano trio into the direction of democracy and intricate interplay, also launching ...
Quartets
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1 (Fish Out of Water): Fish Out of Water; Haghia Sophia; The Dirge; Bharati; Eyes of Love; Mirror; Tellaro. CD2 (Notes from Big Sur): Requiem; Sister; Pilgrimage to the Mountain - Part 1, Persevere; Sam Song; Takur; Monk in Paris; When Miss Jessye Sings; Pilgrimage to the Mountain - Part 2, Surrender. CD3 (The Call): Nocturne; Song; Dwiija; Glimpse; Imke; Amarma; Figure in Blue, Memories of Duke; The Blessing; Brother on the Rooftop. CD4 (All My Relations): Piercing the Veil; Little Peace; Thelonious Theonlyus; Cape to Cairo Suite (Hommage to Mandela); Evanstide, Where Lotus Bloom; All My Relations; Hymn to the Mother; Milarepa. CD5 (Canto): Tales of Rumi; How Can I Tell You; Desolation Sound; Canto; Nachiketa's Lament; M; Durga Durga.
Hagar's Song
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Pretty Girl; Mood Indigo; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; All About Ronnie; Pictogram; You've Changed; Hagar Suite: I. Journey Up the River, II. Dreams of White Bluff, III. Alone, IV. Bolivar Blues, V. Hagar's Lullaby; Rosetta; I Shall Be Released; God Only Knows.
Ian Patterson's Best Releases of 2013
by Ian Patterson
The following list represents my personal favorites of those CDs I reviewed this year. I am convinced that we live in a great age for jazz/creative music. You can only ever listen to a very small percentage of what's out there, but it's still a privilege to able to access this much terrific music.
2013 Jazztopad Festival
by John Kelman
Jazztopad FestivalWrocĺaw, Poland November 18-24, 2013 It's always a treat to be invited somewhere new, especially somewhere with a strong jazz scene that remains, for the most part, hidden from the rest of the world. But when the country is Poland and the city Wrocĺaw, there are even greater treats awaiting, as ...
NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton Dead At 92
Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Dead at 92 “I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white- they're just human beings. I don't dig staying in one groove. At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want ...
2013 Enjoy Jazz Festival
by John Kelman
Enjoy Jazz 2013 Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany November 6-14, 2013 It's always a treat to return to Heidelberg for Enjoy Jazz. As a very intended contrast to most jazz festivals, that compress a lot of music into a very short time, Enjoy Jazz's founding premise, when it was first conceived 15 years ago by ...
Jack DeJohnette: Painting With Sticks
by George Colligan
The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth.The name Jack DeJohnette is synonymous with modern jazz drumming. Many know him for his years spent with the Keith Jarrett Trio, but he first came to prominence with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis in the '60s. He's always in demand as a sideman--although you ...
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