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Aruán Ortiz Trio with Brad Jones and Chad Taylor: Live in Zürich
by Karl Ackermann
Live in Zürich is the twelfth album from Cuban avant-garde composer and pianist Aruán Ortiz. Of those recordings widely available in the US, Ortiz has worked with a variety of group formats. His quartet released Orbiting (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2013), was followed by a trio outing on Hidden Voices (Intakt Records, 2016) and two successive ...
Musicianer: Slow Learner
by John Sharpe
With Musicianer reedman Josh Sinton adroitly shows how to combine the abstract and the earthy. It helps that he has enlisted long time associates drummer Chad Taylor and bassist Jason Ajemian to realize the eleven compositions on the group's debut Slow Learner. Taylor, who first garnered international attention in the Chicago Underground Duo (etc) with cornetist ...
Thollem | Mazurek: Blind Curves and Box Canyons
by Karl Ackermann
In a remote outpost of creativity, the little town of Marfa sits on less than two square miles, a one-hour drive from the Mexican border. With a population of about two-thousand, it may, nevertheless, be the Brooklyn of the West Texas desert plateau. From its beginnings as an artist colony (of sorts), Marfa has been developing ...
Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die
by Karl Ackermann
Improvisational trumpeter and electronics artist Jaimie Branch, a Chicago native, began playing trumpet at the age of nine. Doing double-duty, she has also worked around her home town as a sound engineer for Tim Daisy and Ken Vandermark. A relative newcomer, Branch moved to New York to complete a Master's degree in in Jazz Performance and ...
Chicago Underground Duo al Pinocchio Live Jazz
by Neri Pollastri
Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 14.02.2015. Rob Mazurek frequenta spesso il nostro paese e a Firenze in particolare ha una folta schiera di estimatori, creatasi anche grazie al Chicago Underground Duo con Chad Taylor. Il suo ritorno al Pinocchio, perciò, non poteva essere che salutato con entusiasmo, reso tangibile da ...
Chicago Underground Duo al Carambolage di Bolzano
by Giuseppe Segala
Piccolo Teatro Carambolage Bolzano 9 febbraio 2015 Lo spazio del Carambolage di Bolzano, piccolo teatro dedicato spesso al cabaret, è ideale anche per la musica. Lo ha dimostrato la pregevole programmazione attuata da Vittorio Albani nell'arco di una decina di anni in cui sono passati tanti paladini del jazz ...
Woven Entity: Woven Entity
by Karl Ackermann
Even by the standards of the increasingly improvisational Babel Label, the self-titled Woven Entity is an unusual release. With a core group of three percussionists and a bass, the Woven Entity quartet includes Lascelle Gordon, formerly with the acid jazz band, The Brand New Heavies. While Gordon doubles up on percussion and electronics, fellow percussionist Patrick ...
Locus
Label: Northern Spy
Released: 2014
Track listing: Locus; Boss; The Human Economy; Yaa Yaa Kole; House of the Axe; Borrow and Burry; Blink Out; Kabuki; Dante.
Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2014
by Troy Collins
Considering the quantity of recordings released in a year's time, attempting to compile an end of the year list mentioning every first-rate session would be difficult at best. The ten titles included below are among the most exceptional new jazz albums I've heard in 2014. Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire ...
Pharoah & The Underground: Spiral Mercury
by Karl Ackermann
With Pharaoh & the Underground we have two generations of musicians whose common bond is their greatness. Tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders--heir to his friend and colleague John Coltrane--and Rob Mazurek, the most inventive cornetist since Louis Armstrong are captured together on Spiral Mercury . The album is a document of a 2013 concert, one of the ...
