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Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid
by Chris May
Conventional wisdom has it that saxophonist Pharoah Sanders' signature, late-1960s astral jazz recording is “The Creator Has A Master Plan" from Karma (Impulse!, 1969). But conventional wisdom is rarely to be trusted. Clocking in at an unhurried and mesmerising 32:45, “Master Plan" is certainly definitive Sanders of the time; yet “Upper Egypt And Lower Egypt," from ...
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
by Chris May
In case you missed it, back in 2006 singer and guitarist Willie Nelson--then 73 years young-- got busted in Louisiana. Highway police following Nelson's band bus noticed a strong smell of marijuana coming out of the windows, stopped the vehicle and found somewhere between one and a half and two pounds of weed and a bag ...
Phil Robson: Six Strings & The Beat
by Chris May
Surrounded by an animated buzz since its live debut in 2007 at Derby Jazz Week, London-based guitarist Phil Robson's first outing with a string quartet proves to be every bit as exciting as the grapevine promised. Best known to date for his work with the revved up and riotous Partisans band, which ...
Stan Getz: At The Shrine
by Chris May
> Stan Getz At The Shrine Verve 1955 Bookended between The Complete Roost Recordings (Verve, 1950-55) and The Steamer (Verve, 1956), this November 8, 1954 live recording from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is often overlooked when checklists of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's early classics are ...
Melingo: Maldito Tango
by Chris May
Like the Algerian singer Rachid Taha and Spanish band Ojos de Brujo, Argentinean singer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Melingo is broadening the scope of his native music while ensuring that its cultural identity remains intact. All three artists are creating “roots" music, but the extent of their innovations means that conservative Maghrebi, flamenco and tango fans dispute ...
David Sanchez: Cultural Survival
by Chris May
It's been almost four years since saxophonist David Sanchez released Coral (Columbia, 2004), the disc which marked the end of an eleven year relationship with Sony Music--and it's wonderful to have his big, singing, prolix tenor back, on song and kicking. Sanchez has not been idle since Coral, touring extensively with his own band, ...
Blink: Blink
by Chris May
Although it's a record on which three adventurous London musicians each contribute to making the earth move, Blink may one day be best remembered as the album with which pianist Alcyona Mick started getting taken very seriously indeed. Still in her mid-twenties, Mick is a jazz player whose style is enriched by ...
Django Bates: Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)
by Chris May
One of the true visionary geniuses of British--and indeed all--modern jazz, keyboardist and composer Django Bates is a shaman and synapse twister with a breathtakingly imaginative take on the traditions and structures he recalibrates. His energy is iconoclastic but also sunny and effervescent and benign, shot through with humor and relish of the absurd. His ideas ...
John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell: News for Lulu
by Chris May
Fun, fun, brilliant, spirit-raising fun. News For Lulu, recorded in 1987 and here reissued in a new master with a bonus track, features three idiosyncratic post-modern improvisers in a homage to the late 1950s hard bop songbook--not playing the material for laughs, not subjecting it to "reconstruction," but approaching it with joy, respect, truck ...
Pandelis Karayorgis / Nate McBride / Curt Newton: Betwixt
by Chris May
Tutored early on by Paul Bley, and with Thelonious Monk and Lennie Tristano his most pronounced formative influences, Pandelis Karayorgis isn't the most likely pianist to become a late-adopter of the Fender Rhodes. But after some twenty years recording with an acoustic instrument, on Betwixt Karayorgis exclusively plays the electric Fender Rhodes. Or perhaps ...
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