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Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rabo De Nube
by Chris May
It's fitting that the shimmeringly beautiful Rabo De Nube, which is being released to celebrate reed player Charles Lloyd's 70th birthday on March 15, 2008, is a live album. Lloyd became a star forty years ago with a series of paradigm-shifting live discs recorded on a seemingly never-ending tour of the USA and Europe--seven of them ...
Mysteries Of The Revolution: Mysteries Of The Revolution
by Chris May
Composer/multi-instrumentalist BB Davis' London-based Red Orchidstra has been described as sounding like “Oscar Wilde on acid." Mysteries Of The Revolution, the keyboards-led power trio made up of the rhythmic core of the band, might similarly be described as “Arthur Rimbaud on a headful of the finest, hand pressed, Nepalese ganja." Not literally, for words play only ...
Horace Silver: Live At Newport '58
by Chris May
Fifty years on, and previously unreleased, this boisterous festival performance by pianist Horace Silver's quintet is 40 minutes of hard swinging, compositionally distinguished, primo hard bop. It's also the only known recording by a band in the process of morphing from the line-up which recorded Further Explorations (Blue Note, 1958) to the one which cut Finger ...
David "Fathead" Newman: Introducing David Newman
by Chris May
Despite a poverty of packaging which suggests the sort of shoddy compilations sold on gas station forecourts--no personnel or other session details, no profile of the artist--Introducing David Newman proves to be an enjoyable twelve-track trawl through albums recorded by saxophonist/flautist David “Fathead" Newman for Atlantic, Warner Bros, Reprise and Elektra from 1959-77 (most of them ...
Chick Corea & Gary Burton: The New Crystal Silence
by Chris May
Time flies when you're having fun. 2007 marked the 35th anniversary of pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton's duo, and 2009 will be the 30th anniversary of the pair's first album, Crystal Silence (ECM, 1972). To celebrate the occasions, Corea and Burton have released a double-disc, quasi-greatest hits collection recorded live in Australia ...
Marco Benevento: Invisible Baby
by Chris May
If you thought keyboardist Marco Benevento and drummer Joe Russo's duo made some noise, you ain't heard nothing yet. If Best Reason To Buy The Sun (Ropeadope, 2005) offended you, step away from the speakers. Benevento was only warming up. When Benevento arrived in New York in 2001, he studied piano with ...
Jose James: The Dreamer
by Chris May
Listen out for this guy in 2008. Vocalist Jose James isn't going to be the next Jamie Cullum--his style is too understated and his attitude faces purposefully away from the mainstream--but The Dreamer, Brooklyn-based James' debut album, has star quality. James made a splash in late 2007 with a reworking of John ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Chris May
Pianist/composer Nik Bartsch's wondrous synthesis of intellect and funk, of lofty cerebral abstraction and urgent physical energy, is so thrilling that it may produce in the listener an urge to scramble on top of the nearest building and start yelling “hallelujah!" and “eureka!" at everyone within earshot. Holon is the second album Bartsch has ...
Theo Jorgensmann & Oles Brothers: Alchemia
by Chris May
Clarinetist Theo Jorgensmann's Alchemia is the third Hat Hut release in a row in which a free improvising, progressive musician has woven overt and telling references to past glories of the jazz tradition into his own, singular style. Cellist Daniel Levin's Blurry (Hat Hut, 2007) evoked the chamber jazz of the 1950s and 1960s ...
Cheb i Sabbah: Devotion
by Chris May
This is the seventh album Algerian-born DJ and producer Cheb i Sabbah has produced for world, ambient and beyond label Six Degrees and, like its predecessors Shri Durga (Six Degrees, 1999) and Krishna Lila (Six Degrees, 2002), it takes its inspiration from the music of India. Other Sabbah discs have drawn on African and Arabic source ...
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