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Ingrid Laubrock Quintet: Live at the Progress Bar
by Chris May
Ingrid Laubrock Quintet Progress Bar London April 21, 2005 Being at a F-IRE performance in '05 feels like it must have felt to be at Minton's Playhouse in '41 or the Cavern Club in '63. There's a sense of being somewhere where the future is being written out in front ...
Jim Rattigan: Jazz French Horn
by Chris May
Say what? While the French horn is not exactly unknown in jazz--step forward players Julius Watkins and John Graas and orchestrators Gil Evans and Miles Davis, amongst others--it's still enough of a novelty to raise at least one of your eyebrows. But this is by no means a novelty album. It's actually a very ...
Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Boogaloo
by Chris May
Subtitled “Latin dance with New York attitude," this wonderful, wonderful album presents eighteen choice cuts from the boogaloo craze which ruled New York's barrios in the late '60s. They will make you feel good, feel strong, make your whole body want to dance and give you heart for tomorrow, just like they did for the kids ...
Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in
by Chris May
Some albums change the world forever and others--greater in number, but still not enough--simply make the world a more enjoyable place. Check-in is one of the latter. It offers late-period top-drawer hard bop writ large and luminous today--there are unmistakable Kind Of Blue and Somethin' Else resonances throughout the set--and although not untouched by developments in ...
Konono No.1: Congotronics
by Chris May
Once in a while an album comes along which is so insanely wonderful that--jazz or not--it needs to be brought to the attention of this community. Such an album is Congotronics by Kinshasa trance band Konono No.1. Unless you live in Kinshasa, or were at Amsterdam's Paradiso club last year for the recording of ...
Tim Richards' Great Spirit: Epistrophy
by Chris May
Tim Richards' current band, the nine-piece Great Spirit, continues to explore much the same territory as its predecessor Spirit Level, which Richards disbanded in 1999, after 20 years and seven albums, presumably feeling the need to “refresh the brand." Muscular hard bop laced with a touch of R&B (as in Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers rather ...
Polar Bear: Held On The Tips Of Fingers
by Chris May
The second album from Sebastian Rochford's group of young London anarcho-punk-groove-electronica-free improv upsetters is an even more thrilling and momentous affair than its predecessor, last year's highly acclaimed Dim Lit. It's the most radical, invigorating and heartening Britjazz album to be released so far this year and, even though it is still only March, it's certain ...
Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows
by Chris May
The last twelve months or so have been a giddying reissue bonanza for fans of British jazz from the '60s and '70s. A feast following a famine, of course, as most of the reissued music, much of it now on CD for first time, has been unavailable for over twenty years. That axis of key innovators ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: Remakes
by Chris May
Another manifestation of Nils Petter Molvaer's groundbreaking np3 album--which only last autumn made up the bulk of the material for the Streamer live set--Remakes offers six original tracks in eleven new mixes made by mixologists ranging from bandmembers Rune Arnesen and Raymond Pellicier through established console stars like Bill Laswell and emergent ones like Matthew Herbert.
Wibutee: Playmachine
by Chris May
Norwegian quartet Wibutee's third album for Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland label is a (micro)chip off the new block, as the group continues its exploration of electronica, jazz, and backbeat-driven rhythm. In the main, we're dealing with grooves here--some of them chilled, some of them urgent--and what improvisation there is, most of it coming from Haron ...
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