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John Surman: From Boy Choirs to Big Horns
by John Kelman
It's increasingly risky to be a musician on the road. When British saxophonist John Surman was traveling from his home in Oslo, Norway, to New York City in September, 2007 for a recording session, he almost lost his baritone saxophone to the airlines. “It is a nightmare traveling now," says Surman, “and hardly a tour goes ...
Blue Notes: The Ogun Collection
by AAJ Italy Staff
In principio fu il Sud Africa; e la fuga dall'apartheid di cinque musicisti neri e un pianista bianco. Era il 1964 e nel paese dei diamanti le prospettive per un sestetto jazz a ranghi misti [si chiamavano Blue Notes] non erano certo incoraggianti. Da qui la decisione di approfittare dell'invito del festival di Juan-Les-Pins, arrivato grazie ...
Eclipse at Dawn
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Introduction by Ronnie Scott; Nick Tete; Restless; Do It; Eclipse at Dawn; The Bride; Now; Funky Boots March; Ronnie Scott and Chris McGregor send-off and applause.
Up To Earth
Label: Fledg'ling Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Moonlight Aloe; Yickytickee/Union Special; Up To Earth; Years Ago Now.
Jan Johansson: From Small Acorns...
by Ian Patterson
Upon hearing the news and in a state of disbelief, Randi Hultin the legendary Norwegian jazz journalist rang pianist Reinhold Svensson who confirmed the worst: “Yes. Swedish jazz has just died."1 Reinhold's reaction to the death in a car accident of fellow pianist Jan Johansson whilst melodramatic reflected Jan Johansson's importance in the contemporary Swedish jazz ...
Chris McGregor: Very Urgent, Up to Earth & Eclipse at Dawn
by A. Henkin
Chris McGregor Group Very Urgent Fledg'ling 2008 Chris McGregor Septet Up to Earth Fledg'ling 2008 Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 2007
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath: Eclipse At Dawn
by Nic Jones
This one only goes to show how easy review writing can sometimes be. Imagine a band that on the occasion captured for posterity here consisted of eleven pieces caught on a night when they were in sparkling form. That doesn't do it justice. Arguably as much a political statement by dint of its very being as ...
Chris McGregor: Up To Earth
by Clifford Allen
This archival release of South African pianist-composer Chris McGregor's music was recorded in 1969, ostensibly as a follow-up to the Blue Notes' Very Urgent (Polydor, 1968), also reissued by Fledg'ling. It serves as somewhat of a missing link between the Euro-African free jazz of their debut and the township and kwela-inflected big band looseness of the ...
Chris McGregor: Eclipse at Dawn and Very Urgent
by Clifford Allen
In the spoken introduction to the latest archival recording from pianist Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath, emcee Ronnie Scott quips that “South Africa is a wonderful place...to come from." The audience at the 1971 Berlin Jazztage responds with uneasy laughter at Scott's thinly-veiled politics, then cheers as Dudu Pukwana tartly comments with his horn. ...
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath: Eclipse at Dawn
by Jerry D'Souza
The advent of a recording from the Brotherhood of Breath is a time of eager anticipation. The band was always inventive, their music challenging. They rode the winds of free jazz, added the flavor of dance music and enticed with the beat of the kwela. They bring all these elements together once more on this live ...
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