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The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast
by David Adler
With one exception, drummer John Hollenbeck hasn't taken prominent front-cover credit on releases by The Claudia Quintet. This holds true for Royal Toast, the band's extraordinary fifth album. The decision makes sense, for Hollenbeck's labyrinthine compositions get much of their subtlety and force from the individual players that have defined the group's identity from the start. ...
The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace: Royal Toast
by Troy Collins
The humorously titled Royal Toast is the fifth album from the Claudia Quintet, percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck's longstanding five-piece that is--in the eternal words of Duke Ellington--a band “beyond category." Eradicating the tenuous boundary lines between idioms, Hollenbeck and company draw on ethnic traditions, free jazz, contemporary composition and progressive rock in their multifaceted explorations.
May 2010
by AAJ Staff
Adam Lane Brooklyn LyceumBrooklyn, NY April 14, 2010While bassist Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra is named to conjure up great size and bombast, at present it's a compact sextet whose sonic inventory includes passages of nuance and overall calm. With a Bay Area lineup, Lane has released No(w) Music (Cadence, ...
Cuong Vu / Chris Speed: From The Pacific Northwest To The Atlantic Northeast And Beyond
by Robert Iannapollo
Myra Melford's Be Bread The Whole Tree Gone Firehouse 12 2010 Jakob Anderskov Agnostic Revelations ILK 2010 Lovedale Coziness Kills ILK 2009
Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010
by Gordon Marshall
Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...
Nicholas Urie: Excerpts From An Online Dating Service
by Eyal Hareuveni
Young and gifted American composer/conductor Nicholas Urie had a brilliant idea. Basing his debut suite, Excerpts From An Online Dating Service, on real Internet personal ads collected from cities all over United States and Canada, Urie attempts to transform these coded messages into poetic statements about the current human condition. This is implied by poet and ...
Esopus Opus
By Chris Speed
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Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Key Lime; 02. Manic Depression; 03. Within You Without You; 04. Esopus Opus; 05. Perolas;
06. New Um Talvez; 07. Flying; 09. Murnau on the Bayou; 10. Present Distance; 11. Red Hook.
Ben Perowski Quartet: Esopus Opus
by AAJ Italy Staff
Esopus Opus, album che per la prima volta vede il percussionista newyorkese Ben Perowski collaborare con l'etichetta discografica di Chris Speed, Skirl Records, è un disco diviso a metà. Perowski, affiancato dallo stesso Speed al clarinetto e al sassofono, Ted Reichman alla fisarmonica e Drew Gress al basso, passeggia fra brani recuperati dal repertorio firmato da ...
Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
The New Mellow Edwards Big Choantza Skirl Records 2009 Tyft Smell The Difference Skirl Records 2009 Ben Perowsky Quartet Esopus Opus Skirl Records 2009
Jim Black / Alas No Axis: Houseplant
by Glenn Astarita
Stylistically, revered progressive-jazz drummer Jim Black's Houseplant might not signify a radical departure from his four previous albums for the Winter & Winter record label, spanning 2000-2006. However, Black's substantial imprint on jazz--and here, jazz-rock--offers a mark of distinction due to his quirky, and sly manner of filling in the blanks from behind the kit. And ...
