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Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Clifford Allen
Reedman-composer Vinny Golia has found a home in playing scenarios of all stripes (orchestra, solo, and duets with collaborators from seemingly all walks of the improvisational spectrum), but the small-group format of the power trio is a favorite. Apparently the first in a two-volume set, Zero Degree Music, under the leadership of bassist-composer Adam Lane (who ...
Khan Jamal Quintet: Black Awareness
by Rex Butters
Vibraphonist Khan Jamal's fourth session for CIMP finds the veteran in the company of old friends for a relaxed atmosphere in which to blow. Longtime collaborator Byard Lancaster plays a sweetly inflected alto that's also capable of a bite. Trombonist Grachan Moncur III stays low-key, most times preferring understatement. Bassist Dylan Taylor and drummer Dwight James ...
Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Rex Butters
Zero Degree Music documents Adam Lane's trio in what hopefully will be the first of many collaborations to come. Basing its kinetic explorations on Lane's original compositions, the trio rolls the structure around until every facet has been exposed and polished, discovering new jewels along the way. Lane snakes lyrical time-bound bass through the tumult, while ...
Trio X: Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen: Moods: Playing with the Elements
by Ty Cumbie
I'll bet anyone $50 that the wonderful multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee could play beautifully on an old length of PVC pipe. Any takers? You'd lose. I've seen him do it, and there were at least thirty other witnesses. Neither PVC nor any other sort of plumbing material is listed on this Trio X release, and silver-haired tunes ...
Prince Lasha & Odean Pope Trio: The Mystery of Prince Lasha
by Derek Taylor
Shooting for a faux sense of inscrutability, the tongue-in-cheek title of this new CIMP masks what is an unsurprisingly common occurrence in creative improvised music. Like others of his era who have dropped beneath the public radar since their halcyon days, Prince Lasha opted for a more financially remunerative path than the largess of professional musicianship ...
Stephen Gauci Trio: First, Keep Quiet
by Derek Taylor
Cadence kingpin Bob Rusch has a reputable knack for putting his faith and funds toward the promotion of unsung saxophonists. Stephen Gauci is the latest in a formidable line that includes Ernie Krivda, Avram Fefer, James Finn, and Bill Gagliardi. But Gauci's story is a bit different from the others. In addition to the usual obstacles ...
Trio X: Moods: Playing with the Elements
by Derek Taylor
Recorded the day following Trio X's last release, The Sugar Hill Suite (CIMP, 2005), this new disc is both companion session and departure. That earlier date spent substantial space ruminating on the history and cultural legacy of the named Harlem neighborhood, and the music ended up less overtly incendiary as a result. This one aligns more ...
Jay Rosen: Songs for Samuel
by Derek Taylor
Dedicated to Jay Rosen's recently deceased father Samuel, this solo date carries an abiding air of necessary solemnity. But as he asserts in his notes, Rosen's wish was to celebrate his father's living rather than lament his passing. The disc's dozen tracks do just that in dynamic fashion, relying on a kit augmented by peripheral devices ...
David Taylor-Steve Swell Quintet: Not Just...
by Derek Taylor
The hunt for novel instrument groupings is especially hard these days. Between the fields of classical and improvised music, virtually every conceivable sort of aggregate has been attempted at one time or another. Co-chaired by two trombones and rounded out by a trio of strings, this quintet may very well have precedent. But these five cunning ...
Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Derek Taylor
Jazz fans often lament the irretrievability of the past. Many are the numbers who bellyache about the present absence giants on par with Mingus, Coltrane, and Miles. To those with their ears nostalgically fixated on the past masters, I heartily recommend auditioning some Adam Lane. Calling Lane the next Mingus, or the next William Parker for ...
