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Odean Pope Quartet: Two Dreams
by Derek Taylor
With uncertain times comes the natural urge to seek sources of stability. An Odean Pope album is like a figurative life preserver in this regard. A listener can pretty much bank on certain assurances if Pope's horn is piloting the ship. Mellifluous free bop charts, ample solo space for the participants, and a guiding appreciation for ...
Devorah Day/Dominic Duval: Standard
by Florence Wetzel
If you think nothing new is happening in the world of jazz vocalists, it's time to listen to Devorah Day. Her 2003 debut, Light of Day (Abaton Book Company), was a revelation, and now she follows up with the equally strong Standard. Day is gifted with a one-of-a-kind voice: her range is astounding, and her phrasing ...
Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Kevin Norton: Rylickolum: For Your Pleasure
by Rex Butters
Saxophonist Paul Dunmall and bassist Paul Rogers share a longtime association playing European improvised music. With Keith Tippett and Tony Levin they complete the quartet known as Mujician. Dunmall also plays with singer Richard Thompson. With guitarist Phillip Gibb, Rogers and Dunmall comprise Moksha. With percussionist Ken Norton, an Anthony Braxton alumnus, they form a long-travelled ...
William Gagliardi Quintet: Hear and Now
by Derek Taylor
Just like most of his peers, Bill Gagliardi is building a discography brick by inexorable brick. He breaks ranks from their number with the realization that his activity in the studio has only born commercially released fruit in the past few years. Why the late ingress to the scene? Reasons are vague, but seem to stem ...
Harris Eisenstadt Quintet: Jalolu
by Derek Taylor
African referents in jazz are nothing new. Second Line Congolese rhythms crop up in the earliest New Orleans street music and syncopation lies at the root of pioneering ragtime. Drummers from Dodds to Blakey to Drake have been incorporating these patterns and practices for the better part of a century. As with any other facet of ...
Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Kevin Norton: Go Forth Duck
by Derek Taylor
Similar in cast to its predecessor, this disc presents the second part of a Spirit Room session from spring of last year. The touring trio of Dunmall, Rogers and Norton slake their substantial creative music thirsts on two massive slabs of improvised music broken by a comparatively cursory interlude. Back-story on the players as individuals is ...
Mark Dresser/Ray Anderson: Nine Songs Together
by Kurt Gottschalk
Despite a long association, bassist Mark Dresser and trombonist Ray Anderson make an unusual pair. The quintessentially New York Dresser is known for his deep, soul-stirring improvisations (his suite “The Five Outer Planets” here hints at his enormity of scale); Anderson, despite being born in Chicago and an early tenure in Anthony Braxton’s quartet, is more ...
Joe McPhee: Journey
by Florence Wetzel
Trio-X, composed of Joe McPhee on saxophone, Dominic Duval on bass, and Jay Rosen on drums, has made its Journey on CIMP. The label known as CIMP, or Creative Improvised Music Projects, occupies a unique place amongst its peers. Having recorded dozens of avant-garde groups, its vision includes presenting the music as is, recorded live to ...
Luther Thomas Quartet: Leave it to Luther
by Rex Butters
Leave it to Luther continues veteran alto saxophonist Luther Thomas’ fruitful association with CIMP. The label’s trademark living presence sound accentuates the tart and sweet sounds of Thomas and guitarist Ethan Mann, respectively, and catches every breath of Cliff Barbaro’s quicksilver cymbal work. Brian Smith’s basslines lurk and lead. As the band veers from free to ...
Ernie Krivda Quintet: Plays Ernie Krivda
by Derek Taylor
Retrospective looks back at liner notes will likely yield a preponderance of writers decrying the dearth of public notice afforded their subjects. So many musicians hold the signifier “unsung" next to their names that the count is long since lost. As such it hardly seems worth it to affix the word to Ernie Krivda’s situation, no ...
