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Adam Lane Quartet: Fo(u)r Being(s)
by Glenn Astarita
With this release, bassist Adam Lane and his all-star band perpetuate a series of frothy grooves spanning free-bop, a jazz waltz and vigorous improvisational forays. Here, drummer Barry Altschul and Lane provide the often tumultuous rhythms. A rather gleeful in-your-face approach it is, no doubt about it. Saxophonist John Tchicai and trumpeter Paul Smoker ride atop ...
Dominic Duval's String and Brass Ensemble: American Scrapbook
by AAJ Staff
Just the instrumentation lets you know your ears are in for a unique listening experience. Bassist and leader Dominic Duval has gathered a sextet featuring a string trio of Jason Hwang (violin), Tomas Ulrich (cello), and himself with a horn trio of long-time associate Joe McPhee (playing exclusively cornet), Tom Varner (French horn), and Steve Swell ...
John O'Gallagher's Axiom: John O'Gallagher's Axiom
by Glenn Astarita
Alto saxophonist John O’Gallagher displays some mighty impressive goods here, despite a somewhat sparse discography consisting of dates with the late Joe Henderson, Bob Belden, and a few others. The leaders aligns his wares with tenor sax titan, Tony Malaby along with veteran jazz drummer Jeff Williams and first call session ace, bassist John Hebert. On ...
Bruce Eisenbeil - Michael Attias - David Taylor - Jay Rosen: Opium
by Glenn Astarita
New York City based electric guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil treads upon paths similarly founded by the likes of Joe Morris and the grand master of improvised free-jazz type guitar, Derek Bailey. Eisenbeil primarily centers his craft within trio and here, quartet settings. With this effort, everyone shares the limelight. Soloing opportunities abound as the guitarist and saxophonist ...
Tom DeSteno & Bob Magnuson Quartet: Ready for Action
by Derek Taylor
Aligned in sturdy opposition to those who would have you believe that free jazz is a played out and parsimonious pursuit, modern improvisatory maestros Magnuson and DeSteno deliver the goods in an album that lives up to the boast of its chosen title. The co-leaders exercise a disarming subterfuge on the opening “She’s Gone” as the ...
Joe McPhee's Bluette: Let Paul Robeson Sing
by Derek Taylor
The themes of cultural and spiritual emancipation as reflected through the African American experience have served as the bread and butter for the music of Joe McPhee’s Bluette since the ensemble’s origins. It seems only natural then that the group would chose to honor a figure who stands as exemplary of these too often curtailed ideals. ...
Jean-Luc Guionnet & Edward Perraud: Heur
by Derek Taylor
An outcome of unexpected opportunity this duet arose out of a companion session at CIMP's Spirit Room for the Joe Rosenberg Quartet (see also on CIMP). Guionnet and Perraud, both visiting Frenchmen, capitalized on the generous offer posed by producer Bob Rusch and set about freely improvising for the better part of an hour. In their ...
T.J. Graham & Rory Stuart: Standards & Insights
by Derek Taylor
P>Creative improvised music remains a pursuit that largely doesn’t pay. It’s a reality that all musicians in the idiom must face and the necessity of a day job goes with the territory. In vocalist T.J. Graham’s case it’s college professor for financial sustenance and jazz improviser for creative release. Her debut on CIMP suggests significant facility ...
Burton Greene w/ Mark Dresser: Peace Beyond Conflict
by Derek Taylor
Burton Greene ranks as one of the seasoned survivors in creative improvised music. Like a handful of his ESP peers he’s still at it after all these years, plugging away at his craft and creating chameleonic music along the way. A relatively recent development in winding artistic path is his fertile association with CIMP. Throptics, his ...
Charles Eubanks: New Beginnings
by Derek Taylor
In the expanding CIMP canon piano recordings are comparatively small in number. The cramped size and nature of the Spirit Room makes the presence of a piano problematic. To accommodate the small number of sessions where the instrument is essential Bob Rusch commonly rents space in a nearby recital hall. The change of locale necessarily creates ...
