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John Oswald/Dominic Duval/David Prentice: Bloor
by Derek Taylor
From the opening strains of the first track this trio punches gaping holes in any notion of regarding them as typical chamber jazz ensemble. The requisite instrumentation is in place- reeds and strings. But the resultant music is a distant cry from the sweet sonorities and austere contemplation so often associated with such a set-up. The ...
Yuko Fujiyama Quartet: Re-entry
by AAJ Staff
Re-entry is a really great album, but it has a fatal flaw: the leader, pianist Yuko Fujiyama, disappears deep in the crevasses of the left channel. If for nothing else, this record deserves attention as a failure of engineering. Producer Robert Rusch ironically hits it right on the head when he offers up some (ironic but ...
Masashi Harada Trio: Seismic Plant
by Derek Taylor
Each member a practiced pointillist, the Masashi Harada Trio is perhaps an archetypal abstractionist aggregate. Bhob Rainey and Michael Bullock are veterans of the Boston improv scene and as such routinely traffic in the impressionist currencies Harada also seems to value. The music on this disc is a maze of sonic corridors and trap doors. Harada’s ...
Dave Burrell with Tyrone Brown: Recital
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Dave Burrell has performed with saxophonists; Archie Shepp, David Murray and in 1979, recorded a widely acclaimed jazz-opera, titled Windward Passages, as the artist is equally at home whether performing modern/free jazz or when adhering to traditionalism. Thus, Burrell is a well-balanced musician who often injects his deeply personalized methodology into a palate that often ...
Dave Burrell & Tyrone Brown: Recital
by Derek Taylor
Like the late Jaki Byard, Dave Burrell is a pianist with a broad grasp of older jazz repertoires, most strikingly those represented by Stride and Ragtime. Hybridizing these antique styles with post-bop and free elements his keyboard sound is a creative pastiche of past, present and possible future. This particular recital focuses attention on what could ...
Smoker-Magnuson-Filiano-Grassi: Large Music 2
by Derek Taylor
Picking up where its companion volume (Large Music 1) left off this second compendium of music by a formidable free-bop quartet of CIMP regulars is on par with its predecessor. Magnuson and Smoker share the principal song-crafting duties with a piece by Filiano and a surprisingly restrained collective improvisation (“Barefoot and the Bassist”) rounding out the ...
Wilber Morris & Reggie Nicholson: Drum String Thing
by Derek Taylor
Strings and skins are a combination that forms the crux of countless rhythm sections. Morris and Nicholson have been filling such a role together for years, most notably of late in the trio they share with German reedman Thomas Borgmann. This setting is different, divorced of a firmly designated melodic voice, but the music these two ...
Herb Robertson & Phil Haynes: Ritual
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter Herb Robertson has demonstrated his facility in (albeit unconventional) melodic settings. But he also has great potential for the “other" kind of improvised music. Ritual, a striking example of the latter, was performed on Leap Day, 2000. Recorded live to two-track in a darkened room lit only by candles (spooky!), he offers a tour of ...
Nils Wogram/Konrad Bauer/Dominic Duval: Serious Fun + One
by Derek Taylor
The CIMP meeting between German improvising trombonists Nils Wogram and Konrad Bauer captured on Serious Fun was one of the most unusual and satisfying entries in the label’s batch of 2000 releases. Unbeknownst to most listeners (myself included) the session that yielded that disc had an addendum. Bassist Dominic Duval, on return trip from Guelph, Ontario ...
Anthony Braxton: Ten Compositions Quartet (2000)
by Derek Taylor
Anthony Braxton carries with him many of the trappings of genius. A predilection for sudden and unexpected shifts in theoretical and praxical direction, a wholly original and often incomprehensible method of notating his ideas, a tendency to pursue individual innovations to point that many outside observers might deem excess- all of these are part of his ...
