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Rosella Washington & Tyrone Brown: Rosellla: A Good Place To Start
by Derek Taylor
The line-up on this disc is likely to puzzle most listeners familiar with previous entries in the CIMP catalog. Those seeking fiery rendered free jazz rife with ecstatic energy or obliquely sculpted chamber resonances will find their initial apprehensions realized. This may not be an expected CIMP date, but it’s not the first to showcase the ...
Herb Robertson & Phil Haynes: Ritual
by Derek Taylor
Extended length duo recordings aren’t exactly a scarcity in modern improvised music, but this set effectively raises a high bar nonetheless, both in terms of difficulty and nonidiomatic artistry. Recorded hours after the quartet session that yielded Brooklyn-Berlin (CIMP 221) the disc divides the earlier group down to the creative core of Robertson and Haynes. The ...
Ori Kaplan Trio Plus: Delirium
by Derek Taylor
Sterility and stagnation are a bane of creative improvised music and working with the common color scheme of acoustic instruments it can sometimes be a challenging task finding something new to say. Ori Kaplan, a young but significantly talented saxophonist based in Brooklyn, has hatched upon an interesting variation on the trio form to combat potential ...
Resonance Impeders: Briggan Krauss - Chris Dahlgren - Jay Rosen: At All Costs Unknown
by Glenn Astarita
The “Resonance Impeders” represents a modern jazz/improvisational troupe willing to seek out previously uncharted musical frontiers. Simply put, alto saxophonist Briggan Krausse, bassist Chris Dahlgren and drummer Jay Rosen are among the best and brightest of a genre that some are now referring to as the – “new music”. These chaps continue to reinvent the tried ...
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 ...
Phil Haynes - Herb Robertson 5tet: Brooklyn - Berlin
by Glenn Astarita
Additional accolades would seem redundant for this improvising crew! On Brooklyn – Berlin drummer Phil Haynes and trumpeter Herb Robertson spearhead a “5tet” featuring multi-reedmen Ned Rothenberg and Vinny Golia along with the always solid bassist Ken Filiano for a set brimming with emotional interplay, temperate themes and cunning improv. On “Kiss Principle”, Haynes launches the ...
Phil Haynes- Herb Robertson 5tet: Brooklyn-Berlin
by Derek Taylor
Haynes and Robertson are erstwhile leaders on this outing, but a steadfast sense of group administration pervades the entire program. Clarinets play a pivotal role in he music and virtually every bud on the branch of that particular reed family is represented in instrument inventories of Rothenberg and Golia. Paired with the brittle corrugated brass of ...
Ken Simon Quartet: Another Side
by Derek Taylor
Bob Rusch is a brutally honest man. As front man for Cadence magazine he calls things like he sees them staunchly leaving gloss and platitudes at the door. In like fashion his unflinching faith in the individual artistry of the musicians he documents on his CIMP label is directly manifest in the much-maligned minimalist recording techniques ...
Resonance Impeders: At All Costs Unknown
by Derek Taylor
Three in stature, but with a pan-directional sound that belies their number the Resonance Impeders are emblematic of the New York Downtown scene. As the Knitting Factory (one of their favorite haunts) proudly proclaims in it’s marketing literature- “Downtown is more than a zip code.” It’s a veritable improvisatory microcosm- a state of mind AND a ...
