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Dream of - - - -
By Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Kalaparush
Marshall Allen Quartet Featuring Mark Whitecage: Mark-n-Marshall: Monday
by AAJ Staff
It’s taken the legendary alto player Marshall Allen 50 years to record his debut as a leader – he first recorded with saxophonist James Moody in 1949 – but it was worth the wait. As anyone who’s seen Allen snapping his fingers and bobbing his head on his regular gig with the Sun Ra Arkestra can ...
Jay Rosen Quartet: Canticles For The New Millennium
by Glenn Astarita
Jay Rosen is rapidly becoming a drummer of choice within New York City’s fertile modern jazz/improv scene. Rosen has been involved on numerous sessions for the C.I.M.P label despite the fact that the liners indicate he is not the house drummer for the label. Yet the artist mans the helm on this recent release titled, Canticles ...
Luther Thomas Quintet: Realities: Old & New
by Derek Taylor
Luther Thomas plays and speaks from the gut and his unequivocal artistic integrity becomes immediately apparent whether it’s projected through his horn or by way of written word. Add to this that he’s managed to balance a reverence for jazz tradition with freer proclivities and an indication of what’s in store on this disc should begin ...
Jay Rosen Quartet: Canticles for the New Millennium
by Derek Taylor
Rosen continues his victory streak with this new offering from CIMP. Remarkably it’s his debut as a leader even though his drums have fueled sessions numbering well into the double digits. Throughout the lengthy program of pieces derived from his own fecund intellect his drum kit and percussive accessories are right up front recorded with crystal ...
Andrew Cheshire: Relax, Keep the Tension Please
by Derek Taylor
For better or worse the CIMP imprint is burdened with great deal of baggage stemming from their stubborn adherence to certain self-imposed philosophical and methodological parameters. In addition to the controversial recording techniques they employ on their sessions the label also has a reputation for myopically centering on the freer strains of creative improvised music. An ...
Dominic Duval: Anniversary
by Derek Taylor
For a bassist operating well beyond of the gaze of the illuminating pop culture limelight Dominic Duval has managed to keep surprisingly busy throughout his career. Prestigious gigs with the likes of Cecil Taylor and Joe McPhee just keep cropping up at his doorstep and he’s managed to record an incredibly prolific body of work (admittedly ...
Wright/ Marsh / Rainey/ F. Lonberg-Holm: The Darkest Corner, The Most Conspicuous
by Derek Taylor
Free improvisation is one of the most mutable modes of musical expression around. Under its auspices anything is possible. But hand in hand with freedom is a frequent malleability of group membership- rare are the freely improvising ensembles that stay together for the long haul. The music demands and depends on constant reinvention and reevaluation, two ...
Ehran Elisha Ensemble: The Lowdown
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer Ehran Elisha is the agitator on this recent release titled, The Lowdown. Essentially, the “Ehran Elisha Ensemble” covers a wide spectrum of what one might expect from a crew of New York City based improvisers as the drummer/leader steers the band onward via his bustling and unwavering approach to meter. Yet one of the distinct ...
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