Results for "CIMP Records"

Tyrone Hill Quartet: Out of the Box

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

Big bands have had a long history serving as spawning grounds for smaller jazz collectives. Leaders such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie encouraged their players to form into compact groups outside the needs of the larger bands. Curiously, unlike the rosters of other big bands such as the Ellington and Basie Orchestras, the Sun Ra ...

Fasteau/Howard/Few: Expatriate Kin

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

Despite jazz’s current recognition in many scholarly circles as one of America’s only original art forms the music’s practitioners haven’t always enjoyed such prestigious accolades. The fact that so many jazz musicians were forced to seek solace on foreign shores during the 50s, 60s and 70s as a respite from the indifference (and even hostility) afforded ...

Claude Lawrence Trio: Presenting...

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

CIMP is easily the most prolific creative improvised music label in existence. They’ve issued one hundred releases in just over three years and their fecundity shows no signs of slowing down. One of the most commendable aspects of their catalog is that alongside the expected numbers of discs by musicians whose names are familiar to followers ...

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Papa's Bounce

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

African heritage and culture has been a fundamental facet of jazz music since its beginnings. The earliest rags of Buddy Bolden’s era were infused with variants of these traditions just as today’s creative Black music relies upon them for similar sustenance and direction. Few musicians reference these traditions as seriously and reverently as Chicagoan Kahil El’Zabar. ...

Burton Greene Trio: Throptics

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

A key ingredient in creative improvised music is willingness on the part of the musician to embrace experimentation. Improvisation by nature demands that the improviser be receptive to new and spontaneous creation. Burton Greene has exemplified this fundamental facet of the improvisers’ credo throughout his nearly four decades in jazz. At times his experiments have resulted ...

Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre Trio: Dream of - - - -

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) will be celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. The Chicago-based collective’s contributions to creative improvised music are immeasurable. As a continuous advocate and outlet for creative cultural expression the AACM ranks at the top of musical collectives both in terms of longevity and quality of purpose. Though ...

Bruce Eisenbeil's Crosscurrent Trio: Mural

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2000

Improvising guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil’s acute vision and authoritative control of his instrument is conveyed in gleaming fashion on this live Trio date titled, Mural. He’s been creating a buzz around the New York City area since emerging on the modern jazz scene a few years back as a complex musician who integrates buzz saw like single ...

Saunters, Walks, Ambles

By Patrick Brennan

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Crepuscule with Nellie; bucket-a-blood; Misterioso; saunter, walk, amble: 1. elsewise / 2. far elseway / 3. blootzway / 4. sweet flat; Misterioso ;ornithine; teletropic; Expression; Nonaah; precipining; Chronology; backAtchya

Research On the Edge

By Mark Whitecage

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: The Brook, Green St. Rundown, Lake Effect, Well, You Needn

The Watermelon Suite

By Joe McPhee

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Points, The Watermelon Suite: part 1- The Whole, part 2- The Rind, part 3- The Meat, Part 4- The Seeds, Wecotdo parts 1 & 2, Soundboard Safari, Solero, A Ballad in Their Own Way, Putter Piece, My Funny Valentine.

Recorded at the Spirit Room, Rossie, New York, May 26 & 27, 1998.

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