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Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat
by Troy Collins
A focused session of collective free improvisation conceived by pianist Russ Lossing, Metal Rat features the spontaneous interplay of three sympathetic musicians. Joined by violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser, Lossing booked a recording studio for a mere four hours to instill a “real sense of urgency" to the proceedings. The ensuing session benefits from ...
Ethan Winogrand: Tangled Tango
by Troy Collins
Drummer Ethan Winogrand's early days were spent in the punk band Joe Cool, playing alongside such innovative acts as Television, The Talking Heads, Blondie and the Ramones at New York's CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. An early interest in jazz led to a variety of side-man gigs and four years living in Copenhagen. Moving from Brooklyn ...
Shoup / Burns / Radding / Campbell: The Levitation Shuffle
by Troy Collins
Half a century into its development, free improvisation is still a risky scenario for the creative musician. Virtuosity and attentive listening skills are merely basic foundations; a willingness to subvert ego to the group is essential in any true collective. It takes musicians with sympathetic sensibilities to produce a free jazz album of truly exceptional quality. ...
Carlos Barretto Trio / Louis Sclavis: Radio Song
by Troy Collins
Portuguese bassist Carlos Barretto's 2002 recording Radio Song was originally released on the obscure CBTM label. Reissued by Clean Feed, this edition complements his 2004 album Lokomotiv (Clean Feed) with a session of highly charged, free-wheeling post-bop, spiced with traditional Portuguese folk melodies. Barretto's resume is filled with stints accompanying Mal Waldron, Barry Altschul, ...
Billy Fox: The Uncle Wiggly Suite
by Budd Kopman
In the notes to The Uncle Wiggly Suite, composer Billy Fox tells the story of the genesis of the thematic kernel that makes up the connecting thread that runs through the pieces in this suite. This fine music lives in cracks between many things: composition vs. improvisation, accessibility vs. pure expression, mainstream vs. avant-garde, consciousness vs. ...
Rob Brown Trio: Sounds
by Troy Collins
Alto saxophonist Rob Brown has been a fixture on New York's avant-garde scene for over two decades. Working closely with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey, Brown has appeared on over fifty albums, and more than a dozen as a leader or co-leader. Typically working in a piano-less quartet format on ...
Rob Brown Trio: Sounds
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Sounds is as much a mission statement as a name for the debut CD by the Rob Brown Trio. Matching his alto saxophone with Daniel Levin's cello and Satoshi Takeishi's Japanese Taiko percussion, Brown frees himself from the expectations of the standard sax-plus-rhythm trio. The textural range of the instrumentation, particularly the exotic percussion and the ...
Anthony Braxton / Joe Fonda: Duets 1995
by Troy Collins
Originally released as 10 Compositions (Duets) 1995 on the Konnex label, this reissue is one of a series of duets with bass players recorded by multi-instrumentalist / composer Anthony Braxton in the early 1990s. Preceded by 8 Duets, Hamburg 1991 (Music & Arts), with the late Peter Niklas Wilson, and Duets 1993 (Music & Arts), with ...
Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Much has been said about brevity by men who were anything but. Now, art benefits from aesthetic and compositional purity--no unnecessary lines, no superfluous words, no ostentatious displays of skill--but it is usually a byproduct of a brilliant work, not the sole purpose. Pianist Russ Lossing, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser manage dexterously to ...
Ethan Winogrand: Tangled Tango
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tangled Tango, tango aggrovigliato. Ammesso che esista un tango, ovvero la traduzione in musica della sensualità, semplice. Ma, contravvenendo al titolo dell'album, il brano di apertura è abbastanza diretto e lineare, nonchè piuttosto distante dal tango. Poi, con il susseguirsi dei brani, l'album acquisisce in complessità, merce rara nelle composizioni dei batteristi, solitamente più focalizzati sugli ...
