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Michael Blake: Right Before Your Very Ears
by Michael McCaw
Opening with an overblown tenor sound that nearly causes your stereo system to clip, Right Before Your Very Ears marks a departure for Michael Blake, especially from his earlier output. Recorded in Brooklyn following a European tour which culminated at Portugal's Coimbra Jazz Festival, the album is comprised entirely of first takes (save for “Fly With ...
James Finn: Plaza De Toros
by AAJ Staff
Plaza De Toros is a portrait of a bullfight rendered in free jazz terms. That description may sound almost absurd, but the music itself, with its power and its use of idiomatic Spanish harmonic material, carries the passion of its subject matter in direct fashion. James Finn plays the tenor saxophone, and he plays ...
Dennis Gonzalez's Spirit Meridian: Idle Wild
by Mark Corroto
The second Dennis Gonzalez sighting on the Portuguese Clean Feed label solidifies his reputation with some remarkable writing and playing. He retains only drummer Michael Thompson from his first outing, NY Midnight Suite (2004). This studio session finds him in good company with bassist Fen Filiano and saxophonist Oliver Lake. The Texan trumpeter has ...
Gerry Hemingway: The Whimbler
by Mark Corroto
Gerry Hemingway's second release on Clean Feed changes a couple of musical partners, but it keeps that critical vibe alive. Hemingway retains tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin from Devil's Paradise (2003) but replaces bassist Mark Dresser with Mark Helias and swaps out Ray Anderson's trombone for Herb Robertson's trumpet. This new quartet replaces original voices ...
Gerry Hemingway: The Whimbler
by Derek Taylor
Dream team assemblages are fairly regular occurrences in New York City-baseed improvisatory music. With so much talent operating in such a relatively small territory, the odds of a favorite players teaming up remain strongly favorable. Such alchemy is apparent in abundance on Gerry Hemingway's new project for Clean Feed, one that builds on the standing foundation ...
James Finn: Plaza de Toros
by Mark Corroto
I heard a voice, or thought I heard a voice, say something in my ear as I dreamed during the first spin of saxophonist James Finn's new recording. “There is plenty room in my father's house, announced the jazz prophet. “You see improvisation, 'true improvisation' makes room for one more voice calling out into the night. ...
James Finn Trio: Plaza de Toros
by Jeff Stockton
Last year, after a stint in Ben Harper's band, tenor man James Finn sprang onto the jazz scene at the age of nearly forty as a fully-formed free improviser, with a trio completed by bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Whit Dickey. Opening the Gates (Cadence Records) was quickly followed by Faith in a Seed (CIMP), the ...
Charles Gayle: Shout!
by Dennis Hollingsworth
Charles Gayle is without question one of the most intriguing figures in modern jazz today. His powerful, free, and onerous style defies easy categorization. His background as a vagabond New York street musician adds mystique, like the Renaissance artists who toiled without financial reward while pushing the envelope of art and music beyond conventional boundaries. He ...
Z: A Jazzar No Zeca
by Elliott Simon
Internationally renowned bassist, composer, and musical director Zé Eduardo has been a seminal figure and a long-time fixture on the Portuguese jazz landscape. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the end of Portuguese rightist rule, he pays tribute to the songs of José Afonso with A Jazzar No Zeca. To begin to ...
Ravish Momin: Climbing the Banyan Tree
by Clifford Allen
For his second date as a leader in five years, drummer Ravish Momin has assembled a trio with a truly diverse range of interests and a value expanding on much of the Afro-Asian influence that has entered the jazz canon. Late of Kalaparush and The Light and the groups of reedman Sabir Mateen, Momin studied tabla ...
