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Don Cherry: Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966
by Clifford Allen
Don Cherry Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966 ESP Disk (1966) 2007 A little over a year after trumpeter/composer Don Cherry debuted his European quintet in Rome and Paris, resulting in a brief return to New York and the beginning of a short-lived Blue Note recording contract, he reconvened his multi-national ...
Adam Lane & Ken Vandermark: 4 Corners and New Magical Kingdom
by Clifford Allen
Scandinavian cooperative trio The Thing is one of the more recent exponents of a hybridization of the visceral energies of free music and R&B-tinged punk rock. Such a meeting of genres may not be as strange as one might think. The group's reedman, Swede Mats Gustafsson, played in hardcore and punk outfits in his teens, and ...
Free Instrumentation: From The Appalachians To The Alps
by Clifford Allen
Free improvisation, in its varied processes of evolution, has given rise not only to new ways of playing traditional instruments (piano, reeds or bass) but also the possibilities of engaging non-traditional (jazz) instruments in equally new contexts. Much as using latex, earth or the body in visual art came to prevalence in the late 1960s, so ...
Allen Lowe: Jews In Hell/Radical Jewish Acculturation
by Clifford Allen
Allen Lowe Jews In Hell: Radical Jewish Acculturation Spaceout Records 2007 Art critic Clement Greenberg once offered a useful explanation of the task of modernism. To paraphrase rather liberally, Greenberg wrote that a modernist work must engage and self-criticize its own basic tenets and those of its chosen medium--not as ...
Ornette Coleman: Sound Catalyst
by Clifford Allen
Catalyst (n.)--an agent that facilitates a change.Catalysis (n.)--the action or effect of a substance in increasing the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed. --Shorter Oxford English DictionaryWhile change occurs all around, the agent stands apart, its own dynamism existing somewhere askance from the rest of the world. Though Picasso had ...
Roswell Rudd: Blown Bone
by Clifford Allen
Trombonist and composer Roswell Rudd's third decade on the modern jazz scene showed listeners something more than a robust Archie Shepp sideman or a co-leader of the New York Art Quartet. For those accomplishments alone he would have been revered, but the '70s saw his palette expand into orchestral composition and varied long-form suites, as well ...
Soft Machine: Middle Earth Masters
by Clifford Allen
In recent years, followers of the Soft Machine have had a boon of documents that have shown the band's continual refinement as a jazz-rock juggernaut. Most of the live performances that have surfaced have been the “classic early '70s quartet with bassist Hugh Hopper, organist/electric pianist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean and drummer Robert Wyatt. The ...
Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
by Clifford Allen
It's been a decade since the last bounty of Ornette recordings. 1995-96 saw releases from his free-funk mélange Prime Time; a robust quartet with pianist Geri Allen and bassist Charnett Moffett; and duets with pianist Joachim Kühn, a German free music architect. Indeed, the past three decades have seen an inordinate amount of change for Coleman's ...
Solo Trumpet: More is More; Solo Works for Trumpet & Flugelhorn
by Clifford Allen
Peter Evans More is More PSI Records 2006 Kelly Pratt Solo Works for Trumpet & Flugelhorn Sachimay Interventions 2006 Compared to the postwar saxophone lineage, the path ...
Bridge 61 and Farina/McBride/Gray: The Now & The Never-Heard-Before
by Clifford Allen
To some, what was so interesting and valuable about the nascent North Side Chicago scene in the early to mid 1990s had less to do with particular players than the fact that the scene was about cross-pollination. Figures like reedman Ken Vandermark could be heard amongst the riotous neo-No Wave band The Flying Luttenbachers one night, ...
