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John Blum Astrogeny Quartet: Astrogeny
by Clifford Allen
Bassist William Parker is known for his telepathic collaborations with percussionists; of late, his work with Hamid Drake has become an in-demand support system. Unfortunately not as well known or historically revered was his longtime partnership with free-percussion architect Denis Charles, which lasted from the '70s until Charles' death in 1998. Recordings such as Parker's Through ...
Peter Brotzmann: Schwarzwaldfahrt, Alarm and Pica Pica
by Clifford Allen
Peter Brötzmann/Han Bennink Schwarzwaldfahrt Atavistic 2006 Peter Brötzmann Alarm Atavistic 2006 Peter Brötzmann/Albert Mangelsdorff/Günter “Baby" Sömmer Pica Pica Atavistic 2006
Steve Lacy: Conversations
by Clifford Allen
Conversations Jason Weiss, Ed. Softcover; 289 pages ISBN: 0822338157 Duke University Press 2006 As a student of Art History a few years ago, I was always fascinated at the depth that books of artists' writings and interviews reached. Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollock, Michael Snow--no ...
Out of Chicago: Maghostut Trio, Roscoe Mitchell Trio, Hamid Drake
by Clifford Allen
Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) started as an outgrowth of pianist/clarinetist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams' Experimental Band in the mid 1960s. Back then few domestic labels were willing to take a chance on this sparse, tense variant of free jazz, with its radical instrumental combinations. Chicago blues and traditional jazz imprint Delmark and ...
Lina Nyberg & Daisy: Alternative Sweden
by Clifford Allen
Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar's Moserobie label is offering listeners a different fix on the Swedish jazz landscape than the one they've more often been given over the past few years. Drummer Kjell Nordeson, reedmen Mats Gustafsson and Martin Küchen, among other noteworthy players, have tended to paint a picture of Sweden as a full-on “free region. ...
Jonas Kullhammar: Son of a Drummer
by Clifford Allen
Over the past several years, jazz fans have been quite lucky to hear a significant amount of new work from Scandinavian improvisers. However, most of the Scandinavian improvisers who have cracked the international jazz scene are committed to free improvisation. Those who embrace more traditional roots, while still dedicated to pushing at the boundaries of those ...
Ted Daniel: Ted Daniel Sextet
by Clifford Allen
Fragile fragments and brittle smears make up much of the trumpet's language in creative music, and the 1970s saw an influx of important voices on the instrument, expanding on the innovations of their reed-playing brethren. Among them were Earl Cross, Raphe Malik, Eddie Gale, Butch Morris and Ted Daniel, a childhood friend of Sonny Sharrock who ...
Atavistic Records: Down Beats and No Wave
by Clifford Allen
Imagining approaches to music as seemingly incompatible as free improvisation, minimalism, post-punk, noise, jazz and agit-ambient soundscapes brought together under one roof is a difficult proposition. It's uncommon in the music world for a label to have a vision that not only stretches across such boundaries, but is also totally in love with all sorts of ...
Borah Bergman / Lol Coxhill / Paul Hession: Acts of Love
by Clifford Allen
The number of piano/reeds/percussion trios in the history of improvised music can probably be counted on a single hand, but some of them have been highly influential. Cecil Taylor's trio recorded such a set in 1962 at the Café Montmartre in Copenhagen, the entrée into free percussion beginning with Sunny Murray's fragmented bebop impulsions as Taylor ...
Soft Machine: Grides
by Clifford Allen
Soft Machine Grides Cuneiform 2006 1970 was a banner year for the Soft Machine. Their profile amongst the European avant-garde jazz and psychedelic rock communities was raised by a headline-grabbing gig at the Proms, the British music establishment's annual celebration of, in the main, classical and symphonic composition and performance. ...
