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Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
by Clifford Allen
Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quintet Tompkins Square 2010 In terms of surprising musical rediscoveries, 2010 has started off rather auspiciously with the first recording of reedman and composer Giuseppi Logan in over 40 years. Logan's appearances in the heady days of New York's fire music were scattered but strong ...
Andrew Cyrille: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things; Opus de Life & The Dark Tree
by Clifford Allen
Walt DickersonTell Us Only the Beautiful ThingsWhynot-Candid1975 (2009) Profound Sound TrioOpus De LifePorter2009 Horace TapscottThe Dark TreeHat Hut1991 (2009) Percussionist Andrew Cyrille ...
Thomas Lehn: Backchats and Somethingtobesaid
by Clifford Allen
Speak Easy Backchats Creative Sources 2009 John Butcher Somethingtobesaid Weight of Wax 2009 Electronic instruments have been part of improvised music for over 40 years and the availability of digital ...
Curtis Clark, Marilyn Lerner and Chad Taylor: Chasing the Piano
by Clifford Allen
November 15, 2010 will mark the 75th anniversary of the first recorded jazz piano-trio session, with pianist Jess Stacy, bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Gene Krupa recording for UK Parlophone ("Barrelhouse" and “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"). Certainly much has happened in jazz and improvised music since that date, but the piano ...
Byard Lancaster: Sounds of Liberation: New Horizons
by Clifford Allen
In the years following saxophonist John Coltrane's death and the related dearth of opportunities to perform and record the New Music stateside, a significant body of musicians relocated to Europe, to ply their art in a more receptive atmosphere. Reedman Byard Lancaster was one of the second wave of American free jazz musicians to relocate to ...
Rodrigo Amado: Motion Trio
by Clifford Allen
Abstraction is too often both separated from and associated with improvised music. Either sounds are divorced from meaning outside themselves, or expected to tell some sort of story. Neither euphemism really works that well. But image is a central fact of Portuguese improviser Rodrigo Amado's work, whether referring to the representational or nonrepresentational--after all, in addition ...
High Octane Free Improv: Adam Caine Trio & Vinny Golia/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter
by Clifford Allen
History paints an image of high energy rock music and free improvisation as having very little to do with one another--which isn't surprising considering the fact that heavily-amplified rock power trios were marketed as improvisation-heavy blues for mostly white audiences (giving saxophonist Albert Ayler short shrift). When jazz musicians like drummer Tony Williams and guitarist John ...
Harris Eisenstadt
by Clifford Allen
One normally thinks of the drummer-bandleader chair in this music as easily given to a mentality that embraces “more is more." Whether bombastic or just plain full, drummers' bands often focus on mass, rhythm and time. In the post-free arena, leaders like Gerry Hemingway, John Hollenbeck and Harris Eisenstadt have learned not only that every instrument ...
Burton Greene and Perry Robinson: Two Voices in the Desert; Groder&Greene; The Spirits at Belle's
by Clifford Allen
Perry Robinson and Burton GreeneTwo Voices in the DesertTzadik2009 Brian Groder and Burton GreeneGroder&GreeneLatham Records2009 Jimmy Bennington-Perry Robinson QuartetThe Spirits at Belle'sCadence2009
Duck Baker: Everything That Rises Must Converge; The Waltz Lesson; The Ducks Palace
by Clifford Allen
Duck Baker Everything That Rises Must Converge Mighty Quinn 2009 Duck Baker The Waltz Lesson Les Cousins 2009 Duck Baker The Ducks Palace Incus Records 2009 ...
