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Nels Cline: Acoustic Guitar Trio & Gauci/Cline/Filiano/Pride
by Clifford Allen
Acoustic Guitar Trio Vignes Long Song Records 2009 Stephen Gauci/Nels Cline/Ken Filiano/Mike Pride Red Feast Cadence Jazz Records 2009 Guitarist Nels Cline is so recognized as a force in contemporary ...
Nathan Davis: The Best of Nathan Davis '65-'76
by Clifford Allen
Nathan Davis The Best of Nathan Davis '65-'76 Jazzman 2009 The concept of a “Best Of" album seems like it should be set aside for those musicians who have entered the popular consciousness to the degree that a sampler disc would be an easy sell. In jazz, canonical ...
Vinnie Sperrazza: Peak Inn
by Clifford Allen
The piano trio is a medium that became immensely popular with Bill Evans' meteoric rise on the international scene in the '50s and has remained an astonishingly equilateral creative outlet for an extraordinary array of harmonic and rhythmic complexity. However, there aren't a lot of groups taking the chances available to them, instead mining the standard ...
Nate Wooley: Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing and Crackleknob
by Clifford Allen
Two recent discs featuring trumpeter-composer Nate Wooley explore improvisational language through non-traditional approaches, both collective and solo. Some of that expansion includes electronics and electro-acoustic blur, such as on Throw Down Your Hammer and Sing (joining Wooley with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and bassist Jason Roebke). Unisons and parallels also factor in both of these drummerless trios, ...
Solidarity Unit, Inc.: Red Black & Green
by Clifford Allen
Solidarity Unit, Inc. Red Black & Green Eremite 2009 Though it certainly had an impact on the landscape of creative music in the 1970s and 1980s as well as it does today, the vanguard improvisation scene in St. Louis isn't as discussed as it should be. The Black Artists Group ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach, Aki Takase and Rudi Mahall: Betting on Tradition
by Clifford Allen
European improvisation began to set itself apart when it built its own tradition, drawing from folk forms and concert music rather than providing provincial answers to questions posed by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk or Duke Ellington. Of course, all these figures factored into the music of players like trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, drummer Gil Cuppini and reed ...
Cleve Pozar: The Web of Percussion
by Clifford Allen
It has become somewhat commonplace in the past few years for improvising musicians who made names for themselves in the New York underground (and who have since dropped out of the scene) to make something of a comeback. These comebacks are welcome to those of us who didn't get a chance to see their work in ...
Give The Cellist Some: Okkyung Lee / Daniel Levin / Peggy Lee / Alexander von Schlippenbach
by Clifford Allen
The cello has become somewhat like the bass clarinet in jazz--there are a significant number of practitioners on the instrument, yet it still wears the flag of rarity quite proudly. Even if it hasn't been prominent, the instrument still has a long history in jazz, most notably beginning with Oscar Pettiford and Calo Scott in the ...
Joe Morris: MVP LSD, Elm City Duets, High Definition and Rejuvenation
by Clifford Allen
Joe Morris/Jon Voigt/Tom Plsek The Graphic Scores of Lowell Skinner Davidson Riti 2009 Joe Morris/Barre Phillips Elm City Duets Clean Feed 2008 Joe Morris Bass Quartet High Definition ...
Sunny Murray: Big Chief
by Clifford Allen
Sunny Murray Big Chief Eremite Records 2009 American jazzmen have long called Paris something of a second home, due to a perceived promise of more work and cultural acceptance. The lineage in this music can be traced to artists like reed player Sidney Bechet, who called the city ...
