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Sean Conly: Re:Action
by Clifford Allen
Bassist Sean Conly is an extraordinarily busy player, perhaps somewhat of a yeoman--he's worked with figures as diverse in approach as the violinists Sam Bardfeld and Regina Carter. But if he has a particular mettle, it might just be in the unruly, driving and highly plastic music of this ensemble. Conly, saxists Michael Attias and Tony ...
Memorize The Sky: In Former Times
by Clifford Allen
Reedman Matt Bauder, percussionist Aaron Siegel and bassist Zach Wallace have worked together for almost a decade, but In Former Times, recorded live in Austria at the Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, is only their second full-length disc. Siegel is, in addition to applying his pared-down kit of snare, bass drum and vibes to this recording, a composer of ...
Weasel Walter: Oculus ex Abyssus and Firestorm
by Clifford Allen
In the nearly fifty years that have passed since saxophonist Ornette Coleman recorded the double quartet Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960), freedom has become a relatively accepted approach to practicing improvisation and composition. So much so that a group like the Vandermark Five, which has its own history, can record four volumes of Free Jazz Classics (Atavistic, ...
Louis Moholo: with the Chris McGregor Trio and Marilyn Crispell
by Clifford Allen
When the Blue Notes--pianist Chris McGregor, drummer Louis Moholo, bassist Johnny Dyani, trumpeter Mongezi Feza and altoist Dudu Pukwana--brought their mixture of bebop and kwela from South Africa to England in 1967, it didn't take long for the quintet to join forces with some of the more adventurous players in London, a mutually beneficial climate that ...
Joe Morris: What You Can Throw & The Story of Mankind
by Clifford Allen
When guitarist Joe Morris began playing contrabass in outfits with alto saxophonist Rob Brown, drummer Whit Dickey and others at the beginning of the 2000s, it might have struck some as a surprise. But whatever the differences in requirements between those two instruments, Morris' central axis as both player and composer is rhythm birthing ...
Porter Records: A Collector's Rewards
by Clifford Allen
In a review of discs released by recently arrived Porter Records, I was struck by the diversity of sounds found within this quartet of releases. A reissue of reedman Byard Lancaster's free jazz classic, Live at Macalester College alongside the modal psychedelia of trumpeter Ted Daniel's Tapestry doesn't seem too hard to fathom, but put those ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah
by Clifford Allen
Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa Records 2008 One of the significant things that set AACM music apart from its brethren in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s was its use of space, of opening up the music so that things could occur within broad, environmental ...
Elton Dean / Steve Miller Trio / Soft Heap: British genre-benders
by Clifford Allen
Though non-idiomatic is a term often thrown around when referring to post-1960s British improvisation, the more apt one might be cross-idiomatic, insofar as significant players have worked across genres with regularity. Take alto saxophonist Elton Dean, for example. He was part of the three-horn front line of pianist Keith Tippett's group, which was co-opted by the ...
The Flying Luttenbachers: Trauma
by Clifford Allen
Trauma originally came out in 2001 as a double LP set on drummer Weasel Walter's ugExplode label. Named as an obscure homage to a founding member, multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell, the Flying Luttenbachers recorded sixteen albums in as many years of existence (ceasing in 2007). Though initiated by Walter and Russell, the group was always Walter's 'baby/chief ...
Paul Rutherford: Solo in Berlin 1975
by Clifford Allen
From the 27th to the 31st of March, 1975 the FMP label held its Workshop Freie Musik at the Berlin Academy of Art, and among usual suspects Alexander von Schlippenbach and the Globe Unity Orchestra, the festival held various aggregations for brass instrumentalists, in groups and as soloists. Among the trombone soloists, whose performances lasted approximately ...
