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Michael Dessen / Cosmologic: Between Shadow and Space / Eyes in the Back of My Head
by Clifford Allen
Somehow it's not at all surprising to read in Michael Dessen's bio that he studied with trombonist George Lewis and pianist Anthony Davis, two of this music's most well known academes. Dessen is a trombonist, composer-improviser and scholar who explores new media arts, the internet and cross-cultural migration through sound. Improvised music has a hard time ...
Chris McGregor: Up To Earth
by Clifford Allen
This archival release of South African pianist-composer Chris McGregor's music was recorded in 1969, ostensibly as a follow-up to the Blue Notes' Very Urgent (Polydor, 1968), also reissued by Fledg'ling. It serves as somewhat of a missing link between the Euro-African free jazz of their debut and the township and kwela-inflected big band looseness of the ...
Guitar and Drums Duos: Derek Bailey/Tony Oxley, Mark O'Leary/Han Bennink, Mary Halvorson/Weasel Walter
by Clifford Allen
Tony Oxley and Derek Bailey The Advocate Tzadik 2007 Mark O'Leary and Han Bennink Television Ayler Records 2008 Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter Opulence UG Explode ...
Orange: In the Midst of Chaos
by Clifford Allen
Jazz and improvised music have long held a certain appeal for fans of underground and outside art. Those who cut their teeth on the Fugs and protest music of the '60s found similar yelps offered among the jewels of the ESP-Disk catalog, and post-riot French students found solidarity (if briefly) with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. ...
A Power Stronger Than Itself
by Clifford Allen
A Power Stronger Than Itself George E. Lewis Hardcover; 690 pages ISBN: 0226476952 University of Chicago Press 2008 A long time coming, George Lewis' AACM tome is an in-depth socio-musicological study of a cooperative of musicians, the economic and political factors that gave rise to its ...
Albert Ayler: New York Eye and Ear Control
by Clifford Allen
Even in a form of music as decidedly left-of-center as “free jazz," a canon of musicians and works has been built. This canon is essentially based upon easily-obtainable recordings rather than a history that falls to documents, primary sources and musical meetings that went commercially unrecorded. A case in point: American creative large ensembles of the ...
Chris McGregor: Eclipse at Dawn and Very Urgent
by Clifford Allen
In the spoken introduction to the latest archival recording from pianist Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath, emcee Ronnie Scott quips that “South Africa is a wonderful place...to come from." The audience at the 1971 Berlin Jazztage responds with uneasy laughter at Scott's thinly-veiled politics, then cheers as Dudu Pukwana tartly comments with his horn. ...
New Chicago Underground: Jason Adasiewicz and Tigersmilk
by Clifford Allen
It is sometimes said that what separates Chicago from other music towns is a wide-open expansiveness in the music's sound, as compared to the condensed urbanity of New Yorkers. But something more poignant comes through when talking with some Chicago musicians--that no matter what the subset, there's a feeling that the Chicago playing field is a ...
Lisle Ellis: Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat
by Clifford Allen
Painter, graffitist and collagist Jean-Michel Basquiat was an unmistakable force in New York during the late '70s and into the '80s, certainly the latter decade's first American art stars and one of the art world's first black stars. Initially known by his tag SAMO (referencing both Sambo and “Same Old..."), he was championed by Warhol for ...
Mike Taylor: Pendulum
by Clifford Allen
The jazz world is certainly littered with its share of unheralded greats who died too young, but even in the world of Sonny Clarks and Wardell Grays, there are those whose recorded legacy is almost nil--ever heard of Jack Graham or Ric Colbeck? English pianist and composer Mike Taylor is among the latter category; his two ...
