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Jenny Scheinman: 12 Songs
by Jerry D'Souza
Jenny Scheinman has a gift for writing evocative music. She explores different genres and comes up with an interesting take on each, drawing the listener into the core of its spirit. There is more to this music than just the compositions. The musicians forge their own atmosphere, each divining the play in extrapolating the base. And ...
Jenny Scheinman: 12 Songs
by John Kelman
From the opening notes of 12 Songs, it becomes clear why Jenny Scheinman has been guitarist Bill Frisell's violinist of choice for the past couple of years. It's more than being a good player--although she's very, very good. It's more about a shared sensibility that allows for liberal cross-pollination of genres, and a less-is-more approach to ...
Scott Amendola Band: Believe
by Michael McCaw
With instrumentation that includes up to 26 reverberating strings accompanying a drum kit, Scott Amendola's Believe has a lot of resonance. Comprised of Jenny Scheinman (violin), Nels Cline and Jeff Parker (guitars), John Shifflett (bass), and Amendola (drums, percussion and electronics); the album should stand as a high water mark for all types of music this ...
Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney: Time Changes
by Brian P. Lonergan
Listening to bassist Mark Dresser and pianist Denman Maroney's Time Changes is often like being in a car with someone trying to learn stick shift--smooth coasting is interrupted by sudden lurches, premature downshifts, or unexpected accelerations. To the musicians' credit, though, the music never stalls. By creating tension with so many rhythmically off-kilter sections, the passages ...
Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney: Time Changes
by John Kelman
Since emerging in the mid-'80s alongside artists like woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer Anthony Braxton, drummer Gerry Hemingway, and trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Dresser has combined a frightening command of his instrument that includes all manner of extended techniques with a remarkably musical approach that often makes greater sense of the more outré artists with whom he's often ...
Scott Amendola Band: Believe
by John Kelman
Scott Amendola may be a drummer, but he loves guitars, which he made perfectly clear on his first two releases. Scott Amendola Band (2000) featured guitarist Dave McNabb, while his first Cryptogramophone release, Cry (2003), found him teaming up with Nels Cline, with whom he also works in the guitarist's band, the Nels Cline Singers. But ...
Scott Amendola Band: Believe
by AAJ Staff
A quick look at the personnel on this record should make two things clear right away, before you even hit play. First, the assorted misfits in the collection, who have worked in a mind-blowing array of improvised and experimental music styles, aren't likely to be pinned down or categorized here any more than they are elsewhere. ...
Alex Cline/Kaoru/Miya Masaoka/G.E. Stinson: Cloud Plate
by Peter Aaron
While Wilco guitarist Nels Cline may now be a household name to the indie rock world, his twin brother, drummer Alex Cline, like Nels, has been a respected player on the LA new music scene since the late '70s. But as long as Alex maintains the same high standard of innovation that's all over this terrific ...
Alan Pasqua: My New Old Friend
by Dennis Hollingsworth
On the inside cover of My New Old Friend, pianist Alan Pasqua writes that the music is intended to give the listener “a place to rest for a while." This new disc from the veteran is delicately presented to be sure, as subtlety is the key principal at work throughout the set. Joined by bassist Darek ...
Alan Pasqua: My New Old Friend
by Glenn Astarita
When he was a member of drummer Tony Williams' jazz/fusion Lifetime unit back in the 1970s, pianist Alan Pasqua frequently conveyed a delicate touch when performing on electric keys. Yet after all these years, he is first and foremost a jazz pianist. With his latest piano trio effort, Pasqua garners sensitive support from the top-flight rhythm ...
