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Claudia Quintet: For
by Troy Collins
The brainchild of percussionist John Hollenbeck, the Claudia Quintet has navigated the boundary lines between free jazz, contemporary composition, progressive rock and electronica so successfully that its output is virtually uncategorizable. For, the aptly titled fourth album from the ceaselessly inventive group, offers a slight departure from its last record. Semi-Formal (Cuneiform, 2005), used ...
Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet: Early and Late
by Troy Collins
One of the greatest front lines in modern jazz, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd were a singular force. From their earliest forays in the 1950s, Lacy and Rudd performed together regularly but recorded infrequently. Besides a handful of Black Saint/Soul Note albums from the early 1980s, there are few documents of their many ...
Graham Collier: Hoarded Dreams
by Jerry D'Souza
Great music stands the test of time. Composer/arranger/bandleader Graham Collier proves that once again with the release of Hoarded Dreams. The work was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the ninth Bracknell Jazz Festival in July 1983. Collier has sandwiched five extended parts between the introduction and the coda. They become the take-off ...
The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
by Ian Patterson
Frank Zappa once quipped that jazz wasn't dead, it just smelt funny. To many people his own highly personal brand of music also gave off a rather strange whiff at times although, since his death in 1993, his orchestral/avant-garde works have received increasingly serious consideration. At the same time Zappa's rock music has inspired a plethora ...
Mujician: There's No Going Back Now
by AAJ Italy Staff
I Mujician approdano con There’s No Going Back Now al settimo album con la consueta sensibilità improvvisativa. Diverse istanze confluiscono nel vocabolario del gruppo: dalla musica “eurocolta” al free di ispirazione afro-americana all’improvvisazione libera europea. Partita con un’introduzione densa e sostenuta, la musica si polarizza sul richiamo di cinque suoni ripetuti dal pianista, orientandosi verso un’espressività ...
Hugh Hopper: Hopper Tunity Box
by Nic Jones
In chronological terms Kevin Ayers and Hugh Hopper were the bass players in the most worthwhile editions of the British band Soft Machine, an outfit which, in the days before they became a fairly routine jazz-rock band, exhibited truly progressive ideals in terms of musical scope. Hopper left the band in 1972, and in August of ...
Far Corner: Endangered
by John Kelman
Despite efforts to change its reputation in recent years, Milwaukee, Wisconsin still seems like an odd place to find a forward-thinking group that puts the “progressive in progressive rock. Far Corner's self-titled 2004 debut demonstrated that the most wondrous music can come from the most unlikely of places, and Endangered takes things a step further. Fans ...
Harry Miller: Which Way Now
by Donald Elfman
To understand the full impact of this first-time issue of thirty year-old material, it's necessary to know what a hotbed of musical activity London was in the '60s and '70s. The city was bursting with creative energy and everything came together there--avant-garde jazz, jazz rock, international music, new music and more. One of the key figures ...
Graham Collier: Hoarded Dreams
by Nic Jones
Hindsight is arguably always a dubious benefit, but in this case it reveals that Hoarded Dreams just might be a touchstone for Graham Collier's music, more specifically the inventions for large ensembles that he's been fashioning for the last thirty-odd years. This disc was recorded at the Bracknell Jazz Festival in England in 1983, and Collier ...
Graham Collier: Graham Collier's Hoarded Dreams
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per quest'inedito di Graham Collier non è esagerato parlare di tesoro ritrovato. Nel 1983 il compositore e bandleader inglese ebbe carta bianca per presentare al festival di Bracknell una sua composizione e scegliere l'organico più adeguato per eseguirla. Collier scrisse la suite Hoarded Dreams e formò un'orchestra stellare. La sezione trombe comprendeva Kenny Wheeler, Tomasz Stanko, ...
