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China Jungle
By Pierre D
Label: Dacapo Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Peking Jungle; china Jungle; Dragon Dance; Feng Huang, Magic Mystery Moon; Fou Fou Zong; Yuyuan Garden; Lions of Shanghai; Kunninggong; Sunshine Highway; Clear as a Bell; Siberian Tiger; the Master Comes; Lang Tung Ting; Welcome to China Jungle. (Total Playing Time 62:39).
Live In Concert: Fit As A Fiddle
Label: Dacapo Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Running Wild, Bye Bye Blackbird, Take Off Blues, I Loves You Porgy, Wrapping It Up, Groove Merchant, Latino, Columbine Polka Mazurka, The Mooch, Prelude to a Kiss, Night In Tunsia.
The Orchestra: Noxx
by Jack Bowers
For those who’d rather chew and digest their helpings of big–band Jazz slowly and carefully instead of gulping down a series of low–calorie riffs and shout choruses, here’s a lavish spread ably prepared by The Orchestra from beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark. The seven compositions, all by members of the band or director / tenor saxophonist Henrik Frisk, ...
OK Nok...Kongo: Moonstone Journey
by David Adler
On Moonstone Journey, the fine Danish avant-gardists of OK Nok...Kongo play compositions by an American expatriate and Coltrane/Shepp alum, saxophonist John Tchicai. The Danish expression “OK Nok" roughly translates to “A-OK," and “Kongo" is the African nation from which Tchicai’s father hailed. Joined by Tchicai himself, the group sets out to explore the elliptic space between ...
The Crossover Ensemble: The River: Images of Time and Life
by Glenn Astarita
Coinciding with the upcoming Danish Jazz Festival to be held in and around the New York City area we find yet another fine recording from a group of young Danes who look to enhance the already impressive catalogue of Danish-based Dacapo Records. The River: Image of Time and Life is a noteworthy new effort from “The ...
OK Nok...Kongo: Moonstone Journey
by C. Michael Bailey
The Calm Center. Saxophone...How Close to Wynton, err...Ellington. In 1965, Down Beat magazine described John Tchicai as, “A Calm Voice of the Avant-Garde”. The mid ‘60s was the heyday of Free Jazz with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Archie Schepp, and the list goes on. Not unlike the Second Viennese School and their 12-tone system, ...
Music of John Tchicai played by Ok Nok..Kongo: Moonstone Journey
by Glenn Astarita
The highly revered saxophonist-composer John Tchicai has performed with larger than life jazz icons such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp and was a member of the now legendary “New York Art Quartet”. Besides his long-standing influence on the avant-garde scene, Tchicai has been actively involved in the burgeoning Danish “modern jazz” scene. Spirited contributions to Pierre ...
Kim Kristensen: PULSE OF TIME
by AAJ Staff
Due to it’s heavy reliance on synthesizers, flute, and electronic percussion, it would be simple for the casual jazz listener to dismiss this recording as progressive rock, ambient (whatever that term means anymore), or at worst “new age.” But these judgements would be hasty and inappropriate. Although PULSE OF TIME certainly resides on the fringes of ...
Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra: Giraf
by Glenn Astarita
Giraf is the latest from the always excellent “New Jungle Orchestra". Here, along with guitarist and bandleader Pierre Dorge, NJO explore some adventurous left-of-center frontiers, which could mark a new beginning for this band. On Giraf Dorge enlists some talented guest artists which include the highly regarded saxophonist John Tchicai along with Achille Succi (bass clarinet), ...
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