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Aaron Irwin: Blood and Thunder
by Dan McClenaghan
Blood and Thunder sounds like a title that Bob Dylan would give to one of his albums--a mixture of Blood on the Tracks (Columbia Records, 1975) and “Thunder on the Mountain," the opening cut on Modern Times (Columbia Records, 2006). But alto saxophonist Aaron Irwin--thirty years old, bespectacled and white shirt-and-tied in the mode of early ...
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Heat Wave
by Dan McClenaghan
Ever prolific avant-garde jazz pianist Satoko Fujii has put together yet another band. She fronts numerous ensembles: a dynamic piano trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, the trio Junk Box, with drummer Jim Hollenbeck and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, big bands in New York and Japan, a powerful rock steeped quartet and a bunch ...
Wolfert Brederode: Currents
by Dan McClenaghan
The word “aesthetic" is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as: “Of or pertaining to the sense of the beautiful." That word is often paired with the much praised Munich-based ECM Records, a label that delves deeply into beautiful sounds. And its offerings are often (though not always) of a beauty of the spare and ethereal ...
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs for Sam
by Dan McClenaghan
Bill Cole has such a typical American name that those unfamiliar with his music could be forgiven for expecting to hear quintessential American jazz on his recorded offerings. Cole, a rare breed of jazz artist who has focused his efforts on uniting Eastern sounds with the American art form, is a musical seeker who has, over ...
Joan Jeanrenaud: Strange Toys
by Dan McClenaghan
Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud joined the Kronos Quartet in 1978, participating in more than thirty recordings and over two thousand performances with the always innovative string ensemble known for interpreting other composers' works. In 1999 she struck out on her own, as both a solo artist and a composer.Strange Toys, Jeanrenaud's second solo effort, is ...
Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz: GRACEfulLEE
by Dan McClenaghan
Most sixteen year old musicians are honing their chops in the high school marching and concert bands. Some of the luckier ones attend a school that has a jazz band where a beginner can get a taste of improvisation. Sixteen year old alto saxophonist Grace Kelly--a testament to joyful precocious talent and a killer support system--trades ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: Tabligh
by Dan McClenaghan
For Tabligh, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has reassembled a Golden Quartet to blow, very Miles Davis-like, on a follow-up recording to Year of the Elephant (Pi Recordings, 2002). But the lineup, excepting the leader, has changed.The sound is, in part, an exploration of Miles' electric period, from 1969-75, albeit in a sparer mode--a rhythm ...
Jessica Williams: Deep Monk
by Dan McClenaghan
Do we really need another tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk? Everybody who is anybody in the jazz game has put a Monk song on an album. Some have been so bold as to dedicate an entire album to the odd and angular songs full of playful dissonance and unexpected angles.Not easy tunes to play, ...
Gene Bertoncini: Concerti
by Dan McClenaghan
Concerti is twenty-six strings vibrating: A string quartet--two violins, a viola and a cello--with a bass added on the bottom end, fronted by the nylon-string acoustic guitar of Gene Bertoncini.A top notch guitarist who has taught for forty years at the Eastman School of Music, Bertoncini enlisted some of his colleagues from the school ...
Jessica Williams: Blood Music
by Dan McClenaghan
This electronically rendered music thing got its start with Wendy (then Walter) Carlos back in 1968, with the Grammy-winning Switched-On Bach (CBS Records). Carlos played the then-new Moog Synthesizer, giving a serous electric glow to composition by Johann Sebastian Bach.Now Jessica Williams--one of the finest acoustic jazz pianists alive--"switches on" for Blood Music.
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