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Jim Knodle and Dave Storrs: Unprepared
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by Dan McClenaghan
A trumpet and drum duet: two sticks, three buttons and a couple of pedals, pursed lips, studied exhalations. A fairly simple concept, on paper. Unprepared, by trumpeter Jim Knodle and percussionist Dave Storrs, is another shining set of spontaneously composed tunes from Louie Records, out of Corvallis, Oregon.Drummer Dave Storrs, though not ...
Joe Giardullo and Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Art Spirit
by Dan McClenaghan
Don Heckman, writing for the Los Angeles Times a couple of weeks back, called 2002 “a year of exhale in jazz, a period of relatively low energy."Humbug! He must be listening to major labels. If he checked out Pi Recordings (Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet's The Year of the Elephant and Fieldwork's Your Life ...
Susan Alcorn and Dr. Eugene Chadbourne: An Afternoon in Austin...
by Dan McClenaghan
Think country music, and crisp, three minute twangin' story songs float through your head; think harmolodics, and the extended free-flowing instrumental improvisations championed by Ornette Coleman come to mind. A combination of the two? Get on outta here.But as strange and incompatible as this musical marriage might sound, a couple of listens to An ...
Roberta Piket & Alternating Current: I'm Back in Therapy and It's All Your Fault
by Dan McClenaghan
Piano Lady Roberta Piket is looking quite cool, a little bit saucy, on the cover of her new CD... sunglasses and a hot pink sleeveless blouse, hips cocked, hands planted thereon, head tilted at a “you got a problem" angle. And then there's the title: I'm Back in Therapy and It's All Your Fault. That leads ...
Dave Storrs: Waxing the Slide
by Dan McClenaghan
If Dave Storrs had chosen writing instead of music as his art, Waxing the Slide would take the form of an offbeat novel, the story told from the shifting perspectives of a series of first person narrators. Something along the lines of Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen or Love Medicine, disparate perpsectives held together by the ...
Chris Greco Trio: Pleiadian Call
by Dan McClenaghan
Multiple reedman Chris Greco has put together a near suite on Pleiadian Call : loose, fluid, sometimes haunting compositions that seems to fit together like the pieces of an aural jigsaw puzzle, with a sound similar to fellow reedman Marty Ehrlich's. The trio format allows for a lot of space, and bassist Chris ...
Tone Sharks: Intention
by Dan McClenaghan
Not a prayer; not a ghost of a chance. That's what Dave Storrs would have if he had to shop his musical art around to the big labels. Percussionist Storrs - and his preferred musicians and instrumental configurations - deal (for the most part) with improvised music, spontaneous composition, and free jazz. The big labels have ...
El Eco: Two Worlds
by Dan McClenaghan
El Eco's Two Worlds is a bit of a smooth Latin stew--the cool tempos of Brazil simmered with the darker tones and more complex rhythms of Argentina and Uraguay.El Eco is led by drummer Guillermo Nojechowicz, and the generously-sized group also featues trumpeter Claudio Roditi, who recently added his horn magic to guitarist Ken ...
Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes
by Dan McClenaghan
The first four releases from Pi Recordings feature brilliant but underappreciated veteran jazz giants: Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet. But the label also looks to jazz's future with Your Life Flashes by Fieldwork, a collective trio of inspired and vibrant young jazz men.The group's leader (unofficial, perhaps, but he ...
Von Freeman: The Improvisor
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Von Freeman wasn't bitten by the wanderlust--a disadvantage in a jazz career. You've got to tour, or at the very least move to New York or Los Angeles. Or so they say. But Freeman stayed in Chicago, and for the better part of the last thirty years has been holding court at The Apartment Lounge, ...
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