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Charlie Haden with Michael Brecker: American Dreams
by Dan McClenaghan
American Dreams is an addition to Verve Records' collection of ..."with Strings" sessions pioneered by legedary producer Norman Granz. Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Harry Carney and others gave this genre a shot for Verve. Something about the grit of the sax sound in front of the orchestral string washes that jazz fans seem to either love ...
Sonny Simmons, Michael Marcus, Curtis Lundy, Jay Rosen: Cosmosamatics II
by Dan McClenaghan
You'd think a musical quartet running around calling themselves the Cosmosamatics would be something whimsical--fun, but a throwaway of sorts; but the sounds on Cosmosamatics II are brooding, deep free jazz in the mode of Eric Dolphy or Marty Ehrlich. Serious stuff that doesn't take itself too seriously.Two reed men are out front--Sonny Simmons ...
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Seasoning the Greens
by Dan McClenaghan
Jazz fans may be less prone to musical ethnocentricities and preconceived ideas about song than, say, those folks who go out and buy Madonna CDs, but that restrictive mindset lingers.Bill Cole is out to shake things up a bit. Cole has been studying and playing a number of eastern double reed instruments for over ...
Laird Jackson: Touched
by Dan McClenaghan
So many talented lady jazz singers out there; add Laird Jackson to the list. Though she's not quite new to the scene--her debut CD, “ Quiet Flame came out in '94, emphasis on popular standards of the 30's and 40's. She's taken a different tack this time out, on Touched, covering songs by Bill Withers, Joni ...
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year of the Elephant
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith put out a CD entitled Yo Miles! a couple of years back, so his debt to the Dark Prince, Miles Davis, is no secret. On this, The Year of the Elephant, his second CD with his Golden Quartet, Mile's influence, especially the sound of the late sixties through late seventies, pervades. In ...
Satoko Fujii: Bell the Cat
by Dan McClenaghan
A tough review, this new CD, Bell the Cat! by Satoko Fujii. Her art is an indescribable entity. Avant-Garde, adventurous, daring, startling, “out there." All of those and more. Pianist/composer Fujii began her musical journey in Japan, studying classical music. But she soon found that world too dulling and stuffy for her temperment. Improvisation ...
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!: The Twelve Tribes
by Dan McClenaghan
Whoa, so this is klezmer! A freewheeling clarinet wailing in front of a hard rock beat, dueling it out with a screaming electric guitar. That's “Tribe Number Thirteen," the opening cut on David Krakauer's new neo-klezmer CD, The Twelve Tribes. A wild, wild ride.Krakauer started his career as a classical musician, studying at Julliard; ...
Chris Wiesendanger Quartet: Urban Village
by Dan McClenaghan
The title of the disc, Urban Village evokes, what? Maybe some funk grooves, drum loops, seismic bass lines. But this is something different altogether. A quartet outing, Mark Turner's tenor sax and the rhythm section, on a laid-back session of languid, probing sounds that bring to mind Miles Davis's '58 Sessions more than anything else.
Emilio Solla y la Orquestrable: Suite Piazzollana
by Dan McClenaghan
If you haven't developed a taste for the tango, a love for the gentle sighing breeze of the squeezebox, then Emilio Solla's Suite Piazzollana might seem to be inhabiting a space out in music's left field. The musical pallet, for the American ear, is a bit unusual: two saxophones, trumpet, cello, violin, bandoneon, bass, drums, and ...
Professor "Louie" and The Crowmatrix: Flyin' High
by Dan McClenaghan
Professor “Louie", aka Aaron Hurwitz, played a major role--as co-producer, thrice--in the revival of The Band's recording career. The Band: the Hawks behind Rockabilly Ronnie Hawkins in the late fifties ("Who Do You Love); Dylan's sizzling, frenetic mid-sixties touring unit; “The Weight", “Up on Cripple Creek", “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", “Stage Fright". That ...
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