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William Hooker: Earth's Orbit
by John Sharpe
William Hooker Earth's Orbit No Business Records 2010 If East Coast is hot and West Coast cool in classic jazz parlance, then composer and drummer William Hooker subverts that tenet with East hot, West hotter in this limited edition, double vinyl set featuring separate bands captured live on ...
Darius Jones' Three-Night Residency at Roulette Begins Tonight
Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist/composer Darius Jones' latest three-night residency at New York's Roulette begins tonight. Jones, who was recently nominated for Up & Coming Artist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, will be performing with both his longstanding working trio and a new quartet. The former, featuring bassist Adam Lane and drummer Jason Nazary, will ...
Little Women: Throat
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con una copertina molto à la ESP, l'etichetta di Giuseppi Logan e Patty Waters (ma anche di Ornette, Ayler, Sun Ra, e tanti altri), ecco un album che, come appunto quel glorioso modello, ha l'invidiabile pregio di non (voler) essere in alcun modo ammiccante, rassicurante, omologato; e invece, ruvido, magmatico, torvo, rovente, tra schizofrenia e turgore, ...
Vision Festival 2010: Prologue
by John Sharpe
Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Darius Jones Trio, Tim Berne's Lowest Common DenominatorVision Festival PrologueLocal 269New York CityJune 21, 2010Contrary to the belt tightening going on all around, ...
Darius Jones Returns to Roulette for Three Nights Starting July 28th
AUM Fidelity recording artist Darius Jones (Darius Jones Trio, Little Women) will return to Roulette on July 28th for a three-night run featuring his longstanding working trio and a new quartet. Here's the itinerary: Wednesday, July 28th at 8:30 p.m. Darius Jones Trio Darius Jones, alto saxophone Adam Lane, bass Jason Nazary, drums ...
Marc Edwards / Weasel Walter Group: Blood Of The Earth
by Mark Corroto
Double drummer-led free jazz sessions come with a price, and both aural and contemplative muscles need to be flexed. With Blood Of The Earth, from drummers Marc Edwards and Weasel Walter, the challenges for immersion in a sonic concentration of spontaneity and stamina. But this is not your father's retread of John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!, 1965). ...
Weasel Walter: Mysteries Beneath The Planet & Invasion
by Martin Longley
Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter GroupMysteries Beneath The PlanetugEXPLODE2009 Weasel Walter SeptetInvasionugEXPLODE2010 Both of these Weasel Walter albums feature similarly-equipped bands and a comparable level of attack, magnified, distended, distilled, compacted, crushed, ...
Little Women: Throat
by Nic Jones
Little Women spans the divide between the primitive and the sophisticated in a manner that's true of so few. For this, its second release, it's useful to offer pointers such as Albert Ayler and Peter Brotzmann (whose “Machine Gun" is particularly pertinent in terms of sonic assault), but they serve merely to place what this quartet ...
Little Women: Throat
by John Sharpe
Brooklyn-based quartet, Little Women, blasts out of the starting gate with its full length debut on the Aum Fidelity imprint, following up its 2008 EP. The best known of the group's constituent parts to jazz fans is alto saxophonist Darius Jones, whose Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing), also on Aum Fidelity, was one of ...
The Necks, Weasel Walter, Butch Morris & Lou Reed
by Martin Longley
The NecksIssue Project RoomJanuary 27, 2010 There was a moment right at the brink of The Necks starting up their first set, where the notion hit: what if they can't think of anything? What if they can't begin? What if, finally, after more than two decades, this same familiar familial ...
