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Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire
by Troy Collins
...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire is an epic four-part suite based on the fictitious songs found scattered throughout celebrated author Thomas Pynchon's early novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow. Oboist Kyle Bruckmann conceived this post-modern “musical phantasmagoria" as the first long-form composition written for Wrack, his experimental chamber jazz ensemble, employing an expanded ...
Rempis - Johnston - Ochs: Spectral
by Glenn Astarita
For this nascent record label's sixth offering, Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis unites with West Coast modernists, saxophonist Larry Ochs (The Rova Saxophone Quartet) and trumpeter Darren Johnston who has been all over the jazz map these days. Here, the trio hunkers down and prepares for battle via cyclonic three-way flurries, dappled with polytonal hues and expansive ...
Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard
by John Sharpe
In something of a departure for the Lithuanian No Business label, young San Francisco-born, NYC-based reedman Steven Lugerner presents a LP of his thoughtfully arranged charts. To breathe life into the notation, Lugerner has assembled a talented crew, which he carefully deploys in varying combinations across the ten cuts. Not only that but he also overdubs ...
Steven Lugerner: For We Have Heard
by Glenn Astarita
Multi-woodwind expert Steve Lugerner's solo outing for this Lithuania-based progressive/avant-jazz record label enters the market as a limited edition of only 500 LPs. Get them while they last, as some would say. And it's a very distinctive performance, duly capturing the earthy attributes of this all-star lineup's contrasting song forms and extraordinary synergy, clocking in at ...
The Big Lift
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. The Big Lift; 02. Cut; 03. Rubber Bullets; 04. Glass Ceiling, Paper Floor; 05. Love Call (O.Coleman); 06. Two Ways of Running; 07. The Rock Quarry; 08. Black and Tan Fantasy (D.Ellington).
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Darren Johnston's Gone to Chicago: The Big Lift
by AAJ Italy Staff
The Big Lift testimonia l'incontro del californiano Darren Johnston con un gruppo di amici musicisti tra i più attivi e creativi della scena jazzistica di Chicago. Ne risulta un disco delizioso in mirabile equilibrio tra ebrezza dell'improvvisazione e attrazione per la forma compiuta. Non è un caso quindi se i due standard presenti sul disco portano ...
Cylinder
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
01. The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish(Johnston); 02. Sung by Dogs (Nordeson); 03. The Deep Disciplines (Mezzacappa); 04. Crossings (Shelton); 05. Shells (Nordeson); 06. Four Thoughts (Shelton);
07. Skipped Rocks (Shelton); 08. Sink Town (Johnston); 09. Eartworm (Mezzacappa).
Darren Johnston's Gone to Chicago - The Big Lift (2011)
As I write this, the power fails at San Francisco's Candlestick Park just prior to kickoff of the Niners/Steelers Monday night football game. But as I am also listening to Frisco-based trumpeter Darren Johnston, I'm hearing lights-out music. Canadian-born Johnston found fertile musical ground in the Bay Area, but trips out to gigs in Chicago engendered ...
Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago: The Big Lift
by Glenn Astarita
Canada-reared, but calling San Francisco home since 1997, trumpeter and composer Darren Johnston delves into the Chicago's avant, modern-jazz establishment and kicks off a vibrant set, with prominent constituents of The Windy City's fertile soundscape. With The Big Lift, the trumpeter's ascending status within the outer reaches of jazz attains another hierarchical level. Peppered ...
