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Arc Suite t/pi t/po
By Dave Ballou
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Continuing - 7:16;
02. East Arc - 9:57;
03. Poles - 6:12;
04. Nokimo - 1:45;
05. West Of Crash - 5:27;
06. Half Dome (for Bill Dixon) - 1:50;
07. The Dom - 7:41;
08. Silver Print 5 :06;
09. Dome - 1:06;
10. t/pi t/po - 5:12;
11. Mid Code - 2:51;
12. 17 Note - 4:47.
Mario Pavone: Arc Suite t/pi t/po
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'incisione di questo nuovo splendido gruppo celebra al meglio i settant'anni di Mario Pavone, uno dei contrabbassisti chiave degli ultimi tre decenni d'avanguardia: lo abbiamo visto collaborare a lungo nelle formazioni e nei progetti di Paul Bley, Bill Dixon, Anthony Braxton, Marty Ehlrich e costituire, negli anni novanta, un proficuo sodalizio con Thomas Chapin. I suoi ...
Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor: Arc Suite t/pi t/po
by Nic Jones
This release is something of a milestone for bassist and leader Mario Pavone. Now in his 70th year, he's also in his 45th year in music, which in a lot of cases would understandably mark a slowing down or restatement of established values. But Pavone is nothing if not forward-looking. So while looking back to the ...
Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free
by Glenn Astarita
The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...
April 2010
by AAJ Staff
Myron Walden Jazz StandardNew York, NY March 9, 2010One of saxophonist Myron Walden's four new albums this year is called To Feel and, indeed, if a single quality stands out in Walden's music, it is deep and palpable feeling, a big emotional sweep carried off with great finesse by his ...
The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Pushing the boundaries of spontaneous expression, one of trumpeter Herb Robertson's latest projects is the MacroQuarktet with fellow trumpeter Dave Ballou and the formidable rhythm tandem of bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey. Eschewing a blitzkrieg approach, the three improvisations on Each Part a Whole exude deliberative patience with ideas tested and developed into longer ...
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
Satoko Fujii: Chun, Heat Wave & Summer Suite
by Robert Iannapollo
Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii Chun Libra 2008 Satoko Fujii ma-do Heat Wave Not Two 2008 Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York Summer Suite Libra 2008
Denman Maroney Quintet: Udentity
by Glenn Astarita
In this fascinating 2009 release, leader Denman Maroney morphs the avant-garde implications of hyperpiano fare into a semi-structured progressive jazz endeavor with tunes that are largely melodic and uncannily attainable. The artist derives influence from avant-garde composers John Cage and Henry Cowell, who used nuts, bolts and other implements to perform on the piano via unconventional ...
Cameron Brown: Here and How! Volume 2!
by Florence Wetzel
Bassist Cameron Brown has had a long and illustrious career as a sideman. He has appeared on around 100 recordings, providing an anchor for luminaries such as Archie Shepp, Roswell Rudd and Beaver Harris, as well as the celebrated Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet. In 2003 Brown stepped out as a leader with Here and How!, culled ...
