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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 ...
Inside the Piano: Germinal; Gold; The Ill-Tempered Piano; Udentity
by Marc Medwin
Agusti Fernandez & Ingar ZachGerminalPlastic Strip2008 Magda Mayas & Tony BuckGoldCreative Sources2009 Nicola CipaniThe Ill-Tempered PianoLong Song2009 Denman MaroneyUdentityClean Feed
Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...
The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone
by Glenn Astarita
The MacroQuarktet features a crème de la crème of New York's progressive jazz and improvisational contingent, although the respective instrumentalists know no bounds due to variable stints with like-minded artists across the globe. Recorded live at the Manhattan venue The Stone, the quartet--or, wittily cited as the Quarktet--casts an impressionistic aura into the rather expansive connotations ...
Denman Maroney: Udentity
by Troy Collins
Denman Maroney, the sole practitioner of “hyperpiano," has a singular technique that is a natural extension of the pioneering efforts of such visionary composers as John Cage, Henry Cowell and George Crumb. Expanding on the well-established practice of augmenting the interior strings of the piano with found objects, Maroney bows, plucks and scrapes the strings with ...
Regards
By Dave Ballou
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tenderly; Labels; Bemsha Swing; Bumpus; If I Should Lose You; Regards; I Remember You;
Blues. Total time: 65:19.
Dave Ballou: Regards
by Ken Franckling
The best bands create collectively. You can tell when that's truly happening by their comfort in subtle comping--or in laying out altogether. Which is not to say they can't play with combined fire when it is called for. That's the key, and what you'll hear throughout trumpeter Dave Balllou's latest recorded adventure. In ...
A Beautiful Day
By Andrew Hill
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Divine Revelation, Faded Beauty, Bellezza, 5 Mo, New Pinnochio, J Di, A Beautiful Day, 11/8.
