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Michael Coleman and the Delmark All-Stars: Blues Brunch at the Mart
by John Barron
Every June, in celebration of the Chicago Blues Festival, Delmark Records hosts its annual Blues Brunch at the Jazz Record Mart. This live recording from the 2005 brunch features guitar great Michael Coleman backing up a stellar cast of Delmark artists. Blues fans might remember Coleman as a member of James Cotton's ...
Sleepy John Estes: On The Chicago Blues Scene
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sleepy John Estes è uno degli eroi del revival del blues arcaico che caratterizzò buona parte degli anni sessanta, quando la ricerca appassionata per le radici del rock e del blues elettrico portò alla riscoperta dei cantori della 'musica del diavolo' che fra gli anni venti e gli anni quaranta avevano ben rappresentato i fermenti culturali ...
Jason Ajemian: The Art Of Dying
by Nic Jones
This one straddles the divide between the straight-ahead domain and areas of greater freedom with such aplomb that listeners might be left wondering why such categories exist at all. In addition, there's a pervasive low-key quality to the music which serves in itself to further cement this group's distinct identity. The cryptically entitled “Your Shirts" gives ...
Wally Rose: Whippin'The Keys
by Nic Jones
Pianist Rose was an original member of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band and played a key role in the traditional jazz revival of the decade immediately after the end of World War Two. This CD documents another aspect of his work, namely that of solo ragtime piano playing. It brings together two LPs recorded in ...
Mississippi Heat: Hattiesburg Blues
by Nic Jones
Varied is the word on this one, even whilst the music retains a cohesive feel. Pierre Lacocque's harmonica is notable for its singularity, and he heads a rolling cast of musicians in the realization of his original compositions plus one from Denise Lasalle, amongst others. The music is clean and dirty at the same time. This ...
Jason Ajemian's Smokeless Heat: The Art of Dying
by John Barron
Bassist Jason Ajemian and his ensemble Smokeless Heat add to the continuing legacy of Chicago improv with The Art of Dying, an intimate reflection on collective musical ideals featuring drummer Noritaka Tanaka and tenor saxophonist Tim Haldeman. For much of the session, the group is augmented by Matt Schneider (guitar), Jamie Branch (trumpet) and Jason Adasiewicz ...
Jason Ajemian: The Art of Dying
by Troy Collins
Credit the laidback Midwestern vibe, or the relative availability of regular gigs, but jazz musicians from the Windy City sometimes seem to enjoy a more communal sense of development than their East Coast cousins. The highly competitive New York scene may be the undisputed center of the jazz world, but Chicago's fertile scene has generated its ...
Sabertooth: Dr. Midnight
by Nic Jones
Context might be all here. At the time of this recording, Sabertooth had been working the same gig for a number of years but there's nothing sterile about the music it puts out. From the first note to the last it's clear that this is a band that's got its stuff down, and the sheer buzz ...
Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This
by Nic Jones
This one could almost be a working definition of what Delmark exists for, documenting as it does an aspect of Chicago's seemingly ever-evolving creative improvised music scene and in so doing giving further exposure to a group of musicians surely destined to make an impact far outside the city's environs. If anything Jackson's writing for this ...
Mike Walbridge's Chicago Footwarmers: Crazy Rhythm
by Nic Jones
With music as venerable as this it's approach that's the key, and with these men the approach is nigh on perfect. Neither the dead hand of reverence or the corn that's often the undoing of traditional jazz performed decades after the event has a place here. Instead the music harks back to a simpler, more spontaneous ...
