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Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio feat. Billy Bang: Live at the River East Art Center
by Derek Taylor
The Art Ensemble of Chicago wasn't the only band to lose its anchor when Malachi Favors passed away in early '03. The bassist's other outlet, Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio also found itself rudderless. Rather than lament the loss at length, El'Zabar conscripted Yosef Ben Israel, another longtime colleague, to fill the slot. Taped at one of ...
Yves Francois: Blues For Hawk
by Derek Taylor
The two Eexemplars of longevity sharing the frontline on this new Delmark disc already held elder statesmen status at the time of the music's taping. Both saxophonists are part of the vibrant Chicago tenor lineage that includes Von Freeman, Johnny Griffin, and Fred Anderson. Trumpeter Yves Francois organized the sessions to redress a slight he perceived ...
Deep Blue Organ Trio: Deep Blue Bruise
by AAJ Staff
Deep Blue Organ TrioDeep Blue Bruise Delmark 2004 At last, an honest, straight-ahead organ trio record. There are no affectations here such as twenty-minute jam bandlike noodling; no additional synthesizer or other electronic riffs added to simple, yet powerful rhythms; and no attempts to ...
Sonny Stitt: It's Magic
by Paul Olson
It isn't, though. Magic, that is. While jazz fans may perennially debate saxophonist Sonny Stitt's status as a bebop innovator (ie, how much of its vocabulary did he learn from Charlie Parker, and how much did he develop independently), no one is in disagreement about his being one of the most over-recorded of jazz players. Stitt ...
Jim Baker: More Questions Than Answers
by Mark Corroto
The liner notes to Jim Baker's first Delmark release are full of apologies. He writes that maybe he should have done an ensemble session with some of the musicians he has been working with lately, like Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang, Josh Abrams, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, or Avreeyal Ra. He thinks these “free improvisations" ...
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizon Ensemble: Mean Ameen
by Rex Butters
Ernest Dawkins guides his New Horizons Ensemble in a program dedicated to longtime fellow traveler trumpeter Ameen Muhammed, recently passed. Both had roots with Chicago's Southside blues scene, and both belonged to the AACM, with Dawkins himself a past president. The sometime sextet performs here as a quintet, with rising star Maurice Brown handling the trumpet ...
Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray: We Is: Live at the Bop Shop
by Eyal Hareuveni
In the last few years we have become accustomed to hearing saxophonist David Murray playing with an agenda, especially since he began recording for the Canadian Justin Time label in 1996. With Justin Time Murray has released conceptual albums, either as a leader or as a member of the World Saxophone Quartet, that include tributes to ...
Jeff Parker/Scott Fields: Song Songs Song
by Budd Kopman
Although we are told that first impressions are usually correct (the “go with your gut" approach), the liner notes for this release nearly derailed my enjoyment of the music. The notes, such as they are, were written by Fields and consist of a stream-of-consciousness collection of words and phrases in a postmodern style full of in-jokes ...
Ernest Dawkins: Mean Ameen
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins is new to me, as are the members of the AACM (Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) in general. But, it really doesn't matter in that the music is accessible, having a constant, strong rhythmic component, despite the free-ish romps played over that rhythm. The AACM philosophy of eclectic creativity and ...
Back at the Velvet Lounge
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Fougeux; Olivia; Job Market Blues; Syene; King Fish.
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