Results for "Delmark Records"

Muhal Richard Abrams: Things To Come From Those Now Gone

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2000

Muhal Richard Abrams is the grand patriarch of the AACM. He set-up shop on the ground floor as a co-founder of the Association in 1965 and has since served as one of the guiding forces behind its direction and longevity. Things To Come From Those Now Gone was Abrams third album for Delmark. It’s the last ...

Maurice McIntyre: Humility In the Light of Creator

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2000

When it comes to notoriety and recognition the lineage of the AACM is a strange one. Some of the Association’s pioneering members, such as those in the Art Ensemble of Chicago, have garnered lasting and consistent acclaim. Others like Fred Anderson and Maurice McIntyre who were equally important to the collective’s development fell into obscurity for ...

Anthony Braxton: For Alto

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2000

Like any other sub-genre in jazz music free jazz is marked by a timeline of precedent setting events. Many of these moments inevitably center on recordings: Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Advance, Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, John Coltrane’s Ascension, Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity. In the case of the AACM two recordings by members of the association’s roster are ...

Von Freeman & Ed Petersen: Von & Ed

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2000

Down and dirty cutting contests are nothing new in Jazz and their allure seems to transcend any idiomatic boundaries in the music. There’s a long lineage to draw on from the spirited jousts of Lester Young and Herschel Evans in the early incarnations of Basie’s Orchestra to Long Tall Dex and Wardell Gray slugging it out ...

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Freedom Jazz Dance

by Derek Taylor
March 1, 2000

Kahil El’Zabar remains one of the reigning visionaries on the Chicago creative music scene. There is a consistency in his approach to his craft that carries through to all of his various recordings and working groups. His predilection for recycling compositions is tempered by the certainty that each new reading will result in something completely different ...

Francine Griffin: The Song

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

Eddie Johnson: Love You Madly

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

Johnson is a prime example of the what I like to call the Iceberg Theory, the unwritten phenomenon in jazz which states that those who are recording the music regularly are only ‘tip of the iceberg’ when it comes to the sheer numbers of musicians who are actually playing and performing jazz and usually go unnoticed. ...

Barrett Deems: Groovin' Hard

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

Confessional time: prior to this listening to this disc my knowledge of Deems was cursory in the extreme. Vague recollections of the man’s name conspired with the less than flattering photo that adorns the cover of this release and resulted in a luke warm anticipation of the music. Looks can definitely be deceiving however and one ...

Archie Shepp w/ the Ritual Trio: Conversations

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

Archie Shepp has long held a special distinction as one of the pioneers of the so-called New Thing in jazz. Possessed of a sharp intellect and a deep pride in his African heritage he was one of the most vocal and uncompromising skeptics, challenging both his peers and himself to question not only musical conventions but ...

Percy Humphrey w/ the Crescent City Joymakers: Climax Rag

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

What’s not to love here? Six venerable patriarchs of classic New Orleans jazz reconvening for a rollicking trip down memory lane. As far as Hot Jazz goes it doesn’t get much more combustible than this. The roster reads like the roll call for a dream Dixieland band. The indefatigable Robinson, for years George Lewis’ right hand ...