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Dylan Taylor & Kelly Meashey: Songs of Living
by Derek Taylor
Vocalist-driven projects remain a minority venture in the ever-expanding CIMP catalog. The label has a reputation for providing emancipatory forums for free jazz and improvisation. Such sessions are its bread and butter, so to speak. In spite of the naysayers who deride its recording philosophy, CIMP’s track record for quality music is difficult to dispute. Still, ...
Tchicai / D: Hope is Bright Green Up North
by Derek Taylor
Two sons of Denmark, Tchicai and Dørge have been musical colleagues for going on three decades. Their long-standing friendship makes this match-up seem almost like second nature. Curiously enough it’s their first trio recording in nearly as much time, the last being The Real Tchicai, a '77 date for Steeplechase with bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson in ...
Peter Br: More Nipples
by Derek Taylor
Something of a boon for Brötzophiles, the Unheard Music Series has reissued no less than a half dozen slices of his early oeuvre since its inception. A large chunk of the material dates from the German reed-splitter's Machine Gun phase when his anti-establishment urges found their zenith in that anti-establishment musical milestone for FMP. The contemporaneous ...
Schlippenbach Trio: Pakistani Pomade
by Derek Taylor
In the free improv Book of Lists the Schlippenbach Trio holds an enviable distinction. Together since 1972, they’re the longest running ensemble in the history of the music. This new UMS reissue augments their debut for FMP with an additional 20 minutes worth of material, making an already indispensable slab of music even more so. Yet ...
Brad Goode & Von Freeman: Inside Chicago, Volume 4
by Derek Taylor
Steeplechase seems to have stepped up the pace on its anthology of concert recordings chosen from trumpeter Brad Goode’s exhaustive tape cache. This fourth volume comes just months after the release of the third. Listeners outside the Chicago loop are perhaps less likely to have heard of Goode, but his co-pilot in the front line should ...
Ulrik / Swallow / Johansen: Trio
by Derek Taylor
The cursory documentation included with this disc doesn’t offer much as to the origins of this trio. On the surface they have the suspicious makings of a pick-up tour band, but the tight confluence of the music tells a different story. Steve Swallow’s surname will likely garner the greatest degree of familiarity, at least in the ...
Don Friedman: My Foolish Heart
by Derek Taylor
Many modern jazz fans consider the 1960s as the creative apogee of the music. The abundance of top-flight musicians, coupled with a near continuous stream of boundary breaking innovations, made for a creatively explosive combination. The downside to this artistic boon was that many high caliber conceptualists got lost in the deluge.A case could ...
Sweet Tooth: Harry 'Sweets' Edison
by Derek Taylor
Sharing his surname with another famous American inventor, Harry “Sweets” Edison perfected a style of swing that cut directly to the core of the idiom. Schooled on the Basie bandstand, his classroom the clubs of Kansas City, Edison’s horn was the epitome of measured, almost methodical frugality. Certain fans of the more bombastic styles of Maynard ...
Ari Ambrose Quartet: Jazmin
by Derek Taylor
So-called Young Lions seem pretty toothless these days. Wynton’s playing sideman gigs at the Village Vanguard, a venue he once lorded over (see the exemplary box set on Columbia), and cats like Nicholas Payton and Joshua Redman have largely fallen off the radar of public consciousness. The Zeitgeist seems ripe for new contenders and tenor player ...
John Coltrane: The Penny Whistle Tapes
by Derek Taylor
The late 1950s were a tremulous time for John Coltrane. In the stark wake of withering heroin addiction, he finally stood stalwartly clean and sober. The future lay wide open and uncertain, replete with possibilities. An all consuming musical quest was about to begin.After hooking up with Monk for an extended engagement at New ...
