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Joe McPhee's Bluette: Let Paul Robeson Sing
by Derek Taylor
The themes of cultural and spiritual emancipation as reflected through the African American experience have served as the bread and butter for the music of Joe McPhee’s Bluette since the ensemble’s origins. It seems only natural then that the group would chose to honor a figure who stands as exemplary of these too often curtailed ideals. ...
Jean-Luc Guionnet & Edward Perraud: Heur
by Derek Taylor
An outcome of unexpected opportunity this duet arose out of a companion session at CIMP's Spirit Room for the Joe Rosenberg Quartet (see also on CIMP). Guionnet and Perraud, both visiting Frenchmen, capitalized on the generous offer posed by producer Bob Rusch and set about freely improvising for the better part of an hour. In their ...
Spaceways Incorporated: Version Soul
by Derek Taylor
Something of an oddity in Ken Vandermark’s stable of projects Spaceways, Incorporated spent its infancy as a cover band mining the songbooks of Funkadelic and Sun Ra. The trio’s debut Thirteen Cosmic Standards built an entertaining and artistically-enhanced hour of music from these fraternal sources, but their sophomore sojourn in the studio suggested the need for ...
Peter Br: For Adolphe Sax
by Derek Taylor
Contrary to its attendant acclaim, Peter Brötzmann's seminal Machine Gun was not the German's debut recording as a leader. That historic honor belongs to what many perhaps still consider a perverse homage to his principle instrument's inventor, also originally circulated on the FMP imprint. Both the Panzer intensity and stentorian belligerence are securely in place on ...
T.J. Graham & Rory Stuart: Standards & Insights
by Derek Taylor
P>Creative improvised music remains a pursuit that largely doesn’t pay. It’s a reality that all musicians in the idiom must face and the necessity of a day job goes with the territory. In vocalist T.J. Graham’s case it’s college professor for financial sustenance and jazz improviser for creative release. Her debut on CIMP suggests significant facility ...
Burton Greene w/ Mark Dresser: Peace Beyond Conflict
by Derek Taylor
Burton Greene ranks as one of the seasoned survivors in creative improvised music. Like a handful of his ESP peers he’s still at it after all these years, plugging away at his craft and creating chameleonic music along the way. A relatively recent development in winding artistic path is his fertile association with CIMP. Throptics, his ...
Jimmy Halperin/Bill Chattin/Don Messina: Cycle Logical
by Derek Taylor
The Tristano School remains one of the most inexplicably under-utilized in modern jazz. Saddled unfairly with signifiers common to its more popular cousin the Cool school such as ‘overly-intellectual’ and ‘antiseptic,’ it’s a style commonly relegated to the fringes despite its undeniable influence on the music’s evolution. Endemic of these prejudices the number of surviving students ...
Jack McDuff: The Concert McDuff
by Derek Taylor
Despite the drab classicism its title might imply this disc delivers a set of music that’s a distant departure from run-of-the-mill repertory .pap. Jack McDuff might’ve been given the moniker of Hardest “Working Man on the Touring Circuit” if a certain Detroit Soul Man hadn’t donned it first. He was certainly deserving given the grueling touring ...
School Days: In Our Times
by Derek Taylor
While their name may be borrowed, School Days affects a musical persona far from derivative. The Lacy-Rudd project of yore may have been the impetus, but this trans-Atlantic ensemble is every bit its own entity. On their follow-up to last year’s Crossing Division the group, ostensibly helmed (and financed) by KenVandermark, rolls out another supply of ...
DKV Trio: Trigonometry
by Derek Taylor
‘Free jazz’- a signifier both lionized and demonized depending on the audience and the inclination. Its exact definitions are as protean as the tides but in the grand tradition of giving personage to the abstract few better archetypes exist than the DKV Trio. Ostensibly fronted by Ken Vandermark, a transplanted Bostonian whose Chicago roots now run ...
