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Joe McPhee & Joe Giardullo: Specific Gravity
by Derek Taylor
Horn duets are often as challenging as solo horn recitals, both to listeners and performers alike. Free from the frameworks of traditional chordal and rhythmic instruments such pairings can also create a rewarding theatre of unrestrained experimentation. The two players who join forces on this disc aren’t your average Joes. Both seem bent from the onset ...
Raph: Looking East: A Suite In Three Parts
by Derek Taylor
Spread over two spacious discs the largely improvised epic hatched from the mind of Malik on this set shows both the substantial promise of its composer and the superlative talent of the players chosen to perform it. The recording fidelity is a shade brittle and flat, particularly in reference to Moffett’s traps but the dynamic breadth ...
William Gagliardi 4tet: Music is the Meditation
by Derek Taylor
CIMP artists are notorious for coming up with some of the most eclectic and esoteric composition names in creative improvised music. William Gagliardi shoots for a new standard on his first entry as a leader for the label turning with a clutch of titles that exude equal parts idiosyncrasy and mystery. As it turns out the ...
Steve Lehman Quintet: Structural Fire
by Derek Taylor
The brashness of youth has usually yielded bountiful harvest in the fields of modern jazz. Consider the crackling work of a fresh-faced Lee Morgan in Dizzy Gillespie’s touring band of the early Fifties, or the brazen sounds of a cherub-cheeked Jackie McLean in Miles Davis’ outfit of the same time period. The list is virtually endless ...
Eisenbeil / Attias / Taylor / Rosen: Opium
by Derek Taylor
The year 2001 was a banner annum for Bruce Eisenbeil. Increased attention through a high profile gig with living legend Milford Graves at the Vision Festival and a pivotal role in Cecil Taylor's workshop ensemble earlier in the year cocked more critical ears in his direction and this latest release on CIMP is sure to continue ...
Frank Catalano: Live at the Green Mill
by Derek Taylor
Not so long ago an adversarial relationship between the so-called camps of mainstream and avant-garde was the talk of the jazz press. Ostensibly led by the preening mouthpiece of Wynton Marsalis many of the “young lions” were openly and sometimes virulently critical of their creative improvising counterparts on the freer side of the fence. Things have ...
Art Hodes: Tribute to the Greats
by Derek Taylor
As Delmark CEO and Chicago fixture for nearly half a century, Bob Koester makes no bones about his deep affection for traditional jazz. Throughout the idiom’s periodic lean years he’s provided a safe harbor of sorts for musicians’ to keep their sounds alive by financing new recording dates and re-pressing old ones. Art Hodes, radio host, ...
Brun Campbell: Joplin's Disciple
by Derek Taylor
Every style of jazz has its heroes, individuals without whom particular strains of the music wouldn’t have been born. For swing there’s Benny Goodman. The mention of Bebop instantly conjures the jovial visage of Bird. Coltrane arguably weighs heaviest in the realm of post bop. When it comes to Ragtime no other name carries as much ...
Fred Anderson: Dark Day + Live in Verona
by Derek Taylor
An absence of availability has long hounded Fred Anderson’s discography of the 1960s and 70s. Compared to the boon of discs that’s been a steady blessing since the early 90s, manna from the Chicago sax doyen’s early years has been frustratingly hard to come by. And up until recently The Missing Link on the Nessa label ...
Cal Tjader: Extremes
by Derek Taylor
Serving tenure at Fantasy that stretched the span of nearly three decades Cal Tjader was a staple artist for the label. A thread that traces through almost his entire output as a leader is an abiding affection for Latin rhythms and song structures, but the drummer turned vibraphonist was also amenable to a wide range of ...
