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Bobby Few & Avram Fefer Quartet: Sanctuary
by Derek Taylor
A misplaced piano, a dropped soprano and an aurally-intrusive air-conditioning system all conspired to derail this CIMP session by the jointly-led Few-Fefer Quartet. Fortunately, cool heads prevailed and the music persevered. The co-leaders' associations go back to the mid-1990s in Paris, though audio evidence of their collaborations proved slow in surfacing. Boxholder stepped into fill the ...
Ernie Krivda Quintet: Stellar Sax
by Derek Taylor
In lesser hands the title of this new CIMP release might seem both pompous and presumptuous, but not so when the mantle applies to Ernie Krivda. The Cleveland-based saxophonist has been in the game going on four decades, time enough to sharpen chops on his horn that easily justify the aggrandizing appellation. Narrowing his set of ...
Adam Lane Trio: Music Degree Zero
by Derek Taylor
Presenting the balance of a two-day session that yielded the slightly differently titled Zero Degree Music, bassist Adam Lane's latest disc picks up where its predecessor left off. The earlier effort garnered nearly unanimous acclaim last year amongst listeners and critics who heard it. This second plateful upholds the same standards of collective creativity and uncompromising ...
London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Study II, Stringer
by Derek Taylor
The London Jazz Composers Orchestra remains on indefinite hiatus, victim of the twin torpedoes of finances and logistics. Founder and leader Barry Guy filled the breach with a streamlined version dubbed the New Orchestra. But even blessed with the broad merits of the reconfigured band, it's hard not to feel pangs of nostalgia for its more ...
Objets Trouv: Fragile
by Derek Taylor
On the surface, the instrumentation of the Swiss quartet Objets Trouvés appears to follow the conventional schematic of a saxophonist backed by a piano-led rhythm section. The group's music, made up of ambitious sectional suites governed largely by collective improvisation, proves conclusively otherwise. Pianist Gabriela Friedli provides the composed material that serves as periodic thematic signposts, ...
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by Derek Taylor
Most independent recording labels have their bellwether artists, those musicians on the roster central to the label's identity and mission. Hatology has Joe McPhee. Peter Brötzmann is commonly associated with FMP. Tzadik revolves around John Zorn. In the case of Intakt it's Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer. Schweizer has been playing actively for nearly half a century ...
Prince Lasha & Odean Pope Trio: The Mystery of Prince Lasha
by Derek Taylor
Shooting for a faux sense of inscrutability, the tongue-in-cheek title of this new CIMP masks what is an unsurprisingly common occurrence in creative improvised music. Like others of his era who have dropped beneath the public radar since their halcyon days, Prince Lasha opted for a more financially remunerative path than the largess of professional musicianship ...
Stephen Gauci Trio: First, Keep Quiet
by Derek Taylor
Cadence kingpin Bob Rusch has a reputable knack for putting his faith and funds toward the promotion of unsung saxophonists. Stephen Gauci is the latest in a formidable line that includes Ernie Krivda, Avram Fefer, James Finn, and Bill Gagliardi. But Gauci's story is a bit different from the others. In addition to the usual obstacles ...
Trio X: Moods: Playing with the Elements
by Derek Taylor
Recorded the day following Trio X's last release, The Sugar Hill Suite (CIMP, 2005), this new disc is both companion session and departure. That earlier date spent substantial space ruminating on the history and cultural legacy of the named Harlem neighborhood, and the music ended up less overtly incendiary as a result. This one aligns more ...
Jay Rosen: Songs for Samuel
by Derek Taylor
Dedicated to Jay Rosen's recently deceased father Samuel, this solo date carries an abiding air of necessary solemnity. But as he asserts in his notes, Rosen's wish was to celebrate his father's living rather than lament his passing. The disc's dozen tracks do just that in dynamic fashion, relying on a kit augmented by peripheral devices ...
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