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King : Trigger Zone
by Derek Taylor
The interpersonal politics of collective improvisation are tricky terrain to map and predict. How do musicians determine and agree on a shared spontaneous itinerary? What are the auditory and tactile tools and cues that lead to consensual shifts in direction and scope? What happens when the elements break down or are misconstrued in the moment? The ...
Bobby Zankel Trio: Transcend & Triumph
by Derek Taylor
Judging by his predilection for philosophical and spiritual sounding song titles Philadelphia-based Bobby Zankel is man who puts deep thought into his music and outlook on life. His accompanying ‘Artist’s Notes’ for this release further corroborate the picture of the intellectual who is at once brooding and exuberant. For these reasons the nature of the actual ...
Tom Prehn Kvartet: Tom Prehn Kvartet
by Derek Taylor
If there were elections for most influential figure in creative improvised music outside the performing sphere, John Corbett would be a shoo-in in my book for reaping the most ballots. Though he also wears the hat of musician, it’s as a concert/festival producer, radio jock, writer and general voice box for the Chicago and European scenes ...
Norton / Celusak / Eulau: The Iron Monkey Trio
by Derek Taylor
Sometimes the breadth and depth of existing talent in creative improvised music is lost in the political and economic rhetoric that surrounds the art form. While it’s repeatedly reported to be a niche music plagued by public and commercial ambivalence there are literally legions of players who practice and purvey it. Why are so many musicians ...
Malachi Thompson: Talking Horns
by Derek Taylor
Malachi Thompson has long been a fixture on the Delmark label roster. This disc marks his tenth try with the label. The majority of his previous recordings have been hit and miss affairs and past problems are the probable product of single label stagnation alongside a sometimes-scattershot track record with material and supporting musicians. Arguably his ...
Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt: God Bless Jug and Sonny
by Derek Taylor
Jug and Sonny share a place near the top in the pantheon of tandem tenor teams. Their spirited, hard-charging contests, which always seem to end in amicable draws are the stuff of canonical jazz legend so the news of an previously unreleased recording of the pair is undoubtedly enough to set the countenances of their loyal ...
Robbie Basho: Bashovia
by Derek Taylor
Robbie Basho had all the requisite trappings of a musical eccentric. So states John Fahey in his posthumously published sleeve notes to this second compendium of the enigmatic guitarist’s work for Fahey’s own Takoma label. While Fahey’s reminiscences often poke fun Basho’s fabricated persona (and ironically cite several critiques that could just as easily be leveled ...
Bobby Broom: Modern Man
by Derek Taylor
Call it what you want, Soul Jazz, Organ Jazz, whatever, but the brand of music birthed by the B-3 explosion of the 1960s is alive and well in the third millennium. Blue Note’s new banner reads “One Label Under a Groove” and groups like Medeski, Martin and Wood, and Soulive continue the extract marketable material from ...
John Oswald/Dominic Duval/David Prentice: Bloor
by Derek Taylor
From the opening strains of the first track this trio punches gaping holes in any notion of regarding them as typical chamber jazz ensemble. The requisite instrumentation is in place- reeds and strings. But the resultant music is a distant cry from the sweet sonorities and austere contemplation so often associated with such a set-up. The ...
Anthony Braxton and Alex Horwitz: Four Compositions (Duets) 2000
by Derek Taylor
Anthony Braxton’s engaged in some eclectic collaborations over the years, but this disc with self-styled comedian/vocalist Alex Horwitz has to rank as one of the strangest. According to Braxton Horwitz is “poised to make a real impression on the third millennium.” A member of a comedy troupe at Wesleyan University where Braxton is a faculty member, ...
