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Schlippenbach Quartet: Hunting the Snake
by Derek Taylor
The Schlippenbach Trio remains one of the most redoubtable ensembles in creative improvised music due in no small measure to the sum of its formidable parts. Schlippenbach, Parker and Lovens need no introduction to those the least bit familiar with free jazz. The seemingly unsurpassable stature of their union was forged over the course of sporadic ...
Han Bennink: Nerve Beats
by Derek Taylor
Throughout his variegated career Han Bennink has carved out a place for himself as one of the crowning clown princes of creative improvised music. When he’s behind a drum kit the general rule of thumb is: anything goes as long as it’s laced with self-effacing humor. Even on early gigs, such as the germinal one he ...
Guillermo Gregorio: Otra Musica
by Derek Taylor
Argentine by birth, but now a resident of Chicago Gregorio is one of the unsung intellectual figures of improvised music. Since his relatively recent relocation to the Windy City he’s fostered numerous associations with the teeming creative jazz scene there and has even found the time and resources to record with several working groups for the ...
Sven- : Schlingerland/Dynamische Schwingungen
by Derek Taylor
Johansson is a musician largely lost on American jazz audiences. Though he was a seminal force on Peter Brötzmann’s legendary Machine Gun (fmp) and collaborated on various occasions with pianist Alexander von Schilippenbach in the 1970s his discography has been something of a recondite affair, revealed only to those musical archeologists willing to dig. In like ...
John Tchicai/Irene Schweizer Group: Willi the Pig
by Derek Taylor
Another rarity excised from the attic of time this recording was taped at the first Willisau Jazz Festival, an event that has since provided a forum for some of the finest groups in improvised music. Released initially in a run of 500 copies it quickly went out of print and has since never been reissued. At ...
Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six: Control Freak
by Derek Taylor
The neo-Swing resurgence advanced by such colorfully-plumaged groups as the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies may have fizzled in the last few months, but the Quality Six continue to solider on. There debut record for Delmark Heretic Blues showcased a band whose eclecticism and musicianship stood them shoulders above the competition. Rather than simply ...
Harold Ousley: Grit-Gittin' Feelin'
by Derek Taylor
Chicago has long been the land of the larger than life jazz tenors. Boasting a lineage that stretches back generations the Windy City has birthed some of the music’s most venerated big-toned saxophonists. Clifford Jordan, Gene Ammons, Von Freeman, Fred Anderson and Eric Alexander are but a handful of the names belonging to this fraternity of ...
Luther Thomas Quintet: Realities: Old & New
by Derek Taylor
Luther Thomas plays and speaks from the gut and his unequivocal artistic integrity becomes immediately apparent whether it’s projected through his horn or by way of written word. Add to this that he’s managed to balance a reverence for jazz tradition with freer proclivities and an indication of what’s in store on this disc should begin ...
Maurice McIntyre: Humility In the Light of Creator
by Derek Taylor
When it comes to notoriety and recognition the lineage of the AACM is a strange one. Some of the Association’s pioneering members, such as those in the Art Ensemble of Chicago, have garnered lasting and consistent acclaim. Others like Fred Anderson and Maurice McIntyre who were equally important to the collective’s development fell into obscurity for ...
Anthony Braxton: For Alto
by Derek Taylor
Like any other sub-genre in jazz music free jazz is marked by a timeline of precedent setting events. Many of these moments inevitably center on recordings: Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Advance, Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, John Coltrane’s Ascension, Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity. In the case of the AACM two recordings by members of the association’s roster are ...
