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Jay Rosen Quartet: Canticles for the New Millennium
by Derek Taylor
Rosen continues his victory streak with this new offering from CIMP. Remarkably it’s his debut as a leader even though his drums have fueled sessions numbering well into the double digits. Throughout the lengthy program of pieces derived from his own fecund intellect his drum kit and percussive accessories are right up front recorded with crystal ...
Dominic Duval: Anniversary
by Derek Taylor
For a bassist operating well beyond of the gaze of the illuminating pop culture limelight Dominic Duval has managed to keep surprisingly busy throughout his career. Prestigious gigs with the likes of Cecil Taylor and Joe McPhee just keep cropping up at his doorstep and he’s managed to record an incredibly prolific body of work (admittedly ...
Andrew Cheshire: Relax, Keep the Tension Please
by Derek Taylor
For better or worse the CIMP imprint is burdened with great deal of baggage stemming from their stubborn adherence to certain self-imposed philosophical and methodological parameters. In addition to the controversial recording techniques they employ on their sessions the label also has a reputation for myopically centering on the freer strains of creative improvised music. An ...
Jimmy Smith: Root Down
by Derek Taylor
Sharing a fate similar to many musical innovators who weather the test of time Jimmy Smith eventually became a prisoner of the very style he pioneered. Cookie-cutter sessions that paled in comparison to his early, genre-defining work have become the norm in the organist’s later years. Root Down, recently reissued as part of ‘Verve By Request’ ...
Thelonious Monk: Complete Prestige Recordings
by Derek Taylor
One of the primary incentives of box sets is the promise of previous unreleased material. Their comprehensive nature points facilitates (and often mandates) the inclusion of any and all extant recordings by an artist during a given time frame. Frequently such sweeping attention to discographical detail comes at the cost of playability. Verve’s exhaustive approach to ...
Malachi Thompson: Timeline
by Derek Taylor
Delmark’s been a watering hole for AACM musicians since the latter organization’s inception. The mutually supportive relationship is such that many of these musician’s have returned to the label over the years, some sporadically, others more frequently. Case in point, Roscoe Mitchell who cut his first session for Delmark (the seminal Sound ) in 1966 and ...
Muhal Richard Abrams: Things To Come From Those Now Gone
by Derek Taylor
Muhal Richard Abrams is the grand patriarch of the AACM. He set-up shop on the ground floor as a co-founder of the Association in 1965 and has since served as one of the guiding forces behind its direction and longevity. Things To Come From Those Now Gone was Abrams third album for Delmark. It’s the last ...
Steve Lacy: Snips
by Derek Taylor
In the admittedly narrow annals of solo saxophone music Steve Lacy has managed to set standards of prolificacy unmatched by any of his illustrious peers. Even Evan Parker, who is regaled far and wide as the master of the idiom has failed to even come close to Lacy’s numbers when it comes to recordings. Here then ...
Nils Wogram & Konrad Bauer: Serious Fun
by Derek Taylor
Though the instrumentation on this disc may initially seem striking, the antecedent for tandem trombone improvisation was actually set way back in the Bop era by J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding. Admittedly those two doyens of the jazz trombone never operated out of reach of a rhythm section and their material was of a far less ...
John Coltrane: Kulu Se Mama
by Derek Taylor
John Coltrane's reverence of African culture is well documented both in his music and in the many accounts of his life, both musical and personal. His own recordings and as well as his earlier work as a sideman are rife with examples of his Afrocentric leanings. The title piece of this disc is arguably the most ...
