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McPhee/ Giardullo/ Bisio/ Duval: No Greater Love
by Derek Taylor
Recording sessions can sometimes be unruly beasts and the girth and breadth of music created does not always fit comfortably into the pre-planned parameters of studio time. Extra material in the way of alternate takes and additional tunes are the common outcome of a session that eclipses its originally hatched upon boundaries. Very often this grist ...
Ehran Elisha Ensemble: The Lowdown
by Derek Taylor
Drummer Elisha is one of those players that operates just below the prevailing radar screen in creative improvised music and his work as a leader, in spite of an earlier solid offering on CIMP ( The Kicker ), has yielded only checkered recognition thus far. The same can actually be safely said for each of the ...
Wright/ Marsh / Rainey/ F. Lonberg-Holm: The Darkest Corner, The Most Conspicuous
by Derek Taylor
Free improvisation is one of the most mutable modes of musical expression around. Under its auspices anything is possible. But hand in hand with freedom is a frequent malleability of group membership- rare are the freely improvising ensembles that stay together for the long haul. The music demands and depends on constant reinvention and reevaluation, two ...
Spaceways Incorporated: Thirteen Cosmic Standards
by Derek Taylor
Ken Vandermark’s music has long revolved around an orbit of paying homage. The vast majority of his original pieces are of a dedicatory nature giving thanks and praise both to peers and elders. Several of his groups- Witches and Devils, Sound In Action, the one at hand- were even formed precisely with this purpose in mind. ...
Vandermark 5: Burn the Incline
by Derek Taylor
The V5 is arguably Ken Vandermark’s most widely renowned group. Of all of the Chicago reedman’s projects it certainly has the most miles under its belt in terms of touring and the voices that round out it’s ranks are among the vanguard of the city’s still expanding creative music scene. What this adds up to in ...
Pharoah Sanders/ Hamid Drake/ Adam Rudolph: Spirits
by Derek Taylor
The New Thing of the 1960s was in many ways an insurgent movement- both building from and at the same time challenging the prevailing traditions in Jazz. Players like Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp were among the most outspoken and recognizable mutineers. But when the fires of insurrection abated in the 1970s, both men were criticized ...
Mark Murphy: Some Time Ago
by Derek Taylor
A preface to this review is order. I’m something of a curmudgeonly customer when it comes to jazz vocals. I can readily dig on classic (and admittedly popular) singers such as Holiday, Fitzgerald, Vaughn, Simone and so on. But when it comes to male vocalists, not only are the numbers comparatively smaller, but the pool of ...
Ornette Coleman: Skies of America
by Derek Taylor
Jazz and Classical music have always been uneasy bedfellows and Third Stream pairings of the two have rarely, if ever, resulted in unqualified successes. The blurred boundaries between the genres are commonly drawn along the lines of improvisation; the assumption being that jazz is an improvised music and Classical composed. This convenient divider becomes immediately problematic ...
Michael Bisio / Eyvind Kang: MBEK
by Derek Taylor
An entire program of tandem string discourse may seem at first perusal like at unsavory offering. Few are the numbers of improvising string aggregations that can make such a combination work. Fortunately, as becomes immediately apparent once the music here begins Michael Bisio and Eyvind Kang are string stylists of the strong distinction and their collective ...
Axel D: Claque
by Derek Taylor
On the surface the two geographical parts of this trio seem like a somewhat unlikely gathering of talents: German brassman Dörner is perhaps best known stateside for his work with the Berlin Contemporary Orchestra and Alexander von Schilippenbach. Lonberg-Holm and Zerang are Windy City regulars as well as frequent bandmates. The opportunity for the three to ...
