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Elliott Levin & Tyrone Hill 4tet: A Fine Intensity
by Derek Taylor
Here’s a group that perfectly illustrates the interconnectedness of musicians who traffic in creative improvised music. Levin and Hill have played together in various capacities since 1975, sharing stints in a variety of bands including a surprising stay with Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes and a mutual orbit around Sun Ra during the Saturnian’s stay in ...
Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora: Dedication
by Derek Taylor
In the annals of free jazz drumming names like Sunny Murray, Andrew Cyrille and Milford Graves often percolate to the top of the lists as the progenitors of the tradition. Equally important, if sometimes overshadowed is Charles Moffett, who as a member of Ornette Coleman’s trio with David Izenzon completed one of the most inspiring improvising ...
Blaise Siwula Trio: Dialing Privileges
by Derek Taylor
Siwula, Minasi and Bollinger- three names unlikely to kindle recognition in the minds of most jazz fans, myself included. Fortunately, as this disc goes a long way toward professing, what they lack in the notoriety department they more than make up in diabolically deployed musical cunning. Siwula is of the saxophone school that posits the virtues ...
Dom Minasi Trio: Finishing Touches
by Derek Taylor
In a discographical sense Dom Minasi has had a tough go of it. So much so that in the space of a single week and a pair of sessions at CIMP's Spirit Room he was able to double the size of his recording resumé. His first efforts believe it or not were for the Blue Note ...
Peter Br: Live in Japan 1982
by Derek Taylor
Improvised Company is a new label created by Kouichi Ohshima to bring to light past recordings by legendary German improviser Peter Brötzmann. Ohshima's affection for Brötzmann's music is apparent not only in this beautifully rendered release, which features an exquisite hand-printed silk-screen cover; but also in a recent book he's published documenting the German's expansive discography. ...
Last Days of May: Radiant Black Mind
by Derek Taylor
The closest referent for this group that I can think of (and my knowledge of this kind of music is admittedly severely limited) is the Bay-area based Mermen, a group led by another underground guitar icon, Jim Thomas, which traffics in similarly loose-ended paeans to the psychedelic age. Surf overtones are largely absent here, but the ...
Frode Gjerstad Trio: Ultima
by Derek Taylor
Witnessing this trio in concert is an unforgettable experience. This disc, released in tandem with their recent North American tour, is as close as it gets to hearing them in the flesh, outside of being fortunate enough to catch one of their gigs in person. The trio’s first recording Remember to Forget on Gjerstad’s own Circulasione ...
Joe McPhee's Bluette: In the Spirit
by Derek Taylor
Jazz and Blues are recognized widely as uniquely American art forms. At the root of both genres resides the African American spiritual song-form. Spirituals predate both Blues and Jazz and continue to be a life-sustaining force for both musical traditions. McPhee and his partners in Bluette fathom the primacy of this bloodline and use this date ...
Joe Fonda Quintet: Full Circle Suite
by Derek Taylor
Like the majority of his peers Joe Fonda has spent a large segment of his career on the fringes of public recognition, plying his skills resolutely and biding his time with a patience that would sour far sooner in the case of many musicians. Rewarding posts with the likes of Anthony Braxton and Mark Whitecage sustained ...
Von Freeman & Ed Petersen: Von & Ed
by Derek Taylor
Down and dirty cutting contests are nothing new in Jazz and their allure seems to transcend any idiomatic boundaries in the music. There’s a long lineage to draw on from the spirited jousts of Lester Young and Herschel Evans in the early incarnations of Basie’s Orchestra to Long Tall Dex and Wardell Gray slugging it out ...
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