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Ernie Krivda Quintet: Plays Ernie Krivda
by Derek Taylor
Retrospective looks back at liner notes will likely yield a preponderance of writers decrying the dearth of public notice afforded their subjects. So many musicians hold the signifier “unsung" next to their names that the count is long since lost. As such it hardly seems worth it to affix the word to Ernie Krivda’s situation, no ...
Mark Dresser & Ray Anderson: Nine Songs Together
by Derek Taylor
As an educator, Anthony Braxton is easily on par with such luminaries as Captain Walter Dyett and Art Blakey. Near innumerable students have passed through his classes at Wesleyan and/or benefited from the musical incubators that are his bands. Among their number are Messieurs Dresser and Anderson. Both men have built careers from their early associations ...
Steve Swell: Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers
by Derek Taylor
Countless men and women find themselves seduced by the lure of unfettered musical expression only to find their efforts greeted by ambivalent ears. The creative hinterlands of jazz are notorious for swallowing talented players up in a fog of anonymity. Trombonist Steve Swell knows this reality well. He’s been working his way in from the fringes ...
Steve Swell's New York BrassWood Trio: Still In Movement
by Derek Taylor
Requiring something of a leap of logic in interpreting its chosen name, Steve Swell’s trio repays listener imagination with serious improvisational interplay. Swell’s been on the scene for several decades and during that time he’s developed an approach to the trombone that builds on the best facets of tradition and innovation. His tone can easily run ...
Ted Brown: Preservation
by Derek Taylor
As one of the last surviving original Tristanoites, Ted Brown’s reputation is surprisingly the least prominent of his peers. Though he shared the frontline with Warne Marsh on Jazz of Two Cities (1957), his discography since that seminal date has been a checkered affair with plenty of protracted holes, mostly due to a gig as an ...
Steve LaSpina: Remember When
by Derek Taylor
A dependable fixture in the Steeplechase stable, Steve LaSpina has contributed his anchoring bass sound to a variety of projects. Sadly his fourth recording as a leader comes in the tragic wake of the loss of his son. The aftermath of grief arising from such a tribulation registers with the unimaginable for those who have not ...
Fonda/Altschul/Bang: Transforming the Space
by Derek Taylor
Operating under the somewhat dubious moniker of FAB, an amalgam of surname initials, the trio of Joe Fonda, Barry Altschul and Billy Bang dispels any concerns as to its sincerity with music of startling intellect and emotion. The Beatles this group is not, but in the context of creative improvised music, that’s a mighty good thing. ...
Ken Vandermark: Furniture Music
by Derek Taylor
The title of Ken Vandermark’s new (and first) solo album connotes a certain sort of familiarity through its imbedded analogy: the conception of music as something functional and reassuring that can become a regular part of one’s personal landscape. Rest assured though, this isn’t your father’s favorite easy chair, or his most treasured Bing Crosby record ...
Oscar Peterson: Pablo's Prodigal Son
by Derek Taylor
The Oscar Peterson Trio, with Ray Brown on bass, Herb Ellis on guitar and/or Ed Thigpen on drums represents one of the most prolific and recognizable rhythm sections in jazz. Under the Verve umbrella they cut sessions easily numbering into the double digits backing a voluminous array of swing and bop heavyweights including Lester Young, Ben ...
Malachi Thompson: Blue Jazz
by Derek Taylor
As the eleventh Delmark album by Thompson and his third featuring the expanded Africa Brass horn section schematic, this disc suggests that the decades-deep relationship shared by the trumpeter and his label is in no danger of flagging. Regrettably, it also continues the track record of less than stellar musical results that has hounded the leader ...
