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Mark Dresser / Myra Melford / Michael Dessen: San Diego: April 17, 2011
by Robert Bush
Mark Dresser / Myra Melford / Michael DessenUC San Diego, UC IrvineSan Diego, CAApril 17, 2011 The University of California has been heavily involved in the advancement of “telematic" performances now for over 10 years. Utilizing the Internet2 (a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium) and super high-speed bandwidth networks, as well ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Don Pullen
All About Jazz is celebrating Don Pullen's birthday today! Don PullenDon Pullen - piano (1941 - 1995) Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and modern, but retaining a strong feeling for the blues... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow ...
Jordan Young: Jordan Young Group
by Karl Ackermann
The Brooklyn-based Jordan Young Group has an unusual lineup featuring drummer Young, guitarist Yotam Silberstein, saxophonist Joe Sucato and organist Brian Charette. Self-described as an organ group, Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff are cited among its influences. Organ has been part of jazz since the Fats Waller days, but has never had an ongoing prominent role ...
Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory: Far Side
by Hrayr Attarian
Roscoe Mitchell's Far Side, with its theatrical quality, could easily function as a soundtrack to a modernist play. The beginning of the first and longest piece, “Far Side/Cards/Far Side," is reminiscent of the works of 20th century composers like Alfred Schnitke and Arvo Pärt, in the ominous sea of notes pouring out of the dual pianos ...
Korean Music Shines At Performing Arts Market in Seoul, October 11-15, 2010
by Ian Patterson
Performing Arts Market in SeoulNational Theater and selected venuesSeoul, South Korea11--15 October, 2010 The number of festivals, theaters and performance groups in South Korea has grown dramatically in the last twenty years and the tremendous developments in the fields of traditional music, jazz, dance and theater is testament to the ...
Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Anat CohenClarinetwork Live at the Village VanguardAnzic Records2010 Anat Cohen can make the clarinet sing--literally and figuratively. On Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard her wonderful, flowing melodic lines swoop and soar like arias placating the most high. It is as if--in that spiritualised state of grace--Cohen, ...
John Blum: Who Begat Eye
by Martin Longley
Pianist John Blum is a native New Yorker who has been immersed in the city's free improvisation scene for the last 15 years. His work with bassist William Parker and drummer Sunny Murray has had the highest profile and last year's release by this trio, In The Shade Of Sun, appeared on guitarist Thurston Moore's Ecstatic ...
Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
by Clifford Allen
Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quintet Tompkins Square 2010 In terms of surprising musical rediscoveries, 2010 has started off rather auspiciously with the first recording of reedman and composer Giuseppi Logan in over 40 years. Logan's appearances in the heady days of New York's fire music were scattered but strong ...
Joseph Jarman, Bob Wilber, Charles McPherson & Vinny Golia
by Martin Longley
Joseph Jarman/The Peter Apfelbaum New York Hieroglyphics QuintetBelarusan ChurchMarch 7 In the search for ever-more unusual venues, I journeyed to the Belarusan Church on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, the current home of Connection Works. This is an artist-operated, non-profit organization that divides its resources between gigs and workshop activities, ...
Roberto Magris and The Europlane Orchestra: Current Views
by Jack Bowers
Although barely known here in the States, Italian composer/arranger/pianist Roberto Magris has been making a name for himself in Europe with a number of rewarding enterprises, among which is his Europlane Orchestra, formed in 1998 to embrace musicians from throughout central Europe. On Current Views, Magris's seventh recording for Soul Note Records, the sidemen hail from ...
