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Michele Rosewoman: The Inside Out
by Donald Elfman
As Michele Rosewoman and her Quintessence project evolve, the music continually reflects all the influences that have shaped this most intriguing composer and pianist. Take for example the opening minute of “The In Side Out . What sounds like a string section but is, in fact, electronics, leads to some appealingly complex writing for a frontline ...
Big Neighborhood: 11:11
by Donald Elfman
Right at the start of this set, on “Anthem for Jolyon Wagg, we can see and hear what this group is all about. It's new music alright but it's smart, well-played and colorful while at the same time being straight ahead, in the pocket and most mellifluous. These guys write smart tunes that ...
Harry Miller: Which Way Now
by Donald Elfman
To understand the full impact of this first-time issue of thirty year-old material, it's necessary to know what a hotbed of musical activity London was in the '60s and '70s. The city was bursting with creative energy and everything came together there--avant-garde jazz, jazz rock, international music, new music and more. One of the key figures ...
Alex Levin: A Reason for Being Alone
by Donald Elfman
Pianist/composer Alex Levin has penned a fine set of tunes for his sterling players--bassist Diallo House and drummer Taylor Davis; and the complementary playing (on selected tunes) of guests Max Hacker and Stacy Dillard on tenor saxophones, Chad Coe on guitar and William Martina on cello--to bring to fruition. This music is very much in the ...
Daniel Levin: Some Trees
by Donald Elfman
Cellist Daniel Levin expands the compositional and improvisational palettes of modern jazz on Some Trees with a provocatively assembled group of adventurous musicians and pieces. Without a drummer, this group is able to rethink the dynamics and dialectic of a “jazz" group and find new phrasing, spacing and modes of interaction. All of the players contribute ...
Stephan Crump: Rosetta
by Donald Elfman
Here is a string ensemble for the new century! Bassist Stephan Crump is known for his association with pianist Vijay Iyer; he has taken some of the personal and novel qualities of that collaboration and somehow found a striking new way to express powerful feelings about what it is to create music--and, further, what it is ...
Trumpet two-Fer
by Donald Elfman
Spark Trio Short Stories in Sound Utech 2007 Audrey Chen/Nate Wooley/Leonel Kaplan Silo Utech 2007 Revelatory about reviewing jazz in this era is the constant discovery of ...
Dennis Gonzalez / Yells at Eels: Geographia
by Donald Elfman
Trumpeter Dennis González's tunes and improvisations are open and free-form, while still retaining a strong rhythmic pulse and forward motion. Evident, too, is a kind of Southwestern color that looks towards Mexico and Latin America. Yells at Eels is the name of a group he started with his sons, bassist Aaron and drummer Stefan.
CAMJazz
by Donald Elfman
Smart and inventive improvisers and composers and adventurous and forward (and backward) thinking labels continue to find each other and this symbiotic relationship defines the recorded jazz scene in the 21st century. A great deal of the label searching emanates from Europe and Italy has always been a source of great jazz--not to mention film music ...
Seth Meicht: Trio & Illumine
by Donald Elfman
Seth Meicht Trio Cadence Jazz Records 2006 Seth Meicht Illumine CIMP 2006 Saxophonist Seth Meicht has understood the power of the great tenors - Coltrane, Rollins, Hawkins, ...
