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Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
by Jerry D'Souza
Carla Bley is interesting and witty in relating the experiences of the band on their first European tour in the liner notes to this new release. The pictures are great too, and if one wants to get deeper into the whole experience, just log on to the Watt web site and have dollops of fun! It ...
Jacob Young: Evening Falls
by John Kelman
While guitarist Jacob Young has been on the Norwegian circuit for ten years, releasing three albums under his own name as well as a beautiful duet record with singer Karin Krog, Evening Falls is his first to receive widespread exposure. And that's a good thing as Young, in those ten years, has developed, much like piano ...
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: The Out-of-Towners
by John Kelman
Recorded in July of '01, a full year before the group's last release, '03's Up For It , The Out-of-Towners finds pianist Keith Jarrett and his long-standing Standards Trio in a more insistent mood in Munich, where Still Live , still arguably one of the trio's finest hours, was recorded back in '86. Prior to Up ...
Anders Jormin: In Winds, In Light
by John Kelman
While those familiar with bassist Anders Jormin's recorded work on the ECM label with Tomasz Stanko, Charles Lloyd and Bobo Stenson will think of him as clearly jazz-centric, albeit adventurously so, the truth that emerges from his numerous recordings on the Swedish Dragon label is that of an intensely personal artist, whose vision places no boundaries ...
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: The Out-of-Towners
by Joshua Weiner
At this point, after more than twenty years of recording and performing as a working trio, what else can be said about the music of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette? All three were master musicians when they first got together, and the longevity and constancy of their association, unprecedented in jazz, has only deepened ...
Joe Maneri/Barre Phillips/Mat Maneri: Angles Of Repose
by AAJ Staff
For decades, the Boston-based musician Joe Maneri has pursued his singular vision of a freely improvised music based on extensive use of microtones. He often includes his son Mat in his projects. On Angles Of Repose , the Maneris are joined by the prodigiously gifted bassist Barre Phillips in a program of ten free improvisations. These ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
by AAJ Staff
Carla Bley would appear to be the resident smart-aleck of the jazz world. In fact, she's a composer, arranger, and bandleader of considerable gifts and stature, and a new release by her is prima facie important. The Lost Chords finds Ms. Bley leading a highly interactive quartet in a live session that offers both depth and ...
Joe Maneri/Barre Phillips/Mat Maneri: Angles of Repose
by John Kelman
Even the most organic music, in the hands of certain players, can take on a completely other-worldly tinge, somehow managing to feel both rooted in reality yet evocative of alien vistas. Reedman Joe Maneri has been exercising that neck of the woods over a fifty-year career that has seen him emerge as one of the progenitors ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Suspended Night
by Mark Sabbatini
Now this is what a ballad album is all about.Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko turns in one of the finest efforts of his four-decade career with Suspended Night, an album that can only be described as haunting and gorgeous. It is one of those rare discs able to reach any level of listener, from casual ...
Arild Andersen/Vassilis Tsabropoulos/John Marshall: The Triangle
by AAJ Staff
For a player with a background in classical music, pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos has done wonders in the realm of jazz, and specifically improvisation. He still plays with a precise, sensitive touch and measures out dissonance in carefully metered pinches, but the tidal ebb and flow that characterizes this trio recording stands as remarkable evidence that he's ...
