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Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Always Let Me Go / Live in Tokyo
by AAJ Staff
On last year's most impressive disc Inside Out, pianist Keith Jarrett took his Standards Trio into uncharted territory. Instead of contining to reinterpret the classics, the group chose the route of collective improvisation. With their new double-disc set Always Let Me Go, Jarrett and trio continue along the same lines. Given that this performance was recorded ...
Charles Lloyd: Lift Every Voice
by Mark F. Turner
There exists a timeless and pure quality to the music of jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd that is refreshing and reverent. Like a fine wine that gets better with age, such is the case with his vision and musical purpose. Coming off last year’s highly acclaimed effort Hyperion for Higgins, Lloyd continues his statement for the endearing ...
Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around
by AAJ Staff
With a musical force like bassist Dave Holland at the helm, it's hard to imagine a group going wrong. But his new big band has a singular problem: too many players. Thirteen musicians, each more than capable, join forces on What Goes Around, which features seven tunes composed and arranged arranged by the man himself. Unfortunately ...
Anouar Brahem: Le Pas Du Chat Noir
by AAJ Staff
The outstanding clarity of Anouar Brahem's new trio record demonstrates the composer's ability to combine several cultural influences without sounding contrived or disjointed. For this project, Brahem composed 12 pieces for the most unusual combination of piano, accordion, and oud (a type of lute). The music came out of a long period of listening and composing ...
Louis Sclavis: Dans la nuit
by AAJ Staff
The ever-unresolved paradox of soundtracks is that in some sense they require a film to make “sense" of the music. But of course, there's also a delicious puzzle in listening to that very same music on its own. Such an experience can allow imagination to run rampant, taking moods and contrasts in sound and translating them ...
Misha Alperin: Night
by Mark F. Turner
Ukrainian pianist Misha Alperin’s commissioned work simply entitled Night presents a contrast from the norm in the way most audiences think of jazz orchestrations. Without “big horn sections, lots of noise, electric instruments, or special guest stars...”, the ensemble quietly but profoundly consists of piano, violincello, and percussion to deliver its theme. The silent absence of ...
Trygve Seim / Oyvind Braekke / Per Oddvar Johansen: The Source and Different Cikadas
by Mark F. Turner
One listen to the recording The Source and Different Cikadas will thrust the adventurous jazz enthusiast into an arena of discriminating music. The recording combines the efforts of European artists from the group The Source--featuring saxophonist Trygve Seim, trombonist Øyvind Brække, and Per Oddvar Johansen on drums, with the string ensemble The Cikada Quartet. Popular in ...
Steve Tibbetts: A Man About A Horse
by Paul West
The work of guitarist and percussionist Steve Tibbetts breaks free from most forms of jazz tradition out there; the music is out there, too, with little that's traditional - or even jazzy - about it. But it offers hypnotic pleasures wherein instruments are totally in sync and create rhythm in favor of melody. His latest, A ...
John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse
by Celeste Sunderland
Contradiction has its claws wrapped around John Abercrombie's latest recording Cat 'n' Mouse. Somber, weeping melodies offset rolling, jubilant solos. Wild improvisation fades into shifting, dark-ening sonic landscapes. Delicate brushes on drums churn into steady rock beats. The fifth track “Third Stream Samba" doesn't venture anywhere near Brazil. Even the title of the album, naming the ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Rarum: Selected Recordings of the Art Ensemble of Chicago
by AAJ Staff
If there's one thing Chicago brought into the jazz tradition, it's a palpable sense of freedom. Not just in the sense of “free jazz" (which certainly has its own deep roots in the Windy City), but also in the sense of free personal expression. Individuality is a premium export from Chicago, and few groups have brought ...
