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Allison Miller: Breaking Ground
by Franz A. Matzner
It takes a rare individual to excel in multiple artistic genres, particularly when success unfolds in the public spotlight and presents very different contexts. Certainly technical ability is important, but it also takes a peculiar blend of flexibility, curiosity, and determination. Perhaps that is what makes drummer, composer, bandleader, and outspoken feminist Allison Miller such a ...
Wellstone Conspiracy: Motives
by John Barron
The Wellstone Conspiracy is a collective venture for four of the more prolific jazz musicians residing in the Northwest region of the United States. The group consists of Idaho-based saxophonist Brent Jensen and from Seattle, pianist Bill Anschell, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop. The quartet, previously heard together on Jensen's One More Mile (Origin, ...
Wellstone Conspiracy: Motives
by Dan McClenaghan
This ensemble might have been labeled the Brent Jensen Quartet. They recorded One More Mile under the Idaho-based saxophonist's name. For their album Motives, however, they are calling themselves the Wellstone Conspiracy as they delve deeper into a melodic music that is steeped in the modern harmonic concepts of Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. The set ...
Kirk Knuffke: Amnesia Brown
by Martin Longley
Amnesia Brown was the name bestowed upon trumpeter Kirk Knuffke's absconding not-so-great grandfather. Apparently, he just sidestepped to a nearby town (and a new family), changing his name on the way. It's not quite clear how his memory (or lack of it) informs the repertoire of this album, but he also happens to provide the fourth ...
Take Five With Vinson Valega
by AAJ Staff
Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...
John Butcher & Mark Sanders / Alex Ward & Roger Turner / John Tchicai & Tony Marsh: Treader Duos
by John Eyles
These three contrasting reeds/drums duos are a fine record of the concert at which they were recorded, in February 2008 at St Giles-in-the-Fields church, London. Each of the three tracks lasts about twenty five minutes, long enough for the duos to give a good account of themselves. The three tracks give an opportunity to hear some ...
Bobby Bradford: With John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble
by Clifford Allen
Bobby Bradford With John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble Nessa Records 2009 In the instances that European and American improvisers have commingled and produced concerts and recordings, especially in the halcyon days of European free improvisation (the 1970s), a significant number of these situations resulted from expatriation. And it's ...
Taylor Ho Bynum / Spider Monkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams
by John Sharpe
That this is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's fourth leadership date so far this year speaks volumes about his growing stature as a bandleader, writer and virtuoso instrumentalist. Justly known as one of celebrated composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton's foremost interpreters over the last decade, Bynum's star now shines even more brightly in the creative music firmament, thanks to ...
Ornette Coleman: Music is a Verb
by Warren Allen
"Some people think of music as being on some higher level," Ornette Coleman says by phone from his apartment in New York City. “But basically it's the human being that receives the pleasure from sound. Not from the argument over what it is." There are a lot of questions about Ornette Coleman and ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 4-6, July 4-6, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 1 / Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 2 / Kenny Werner QuintetJeff Beck / Anat CohenFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 4-6 2009
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