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Howard Riley: Two is One
by John Eyles
Howard Riley is one of those musicians that we (those of us in the UK, that is) too easily take for granted. If he were flying in from some far-flung corner of the globe to perform, we'd be loudly singing his praises; as it is, we know he's great, but we don't shout about it often ...
Gail Brand / Tim Perkis / Gino Robair / John Shiurba / Matthew Sperry: Supermodel Suermodel
by Mark Corroto
Producer, percussionist, and label chief Gino Robair has a habit of inviting improvising musicians to meet and create. His early work was with the hard-core improv band Splatter Trio, before associations with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn. In 2002 he invited UK trombonist Gail Brand out to the ...
Kent Carter String Trio: Intersections
by Glenn Astarita
Legendary bassist Kent Carter's broad musicality is about much more than simply dabbling within fleeting interests, as evident on this quasi-chamber jazz session. Whether performing within free jazz circles or the modern mainstream, Carter is often an intense stylist. On this string trio endeavor, the bassist serves as the anchor while enjoying ample breathing room among ...
Roswell Rudd: Blown Bone
by John Eyles
Recorded in March 1976 (with an unreleased interlude from 1967 added here) and only ever released in Japan in 1979, this album is a little lost gem. Unusually for an Emanem release, it features not free improv but straight-ahead jazz. This album is labelled “File under: Jazz (Free/Blues/Latin) --not a common designation for the label. Central ...
Ross Bolleter: Secret Sandhills & Satellites
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un piano si definisce “ruined” quando è stato abbandonato alle intemperie del tempo, è riconducibile ad una scatola malconcia piena di tasti rotti e corde spezzate, e neanche una nota suona come su di un piano temperato. Si differenzia dal “devasted piano”, che normalmente giace disteso per terra, perché mantiene l’intelaiatura ed il mobile più o ...
Malcom Goldstein & Masashi Harada: Soil
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ogni incisione di musica improvvisata è un viaggio verso l'incognito in quanto non si sa mai se la scintilla della comunicazione, di qualunque tipo essa sia, alla fine si propaghi tra i partecipanti al progetto. Soil, dove tutto va benissimo, rappresenta un disco importante per la musica improvvisata che fin da ora è da mettere fra ...
Ross Bolleter: Secret Sandhills and Satellites
by John Eyles
For the uninitiated--which includes most of us, I would guess--this album is at once intriguing, fascinating and educational. Subtitled “for ruined pianos and pianos on the edge of ruin, it features Ross Bolleter, co-founder of WARPS (World Association for Ruined Piano Studies), who recorded all of these pieces on ruined pianos at locations in his native ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2005
by Francis Lo Kee
As stated in the liner notes to the first set with this title, “The Freedom of the City festival was set up as an annual event [starting in 2001], in order to showcase the phenomenal London improvised music scene. Though this recording was made in just one day (May 1, 2005), it contains ...
News from the Shed: News from the Shed
by Kurt Gottschalk
In the past half dozen years or so, as saxophonist John Butcher has become more and more recognized in the world of very quiet improv, interest in the early vinyl releases on his Acta label has increased. His 1992 solo disc 13 Friendly Numbers was issued on CD last year by the Dutch Unsounds label, and ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2005
by John Eyles
An eagerly anticipated annual release, the Freedom of the City CD is an essential complement to the live festival, providing the opportunity to check recalled perceptions against objective evidence and to fill in unavoidable gaps, but mostly--whether or not one was there--to catch some great music. Largely for financial reasons, the 2005 London festival was a ...
