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Lol Coxhill & Veryan Weston: Worms Organising Archdukes
by Glenn Astarita
Lol Coxhill (sax) and Veryan Weston (piano) have been performing since the '70s amid their respective involvement in the British free-improvisational scene. These five pieces represent digitally recorded concert performances culled from the duo’s stints in England, Holland and Belgium between 2000 and 2001. Needless to say, there’s a certain magic that permeates ...
Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston: 6 Dialogues
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist Trevor Watts’ storied past within Britain’s free-jazz/improvising scene is well documented. While his fellow compatriot, pianist Veryan Weston is among the newer breed of prominent – freethinking - instrumentalists. This outing contains the first sixty-minutes of an eighty-minute studio session. And as we might surmise, the duo provides a comprehensive glimpse of what can happen, ...
Blume/Denley/Dorner/Mattos/Wachsmann: Lines In Australia
by Mark Corroto
If I were to tell you that the free Improvisational troupe known as Lines wholly captures the essence of the country on Lines In Australia, I’d be lying. Nothing the quintet does places them in, or downunder. But then again not much of free form music has textbook or geographical context. This recording, ...
Wren/Stabbins/Riley/Sanders: Four In The Afternoon
by Mark Corroto
This 2001 session was a return to the improvising scene by bassist Tony Wren. For those who are tuned into the British scene, his return was celebrated. For those of us stateside, who only get bits and pieces of information and performances via recordings, please rejoice in this quartet date. The significance of this ...
Various Artists: Freedom In The City 2001 Large Groups/Small Groups
by Mark Corroto
I have to disagree with my Buddhist, musician friend Pilcher. He believes that the proper way to listen to free improvisation recordings is to replicate the spontaneity of the performance by only spinning the disc once! Pilcher understands the experience should be fleeting, with only the memory sense? impression as a reference. He argues, you only ...
Frode Gjerstad - John Stevens - Derek Bailey: Hello Goodbye
by Glenn Astarita
Familiar notions of melody and structured rhythmic foundations are brushed aside throughout this splendid outing recorded to a DAT machine, two years prior to drummer John Stevens' untimely passing. Alto saxophonist Frode Gjerstad had apparently lost the tape, but he subsequently found it and cleaned it up. Fortunately, the music presented here is pristinely resurrected, much ...
Lol Coxhill: Spectral Soprano
by Mark Corroto
To describe Lol Coxhill as an eccentric English improviser would be redundant, maybe redundant times two. The saxophonist known for his wicked sense of musical humor is a true original voice. These two discs contain 29 tracks, over two hours of music recorded between 1954 and 1999. Compiled by the artist, these tracks ...
Maggie Nichols / Caroline Kraabel / Charlotte Hug: Transitions
by John Eyles
OK, quiz time: Can you name another all-female small improvising group. (Currently, I can't think of one. But I'm sure one of you will be able to.) Gender is a relevant issue here, because many of the qualities that make for successful improvisation are (stereo)typically female--behaving co-operatively rather than competitively, listening and responding sensitively to what ...
Tony Wren/Larry Stabbins/Howard Riley/Mark Sanders: Four in the Afternoon
by John Eyles
This new quartet is a departure from Quatuor Accorde, the other quartet that Tony Wren currently convenes. Whereas that is an all-strings affair, this one has the line-up of a conventional jazz quartet--sax, piano, bass and drums. But both play completely improvised music. And it is only the line-up here that is conventional. For example, when ...
Steve Beresford/Pat Thomas/Veryan Weston: 3 Pianos
by AAJ Staff
Multi-piano recordings tend to be dicey affairs at best. The usual problem is that players don't respect open space enough with all those keys at their disposal. This effect is usually exacerbated in a free improv setting, where no rules exist to keep everyone at bay. Fortunately, 3 Pianos manages to avoid these problems, which is ...
