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Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Low Profile
by Robert Spencer
The Spontaneous Music Ensemble consisted of a shifting cast of characters centered around the late lamented percussionist John Stevens; here he's joined by violinist Nigel Coombes, cellist Colin Wood (on two tracks), and guitarist Roger Smith (on one track). Thus all of these tracks are interplays of strings of various textures with percussion. Most of this ...
Kent Carter / Albrecht Maurer: The Juillaguet Collection
by Robert Spencer
Free improvisations that are stunning in their richness and melodic tonalities. Bassist Kent Carter, a veteran of Steve Lacy's Seventies groups, and violinist Albrecht Maurer obviously know each other very well. The music they make together is full of “conventional" harmonies as much as it is of dissonance, so that these pieces sound classically designed and ...
Lol Coxhill: Alone and Together
by Robert Spencer
Lol Coxhill is little-known but he is actually one of the first saxophonists to perform solo, and this disc contains the twenty-two minute “Festival Solo," a piece for soprano - Coxhill's saxophone of choice - that shows his range, imagination, and architectonic power. But there is much more here as well. The discs begins with Coxhill ...
John Russell / Maarten Altena / Terry Day: The Fairly Young Bean
by Robert Spencer
This string/percussion trio explores textures on these twenty-six brief tracks. Some are briefer than others: “See for Yourself" is the longest at 9:28, and “Emphasis" is almost nine minutes. But eleven tracks are under two minutes long. Eschewing melodic and rhythmic continuity, John Russell (guitar), Maarten Altena (cello, bass), and Terry Day (percussion), build up small ...
Veryan Weston/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Mercury Concert
by Robert Spencer
This 1998 live date is a superb example of the possibilities of free improvisation by a trio. This music of striking melodic depth, and is by no means simply a piano performance with a supporting cast. As is often ballyhooed but less often delivered in free music, these players are equal, and each contributes a tremendous ...
