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Michele Rosewoman: Guardians Of The Light
by Mark Corroto
Pianist/composer Michele Rosewoman, born in Oakland, California, should be considered the West Cost Randy Weston. Like Sugar Hill's piano giant, she is steeped in African and Afro-Cuban music, but draws directly from Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. Rosewoman, an instructor at the New School, has become a New York resident and has fully adopted a New ...
Konitz/Swallow/Motian: Three Guys
by Derek Taylor
Perenially the self-deprecating soul, Konitz offers a brief but highly understated analysis of the music contained here in his brief notes to the disc. For my money, the evidence presented in aural form is all the proof necessary as to why he remains one of the most inventive improvisers alive. He can take even the most ...
Ray Anderson - Pocket Brass Band: Where Home Is
by Glenn Astarita
Few will deny Ray Anderson’s estimable stature as an innovative stylist not to mention one of the finest all around trombonists in the world. Anderson is equally at home whether improvising with modernist Anthony Braxton, leading big bands, splitting hairs with guitarist Christy Doran and renowned Dutch drummer Han Bennink or exploring the outer limits of ...
Lee Konitz/Steve Swallow/Paul Motian: Three Guys
by David Adler
Altoist Lee Konitz, who gets top billing on this record, has a sparse, cryptic improvisational style that lends itself well to the left-of-center, quasi-free aesthetic favored by bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Paul Motian. Recently Konitz led a very different, yet equally provocative, trio project with Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden, which resulted in two live ...
Ehrlich/Erskine/Formanek: Relativity
by David Adler
The names alone recommend this CD. Multi-woodwind maven Marty Ehrlich has long been a fixture of New York’s downtown avant-garde circle. Peter Erskine was a superstar fusion drummer in the 70s and 80s and remains a very important jazz voice, steadily developing his capabilities as a straight-ahead/free player and composer. Michael Formanek, a quiet presence on ...
Higher Grounds
Label: Enja Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Seventh Avenue; Juriki; Higher Grounds; Litha; Longing; Touch Her Soft Lips and Part; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Dear John; Land Of Me.Collective
