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Matthew Shipp & Mat Walerian Duo/The Uppercut: Live At Okuden
by John Sharpe
While pianist Matthew Shipp has recorded a slew of head to heads with saxophonists, his duo -The Uppercut -with Polish reedman Mat Walerian is different. Reason being that on Live at Okuden the pair tackles a program of Walerian's compositions as well as four of the more expected jointly credited improvisations. However you might be hard ...
Last Exit: Iron Path
by Mark Corroto
In saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's interview memoir We Thought We Could Change The World (Wolke Verlag Hofheim, 2014) he spoke about meeting Sonny Sharrock in Berlin 1969, when the guitarist was working for Herbie Mann. Brotzmann never forgot the meeting, and when bassist Bill Laswell conceived the idea of Last Exit in the mid-1980s, Sharrock was on ...
Matthew Shipp & Mat Walerian Duo / The Uppercut: Live At Okuden
by Mark Corroto
Jane Austen was mistaken when she wrote “Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable." Passing away at the age of 41 in 1817, she would not have had the opportunity to hear either jazz, nor the music of Matthew Shipp and Mat Walerian. The surprise here ...
Plays Solo Piano
By Ran Blake
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2014
Track listing: Vanguard; Stratusphunk; Sleepy Time Gal; On Green Dolphin Street; Eric; There’ll Be Some
Changes Made; Good Morning Heartache; Sister Tee; Lonely Woman; Birmingham U.S.A..
Ran Blake: Plays Solo Piano
by Mark Corroto
ESP Disk's 50th anniversary reissue series continues to unearth valuable documents from the history of cutting edge music. Back in the 1960s, when jazz was becoming marginalized as popular music and disenfranchised by the rise of rock-and-roll, ESP chose to eliminate musical classifications that pigeonholed creative music. The label released music by Albert Ayler and Gato ...
Tiger Hatchery: Sun Worship
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Chicagoan power-jazz trio Tiger Hatchery debut mini- album is released on ESP-Disk, the label that was the most influential free jazz label in the mid-sixties. So it is no coincidence that Tiger Hatchery are influenced by Albert Ayler's seminal album Spiritual Unity, the first album that ESP-Disk released, as well as other high-octane trios like ...
Local Colour
By Peter Lemer
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2013
Track listing: Ictus; City; Flowville; In The Out; Carmen; Enahenado.
Fortress of the Sun
By Arborea
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2013
Track listing: Pale Horse Phantasm; Daughters of Man; After the Flood Only Love
Remains; Ghost; Rider; When I Was on Horseback; Rua das Aldas; Cherry
Tree Carol; Three unlisted bonus track alternate mixes.
We're Live
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2013
Track listing: Introductions; Young Jazz; Bird to Word - Billie Brown's Bounce; Bird Chase; Midnight (On This Beach; A Tree and Me; All Blues Medley; Strongman; Insight; When Malindy Sings; All Over (Ode Owed Youth); My Little Maggie; Brown Baby; Old Lover's Song.
