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Polar Bear: Raw and Spontaneous
by Bruce Lindsay
During the six or seven years since its formation, British quintet Polar Bear has garnered extensive praise from critics, fans and fellow musicians. Most famously, perhaps, the band was described by music critic Paul Morley as “dream jazz"--high praise, indeed. The band's second album, Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Babel, 2005), was nominated for the ...
Julius Vasylenko: Seeing Stars
by Gordon Marshall
Julius Vasylenko has earthy charisma. Because of his accent, people who come into his purlieu immediately assume an association with elite British improvisers. “Did he hang with Derek Bailey?" they wonder...I could say Vasylenko, a multi-reed and saxophonist now based in Boston, was John Butcher's and Evan Parker's kid brother. However, it ...
David Sylvian: To Blow the Heart Wide Open
by Nenad Georgievski
Many artists deliberately avoid taking risks, making changes instead opting for the safe, but David Sylvian is not one of them. Across his illustrious career, Sylvian has always sought to take listeners out of their comfort zone. Self-consciousness and introspection permeate every corner of his works. His most riveting songs have explored various topics, including spirituality ...
FURT and electronics on Psi
by John Eyles
The four latest releases on saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label tell an interesting story about the past decade as well as about Psi and Parker. Each of the four releases features electronics and includes one or both members of the improvising electronics duo FURT--Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer. After Psi debuted in late 2001, ...
100nka and Herb Robertson: Superdesert
by Robert Iannapollo
Herb Robertson has to be one of the most intrepid trumpeters around. He seems to be most willing to put himself in anomalous situations: the two-trumpet group he shares with Dave Ballou (MacroQuarktet), work as a sideman in various groups, membership in ad hoc assemblies like a trio with Evan Parker and Agustí Fernández or guesting ...
Alone, Again (Naturally): Peter Brotzmann, Olaf Rupp, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Woody Sullender and Frank Rosaly
by Clifford Allen
For this writer, solo playing and solo concerts have a special place. A few years before I began writing about jazz, and while living in New York at the beginning of the 2000s, I ran into the late violinist Leroy Jenkins in the East Village. I didn't know him personally, but he was instantly recognizable, and ...
Hakon Kornstad: Dwell Time
by Andrey Henkin
32-year-old Norwegian saxophonist Håkon Kornstad continues to skirt the competing modern Scandinavian jazz aesthetics of Jan Garbarek and Mats Gustafsson. In 2008 he participated in the stunning Elise (Compuctio, 2008), a delicate acoustic duo exploration with bassist and countryman Ingebrigt Håker Flaten. Kornstad's Dwell Time is, in many ways, a companion piece to that disc in ...
Joe McPhee at Cafe Oto, London
by John Sharpe
Joe McPhee Cafe Oto London, England December 11, 2009 When the eerie vocalized wail first manifested itself, the audience was left looking for the source. But it quickly became apparent that, even though his facial expression didn't betray the burden, saxophonist Joe McPhee was generating the noise at ...
Evan Parker: set: For Lynn Margulis
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Lynn Margulis' Serial Endosymbiosis Theory, which began making its rounds in the scientific community in 1966 as The Origin of Mitosing Eukaryotic Cells and graduated into Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, published in 1981 pushed outward forever in dramatic manner the boundaries relating the evolution of micro organisms. Margulis' quest for the absolutely honest and exciting developmental ...
Evan Parker: House Full Of Floors
by Mark Corroto
For three stalwarts of the British improvising scene, saxophonist Evan Parker, guitarist John Russell, and bassist John Edwards, getting together for an improvised recording was as natural as three old friends meeting for a round of golf, or possibly a hike in the countryside. Their approach to music making and improvisation is openly conversant ...
