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The Jazz Mandolin Project: Jungle Tango
by Farrell Lowe
The Jazz Mandolin Project may be touted as a cutting-edge band exploring new instrumentation and sonorities, but after listening to their new album Jungle Tango several times over the last three weeks, I don't hear it. What I do hear is an ensemble with inspired interplay, all fine players, and yes, there is a mandolinist--band founder ...
Charlie Hunter Quintet: Right Now Move
by Farrell Lowe
With the release of Right Now Move Charlie Hunter has migrated into a more mature ensemble sensibility. Beginning with his choice of instrumental colors, Hunter seems to be exploring new personal ground by combining harmonica, tenor sax, bass clarinet, and trombone with his earthy B-3esque guitar sound. In fact, Hunter appears to approach his unique eight-string ...
Myriam Alter: If
by Farrell Lowe
Myriam Alter's latest album is attractive; like radiant sunshine through a winter window, it pulls you gently closer with nuance and charm, then seduces with intelligence, style, and grace. Following the blueprint of her earlier albums, Alter has once again written all of the compositions here. Instead of playing on the album herself, she chose to ...
Aercine: Aercine
by Farrell Lowe
It's rare to find an album as compelling as this one, and it's even more remarkable when all of the music on the disk is completely improvised. There is a stunning empathy between the five musicians who comprise Aercine, and the results of their musical relationship are sheer joy. Aercine crosses musical boundaries as ...
Paul Flaherty: Voices
by Farrell Lowe
Voices is an album of solo saxophone music freely improvised in the studio by Paul Flaherty. He's been at it since the '70s and has become an underground champion of chasing the Eternal Now. The subject of these sonic musings is freedom--freedom from the constraints of traditional harmonic, melodic, and compositional forms--freedom to go, baby, go ...
Hannes Loschel: Edi Flaneur
by Farrell Lowe
Given that Edi Flaneur is a collection of music created for children, composer Hannes Loschel must love and respect children very much--because the music presented on this disc is intelligent, provocative, sincere, and more fun than a can of glow worms! On "4 facher Ollie" prepared piano themes intertwine wonderfully with environmental samples ...
Jonas Kullhammar/Goran Kajfes/Johan Berthling/Kjell Nordeson: Nacka Forum
by Farrell Lowe
While a far cry from recent work by Norah Jones, this recording was nominated for a Swedish Grammy, which sheds some light on the differences between American and Swedish tastes. By now most folks know the sweet pop-inflected jazz style of Jones, but probably most have little knowledge of one of her Swedish counterparts.
Tim Ziesmer Trio: Transmissions
by Farrell Lowe
Transmissions instantly conveys a lyrical sense of warmth. Guitarist, composer, and group leader Tim Ziesmer harkens from the timbral school of Pat Metheny and former teacher Mick Goodrick. Indeed, his shimmering bell-like tone clusters and melodic sophistication suggest that he paid attention in class. Bassist Drew Gress and drummer Brook Martinez help make this trio come ...
Elliott Sharp: String Quartets: 1986-1996
by Farrell Lowe
One of the epigrams from composer Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies notes that “repetition is a form of change" and that sort of idea is at the core of E#'s concepts in relation to this recording of string quartets--but it is a form of repetition that mutates like an old Delta blues. Consider the guitar work of ...
Stephen Flinn/Bruce Eisenbeil/Tony Wren: Keep The Meter Running
by Farrell Lowe
If this album had been released in 1974, it would've been exciting and would have advanced the sonic literature of guitar and ensemble musics to some degree. However, it's more recent and it does little in that regard. The trio plays well together, are all fine players, and are well versed in the vocabulary of extended ...
