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Francois Carrier: Freedom is Space for the Spirit
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Francois Carrier had quite a week in late May of 2014. It began when he and his long-time percussionist Michel Lambert played with bassist John Edwards and pianist Steve Beresford at the Vortex Jazz Club in London on May 25th and ended with the duo performing with acoustic bassist Rafal Mazur at the Alchemia Jazz ...
Francois Carrier: The Joy of Being
by Budd Kopman
Continuing their world travels, the team of reedman Francois Carrier and percussionist Michel Lambert again meet acoustic bassist Rafal Mazur, almost a year to the day from the recording of Unknowable at the Alchemia Jazz Klub in Krakow, Poland to create The Joy Of Being.Much of what can be said about “spontaneous" jazz in ...
Francois Carrier: OUTgoing
by Budd Kopman
In the realm of Western music, the role of the performer has been rather circumscribed. In Classical music, the composer is king and the range of “allowed" expression rather limited. For most of its history, jazz performers relied on tunes as the basis for their improvisations, and thus, the composer (or tunesmith) was still ...
The Joy of Being
Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. The Joy of Being (14:20)
2. Blissful Breathe (15:06)
3. True Nature (12:40)
4. Mystery of Creation (12:07)
5. Omnipresent Beauty (10:24)
6. Disappearance (10:12)
Josh Ison: Perceive React
by Budd Kopman
The road to saxophonist Josh Ison's debut recording Perceive React is a very interesting one of connecting up with and finding players whom one admires, asking them to take part in a recording session, their acceptance, and finally their meeting for the first time and clicking impressively.Ison had been concentrating on finding the core ...
Zlatko Kaućić / Ab Baars: Canvas
by Budd Kopman
Slovenian drummer/percussionist Zlatko Kaucic (Kaučič) was very busy in 2013-2014. The meetup with pianist Milko Lazar for Ena / One took place between November, 2013 and March, 2014. The disc at hand finds Kaucic performing with Dutch reedman Ab Baars, recorded in October, 2014. Baars is well known in the free jazz side of the Dutch ...
UNKNOWABLE
Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Listening Between; Insightful Journey; Be Young Beyond; Unknowable;
Springing Out; Dissolution.
iO
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: iO; Blueshift; Mock Sun; Big Bounce; Superstring; Albedo; Ida; Open Cluster; Nutation.
François Carrier: Unknowable
by Budd Kopman
The mystery of spontaneously created music is most certainly “unknowable," but saxophonist François Carrier has shown himself to be completely at home facing, and embracing, the unknown. Unknowable finds Carrier and his long-time percussionist Michel Lambert meeting acoustic bass guitarist Rafal Mazur at the Alchemia Jazz Klub on June 1, 2014 at the recommendation ...
