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Vision Festival 9: Vision For A Just World
by Frank Rubolino
May 25-31, 2004 New York, NY Nine consecutive years of presenting cutting edge improvised music, poetry, dance, and visual arts –that’s the honor New York’s Vision Festival holds. This year’s seven-day event, overseen once again by bassist William Parker and dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker, offered 31 performances of consistently uplifting artistry. It all took ...
On Tour With The Evan Parker Trio
by Frank Rubolino
With Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lytton Barnevelder Movement Arts, Houston Texas May 2, 2003 For nearly four decades, Evan Parker has been creating exciting music in the trio context, and Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lytton have shared extensively in this creative process. They were reunited once more in Houston as ...
Joe Giardullo 4tet: Now Is
by Frank Rubolino
Spirited improvisation marks the offering of soprano saxophonist Joe Giardullo and his quartet on Now Is. Master brass and reed authority Joe McPhee is on board, as is stellar bassist Mike Bisio and fiery drummer Toni Tabbal. Together, the four artists stretch it out in free time with music that provides a kick through its high ...
Rowan University Percussion Ensemble: Nosferatu
by Frank Rubolino
Using the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror for inspiration, pianist Mick Rossi composed an original film score for the historic work. The film was one of the earliest depictions of the vampire phenomenon made universally famous through novelist Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897 and crystallized by the acting of Bela Lugosi in subsequent ...
Merella/Melton/Judy/Goodrich: Garage Concr
by Frank Rubolino
The quartet of percussionist Mark Merella, bassist Larry Melton, pianist Ned Judy, and guitarist David Goodrich communicates on a spiritualized level on these two releases from the Snack label. Their music ranges from ethereal to earthy, and it finds sonic haven on both ends of that wide otic spectrum. The two discs crystallize through the amalgamation ...
Rob Wagner: Walking, Crying, Laughing, Running
by Frank Rubolino
Robert Wagner's reeds exude a soulful sound. The New Orleans-based woodwind musician goes on extended improvisational romps on this trio recording while his band of bassist James Singleton and drummer James Alsanders lays down a solid foundation for his lift-off. Wagner's expansive solos filter from his tenor, alto, or soprano with gliding consistency. He does not ...
Conference Call: Final Answer
by Frank Rubolino
Synergy is critical to the success of any band, yet Conference Call has developed the art of interaction into a fine science. Gebhard Ullmann, Michael Jefry Stevens, Joe Fonda, and Matt Wilson have been playing together for a number of years, which helps explain why their music congeals unerringly into a solidified whole. Everybody is a ...
Chainworks: Red Rooms & Twenty Minutes in Brooklyn
by Frank Rubolino
Chainworks is a futuristic trio playing otherworldly music for beings with expanded capacity for absorbing new directions. On Red Rooms, Dan DeChellis develops varied sonic possibilities on electric piano, Brian Moran submerges the soundscape with electronic supplements, and Matt Hannafin paints asymmetric rhythms from a palette of assorted shades and colors. Together, they unite to spontaneously ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tribute to Lester
by Frank Rubolino
It seems like only yesterday when the groundbreaking Art Ensemble of Chicago burst onto the scene as the second wave of free improvisers carrying the torch lighted by Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and others. Their music had infectious qualities that made it impossible to typecast and impossible to ignore. Of course, it wasn’t yesterday but the ...
Rowan University Percussion Ensemble: Nosferatu
by Frank Rubolino
Using the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror for inspiration, pianist Mick Rossi composed an original film score for the historic work. The film was one of the earliest depictions of the vampire phenomenon made universally famous through novelist Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897 and crystallized by the acting of Bela Lugosi in subsequent ...
