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Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond
by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
The Opposite: Interwined
by Eyal Hareuveni
This Swedish sextet was initiated by Malmö-based French keyboardist Loïc Dequidt and drummer Peter Nilsson--the latter one of the leaders of the Malmö-based Kopasetic Label's musicians collective, which investigates improvisational interplay through a democratic, collective group approach based on a dynamic rhythmic concepts that lean on Indian, African and Cuban traditions. Their instincts proved right since ...
Jorrit Dijkstra: Pillow Circles
by Troy Collins
An international summit meeting, Pillow Circles joins four American jazz musicians with four Dutch improvisers. Similar in feel to his Flatlands Collective, this effort finds Dutch expatriate and multi-instrumentalist Jorrit Dijkstra paying homage to a handful of artists who have inspired him, with each piece dedicated to an individual. Bringing an empathetic familiarity to ...
Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine
by John Sharpe
Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil continues to push beyond the outer reaches of the guitar universe, building on the work of pioneers like Derek Bailey and Fred Frith. His career trajectory takes him ever farther from the jazz mother lode, and his last outing--on Totem>'s Solar Forge (ESP, 2008)--stretched the boundaries of the guitar power trio to breaking ...
Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air
By Fred Frith
Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2009
Track listing: Nowhere: to run; near; to be seen; else; can compare; getting; going; to hide. Sideshow: clearing the throat; show time; on or in the wing; act two; angels with thirty faces; in which all may have been revealed; ghost of BB; Ms. Mac drinks and goes home. Thin Air: ladders; screened; plastic; running; falling; fast feet.
Still Urban / The Big Picture
By Fred Frith
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
Still Urban Part 1 - 9
01. Part 1: Landscape With or Without Edges;
02. Part 2: Door Won't Open, Door Won't Close;
03. Part 3: Nervous When I Turned;
04. Part 4: Family Ties;
05. Part 5: Science to Someone Living;
06. Part 6: Glass and Mirror Cut to Size;
07. Part 7: Everywhere Hastily We Followed;
08. Part 8: Two Blinkings of an Eyelid;
09. Part 9: Near Future Faith;
The Big Picture
Part 1 - 6:
01. The Big Picture Part 1;
02. The Big Picture Part 2;
03. The Big Picture Part 3;
04. The Big Picture Part 4;
05. The Big Picture Part 5;
06. The Big Picture Part 6.
Freedom in Fragments
07. Introduction: The Power of Prayer;
08. Some Assembly Required (soloist: B. Hofstetter);
09. Hopscotch (for John Zorn);
10. Confess;
11. Song and Dance;
12. Void Where Prohibited (soloist: S. Armbruster);
13. Rosali's Song;
14. Red Rag;
15. Significant Restrictions Apply (soloist: A. Formenti);
16. Boyan's Problem;
17. Kick It;
18. Nostalgia;
19. Batteries Not Included (soloist: B. Kappeler);
20. T. Square Park Lark (for Frank Zappa);
21. The Power of Prayer: Coda.
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Fred Frith: Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air
by John Kelman
His sixth album of music for dance, Nowhere / Sideshow / Thin Air continues multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith's longstanding collaboration with Carla Kihlstedt. The violinist was heard most recently on Frith's previous dance disc, The Happy End Problem (ReR Megacorp, 2006), and in performance as part of his well-received Art Bears Songbook, with Art Bears percussionist/lyricist/co-founder Chris ...
The Nice Guy Trio: Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio
by Mark Corroto
Give three imaginative artists a yearlong residency in a performance space, located in a breeding ground for creative music and the results hopefully will turn out to be something like Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio. Canadian trumpeter Darren Johnston, now living in the Bay area of San Francisco, spent a year making music ...
Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12Since its inception in 2005, the Norwegian Punkt festival has been gaining an international reputation for innovation and creativity. With a founding premise of Live Remix--where individual concerts, crossing the breadth of jazz but also beyond, are remixed immediately following the performance with other ...
Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar
by Guillem Vidal
Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954) comparece puntualmente a su cita con All About Jazz en una mesa del bar del Auditori de Barcelona contigua a la que ocupa en ese momento Horacio Fumero, el contrabajista de Tete Montoliu. Estamos entre el edificio donde el pianista imparte clases de improvisación en jazz y música contemporánea ("el ...
