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Rob Brown Trio -Unknown Skies (Rogueart, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro 'Unknown Skies' possesses an intriguing quality: it seems to be precisely imprecise, the strength of its cohesion built upon the tensions of it coming apart. Song heads could almost be improvisations, they seem so naturally unfolding, yet unison accompaniment belies their composition. Rhythms unfold loosely yet totally in control, and it makes for ...
Nate Wooley / Scott R. Looney / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter - Scowl (Ugexplode, 2011) ****a1/2
By Paul Acquaro I wonder what would make music like 'Scowl' of interest to the 'lay' listener? I suppose this is a question that has been asked in varying ways many times before, and no doubt will continue to be asked as members enter and (dare I say?) leave the fold of avant-garde jazz. I don't ...
Mark Hanslip and Javier Carmona - Dosados (Babel Label, 2011) ****a1/2
By Joe Higham Mark Hanslip is a name that appears regularly along with Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Mike Hurley, the excellent trio with Olie Brice and Tony Marsh 'Tom-Mix,' and also more recently the splendid Twelves 'Adding Machine,' reviewed here in March 2011. Along with colleague Javier Carmona, another mainstay of the lively UK free scene, ...
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day 2 (Songlines 2011) ****a1/2
By Joe Higham Personnel: Nate Wooley: trumpet; Matt Bauder: tenor saxophone; Chris Dingman: vibraphone; Eivind Opsvik: bass; Harris Eisenstadt: drums, compositions. One might expect daring musical adventures from this group of forward thinking musicians, yet the album the second in the Canada series, is not as avant-jazz as one might expect, however that doesn't mean it's ...
Okkyung Lee - Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik, 2011) ****
Korean cellist Okkyung Lee is one of those musicians who is not only comfortable in any genre—modern jazz, rock or classical—but in her own compositions she even goes beyond genres, not blending them, but defying them. The musicians who accompany her on this album attest to that: Cornelius Dufallo on violin, Peter Evans on trumpet, Craig ...
Nels Cline Trio - Silencer (Enja, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro There is some quality to the Nels Cline Trio's Silencer that keeps making me think of the first album by the jazz-rock trio Gateway. Cline's guitar here is often a clean and clear fluid mix of single note runs and well placed double stops that echoes Abercrombie's work decades earlier. Likewise, Cline dirties ...
The Kris Wanders Outfit - In Remembrance of the Human Race (Not Two, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro The four musicians in the Kris Wanders Outfit connect at a level deep below the surface. Their primal collusion results in some dark and earthy improvised music that bares the soul while kicking up some serious dust. Wanders, a tenor saxophonist from the European free jazz scene in the late 1960's has made ...
Joe Morris and Agusta- Ferna Ndez - Ambrosia (Riti Records, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro This guitar and piano duo album from Joe Morris and Agustí Fernández is an outing by like minded improvisors, happily extending the definition of melody and the physical limitations of their respective instruments. Between rich acoustic tones they scratch and pluck in unintended places, creating rhythm and melody in adventurous ways. The series ...
Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik, 2011) ****a1/2
By Paul Acquaro Picked by John Zorn for his new Spotlight series on Tzadic records, you know something interesting must be is going on with Aram Bajakian's Kef trio. Listening to the Brooklyn based guitarists debut recording, all suspicions are confirmed. The songs on this album seductively, destructively and quite entertainingly blend passion, reverence and sometimes ...
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