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Honey Ear Trio - Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven Records, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro The Steampunk literary genre essentially imagines a present informed by Victorian sensibilities and driven by steam technology. Imagine though, just for a moment, another alternate present in which popular music is not shaped by lowest common denominator tastes and gobs of derivative schmear. What do you hear? For me, the top forty slots ...
Oddjob - Clint (ACT, 2010) ***a1/2
By Joe Higham I should say that even though I only rated this album with three and a half stars I have no hesitation in recommending it. Unfortunately on a blog like this we receive so much cutting edge and boundary pushing music that a band like Oddjob is a little out of place, but maybe ...
Free Fall - Gray Scale (SMJZ, 2010) ****a1/2
By Paul Acquaro Free Fall is a trio of Ken Vandermark, Havard Wiik, and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten on clarinets, piano and bass respectively. The trio, apparently modeled after the early 1960s Jimmy Giuffre's Trio with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock, has delivered a challenging and sophisticated effort that reveals itself more with each listen. The albums ...
Other Dimensions in Music - Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011) *****
By Stanley Zappa So this is what a Five star recording sounds like...now I know: Kaiso Stories by Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor, how do I love thee? To get a sense of the sum, let's first look at the parts. Charles Downs (like Laurence Cook) is also a national treasure. Downs' deep relationship ...
Swimmer (Bandcamp, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro 'Swimmer' is a new release from a group of the same name hailing from Chicago. I'm not entirely sure how I came across this group right now, but I downloaded a copy of their debut from bandcamp.com and have been enjoying the fruits of their labor for a couple days now. Swimmer, the ...
Twelves - The Adding Machine (Babel Label 2011) ****
By Joe Higham The UK has probably one of the most interesting and diverse jazz scenes in Europe. New bands such as Polar Bear, Trianglehead, Outhouse, Nostalgia 77, MA, Led Bib or Troyka (to name just a few) are constantly coming out with music that blurs the lines between jazz, rock, free jazz and pop. One ...
AB Baars - Time to Do My Lions (Stichting Wig, 2010) ****
By Paul Acquaro I must admit I was afraid to listen to this album at first. I thought that I might not know how to hear, compare, or enjoy a solo saxophone recording. I like space and I like the edges of improvisation and music, but I was concerned that this would be to far off ...
Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas and Lee Noyes - As Birds (Re:konstrukt, 2011) ****
By Paul Acquaro Though I don't have the numbers on this, I'm fairly certain that there are more bass clarinets in the hands of jazz musicians then before. Lots of variables here to account for, so don't judge my research, just enjoy the hypothesis. Jason Stein, Louis Sclavis and Lucien Dubuis come to mind with little ...
The Engines - Wire and Brass (Okkadisk, 2010) ****
By Joe Higham From what I read on The Engines website this album was recorded live in 2008 at the Hungry Brain (Chicago), shame it's taken so long to get the CD out. So here's your chance to get to hear the second helping (*) of The Engines, a group coming from the windy city, made ...
Laurence Cook and Eric Zinman - Double Action (Ayler, 2011) ****a1/2
By Stanley Zappa Laurence Cook is a national treasure. Why the cultural machinery would rather embrace bourgeois twaddle rather than reward Laurence Cook with a Guggenheim grant or Macarthur award or the key to the city of Cambridge is one of the more egregious betrayals of our modern day. Cook took the drum seat after Milford ...
