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Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: "Year of the Tiger" a Reason to Celebrate
Fred Ho's Green Monster Big Band is something else, no doubt about it. Take some of the hottest players around (Bobby Zankel, Salim Washington, Stanton Davis, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and on from there), put together wacky but convincing big band charts covering everything from “The Johnny Quest Theme," Michael Jackson, Hendrix, interesting original charts, ...
Down-Home Funk and Hard Bop on Native Soul's "Soul Step"
A soulful way is what the Native Soul quartet brings to the table. Their second release Soul Step (Talking Drum 2010) gives the listener a generous 70 minutes of originals and standards that cover a kind of updated approach to the funk (in the Horace Silver sense) and late hard bop current as part of the ...
Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra and the Big Box Set
Bassist, key- boardist, sometimes violinist, composer, bandleader, father-figure of the new thing, Alan Silva cannot be dismissed and will not go away. You don't like avant jazz? That's your business. But to anyone else, he's been a seminal force in the new jazz (now coming onto 50 years of age) from the very beginning, playing bass ...
Cylinder Plays New Jazz with a Thoughtful Smoulder
We met up with bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and her notable first album on the Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog (see link on this page). We cross paths with her again today, this time with the group Cylinder (Clean Feed 219). This, as the liner notes tell us, is a San Francisco-based cooperative group. The players share ...
New York Encuentro: Blaise Siwula in Excellent Form with K. Itakura and R. Gilman-Opalsky
Now that what was once called the “new thing" is nearly 50 years young, we have a chance to assess what has gone on so far. Not today, however, since as I write this New Jersey is headed toward 100-plus-degree weather and my office is rapidly becoming an oven with yours truly as the tuna casserole. ...
Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's Intimate and Engaging Solo Album "Faith"
Anyone who has followed the career of Cuba's pianistic dynamo Gonzalo Rubalcaba no doubt has some favorite recordings they especially like of his. Since his wider exposure as an artist to the world there have been many very good and some great ones. But to my knowledge there has been nothing that compares with his recent ...
Bob Nell, Pianist, Puts One Through with "Soft and Bronze"
Those who read my blogs know that I cover many of the very new releases but also think it worthwhile to cover things that might be a few years young, when there is something good about them to contemplate and dig. And so it is that, in the course of interviewing bassist Michael Bisio for All ...
Walt Weiskopf's Quartet Captured Live and Fired Up
Walt Weiskopf occupies a place among the very best but perhaps lesser-known post-Trane tenors. That does not mean that he (or the others) sound like Trane in a direct way. They just have an essential quality to their playing that has some of the Trane hardness, speed of inventive thought and intensity. There's his first live ...
Children of the Blue Supermarket: Dan Raphael's Poetry Melds with Rich Halley's Jazz
Poetry-Jazz collaborations can vary wildly from the “Why?" to the “Wow!" The poetry of course should be worth hearing. But equally, the recitation should have a dynamism of pitch-speech performance excitement. Then of course the jazz needs to relate to all that and in the end be jazz that's worth hearing alongside the poetic meanings evoked. ...
Little Big-Band John Vanore and Abstract Truth Score Points for "Contagious Words"
John Vanore's big band Abstract Truth comes at you in subtle ways on their third CD Contagious Words (Acoustical Concepts 44). It's music that uses all the mainstream notes, but combines them often in ways that are different. It's a 12-person ensemble that has been hanging in since 1981. As a trumpet player himself, John has ...
