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David Borgo, with and Against, 1998
I've been covering David Borgo's music on these pages with a number of postings (do a search in the search box to find the others). That's because I find him one of the important West Coast voices today, as tenor-soprano stylist and as composer-conceptualist. If I retrace steps today to go back to one of his ...
The Jonathan Parker Group Holds Forth from Shanghai
Where I stand with hard bop is where I stand with a number of styles. It has to have that “some- thing" or there's no use even trying. Hard bop done right is not a music that some old lady would say of, “Oh my, that's nice!" At least not the old ladies that were old ...
Delfeayo Marsalis's New Version of Ellington's "Sweet Thunder"
Duke Ellington's post Newport-1955 work for Columbia to me is one of the cornerstones of his output. The suite in tribute to Shakespeare, Such Sweet Thunder, first recorded for the label during that period, I rank high on the list of my Ellington favorites. So when I found that trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis had created a new ...
Angelica Sanchez's Solo Piano Debut "A Little House"
Every solo piano album by an improvising artist does not have to be the same as the ones by the rest of the bunch. I've found that some are more the same than others. I've found that Angelica Sanchez's debut in this realm, A little House (Clean Feed 206), is not only not the same, it's ...
Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet, 2004, "Be Music, Night"
Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet combines some of the finest avant improvisers out of Chicago and Europe. For a such a logistically and musically complex multi-member outfit they've had a rather long and significant life. And they still flourish today, as witnessed by their recent European tour. We turn the clock back to 2004, and a Tentet ...
Starlicker Trio (Mazurek, Adasiewicz, Herndon) Turns up the Heat on "Double Demon"
The trio Starlicker (as heard on their release Double Demon, Delmark DE2011) is not your usual line-up playing the usual sorts of things. First off the instrumentation is not at all the norm. There's Rob Mazurek on cornet, Jason Adasiewicz, vibes, and John Herndon on drums. What this means in terms of sound has much to ...
Karlowicz (1876-1909) and His Rebirth Symphony
There's good reason why you probably have never heard of composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. He was on the verge of international recognition and full musical maturity when he was killed in an avalanche while on a skiing trip. Fortunately for us he had created a small but very interesting body of work in the late-romantic vein. His ...
Alex Vittum Creates a Sound Poem for Drums-Percussion and Electronics on "Prism"
The drum set is not just that noisy contraption that disturbs parents' peace of mind for years at a stretch with barrages of cracks, crashes and ba-booms (and I must admit I was guilty of doing that to my folks while growing up). It is of course a MUSICAL instrument, capable of holding its own (in ...
Fred Hersch, Improvising Pianist, Alone at the Vanguard
Fred Hersch plays one hell of a piano. He was very ill several years ago, in a near-death coma- state, but most thankfully he's recovered and back at it. The live solo disk Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto 2147) shows a certain even deeper level of profundity than the usual, which I have to believe comes ...
Gerhard Stabler's Modern String Orchestra Work "Zeichen"
Post 509. Who's counting really? I did neglect to note post 500, though. So we mark the progression at this juncture. The blogs do in part document my personal odyssey through the world of “serious" music today and I have come out of it thus far with a profound respect and appreciation for those artists and ...
