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Wasilewski/Kurkiewicz/Miskiewicz: Trio
by Glenn Astarita
This Polish piano trio has been backing the country's best-known jazz trumpeter, ECM Records solo artist Tomasz Stanko. With this release, the musicians get their day in the sun, so to speak. Falling in suit with the label's somewhat ethereal aesthetic--particularly when considering similar European piano trios--this band fuses melodic charm with probing structures and colorific ...
April 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Jethro Tull(DVD) Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970Eagle Rock Entertainment2005 New limited edition DVD of the famed British rock band performing in front of 600,000 fans, which by all accounts represents the largest audience in the annals of pop. This wonderful footage highlights Tull's early stages, ...
Alan Pasqua: My New Old Friend
by Glenn Astarita
When he was a member of drummer Tony Williams' jazz/fusion Lifetime unit back in the 1970s, pianist Alan Pasqua frequently conveyed a delicate touch when performing on electric keys. Yet after all these years, he is first and foremost a jazz pianist. With his latest piano trio effort, Pasqua garners sensitive support from the top-flight rhythm ...
London Improvisers Orchestra: 2003-4: Responses, Reproductions & Reality
by Glenn Astarita
Consisting predominantly of British free improvisers, this consortium is captured in live performance at the Freedom of the City festival on two dates: May 4, 2003 and May 3, 2004. With over thirty musicians, the orchestra's creative ways are partly signified by call and response dialogues, layered horns, and multicolored contrasts. Effectively, the artists pursue a ...
The Fonda/Stevens Group: Forever Real
by Glenn Astarita
These days, there are few modern jazz groups which can seamlessly merge elements of free improvisation with mainstream and post-bop stylizations, while still maintaining a signature group sound. The Fonda/Stevens Group is partly about the sum of its parts, where the respective musicians emerge as stylists by honing a group-based methodology that stands on its own. ...
Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion
by Glenn Astarita
Various band members contribute compositional frameworks as a backdrop of sorts for Rinde Eckert's lyricism and recitations on this idyllically focused jazz work. And it's drummer Jerry Granelli's brainchild as he lays down the rhythms for a potpourri of acoustic-electric tunes structured upon medium-tempo rhythms and jazzy dreamscapes. Eckert's likeable recitals are cleanly delivered ...
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Ithaca
by Glenn Astarita
Inspired by two architects and underscored by Irish artist George Vaughn's piece Ithaca, bassist Barry Guy and his bandmates enact various planes and emotive elements on this superb effort. With this outing--and a second trio date for Intakt Records--the trio morphs tumultuous crosscurrents with driving and oddly balanced rhythms. Guy, pianist Marilyn Crispell, and ...
Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: Brand New
by Glenn Astarita
The trio's second release for this Dutch jazz record label rings something akin to enjoying one of life's guilty pleasures. On this effort, highly-regarded pianist Marc Copland realigns with two modern jazz heroes, trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler and guitarist John Abercrombie. And it's clearly about like-minded peers merging their distinct voices for a unification of the jazz ...
Roger Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: The Butterfly and the Bee
by Glenn Astarita
Former Brotherhood of Breath drummer Louis Moholo and British free-form acoustic guitarist Roger Smith lay their cards out on the table during this extremely attractive studio set. Essentially, neither man acts as an antagonist here. It's more about intrinsic communication, topped off with acutely enacted improvisations featuring great depth and variable rhythmic maneuvers. Moholo's complex drumming ...
March 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Adam GreenMoving AlongRough Trade2005 Think of a protest singer rolled into a Jim Morrison delivery, topped off with compositions that hearken similarities to pop icon Burt Bachrach. New York City singer/songwriter Adam Green sometimes conveys a mood of a torch singer iterating about drugs, sex and rock n' roll via ...
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