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Betwixt
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Green Chimneys; Saturn; Break Even; Heaven; Betwixt; Hypochristmutreefuzz; Pinocchio; Brake's Sake; Light Blue; Curt's Escape; Off My Back Jack; Humph.
Joe McPhee / Lisle Ellis / Paul Plimley: Sweet Freedom - Now What?
by Chris May
The older you grow, the more conservative you get and the safer the parameters you set yourself; or so conventional wisdom has it. Now within a whisker of his 70th birthday, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee doesn't so much defy the cliche as explode it; still stretching his music, still protesting against injustice. Sweet ...
Mike Westbrook: Westbrook-Rossini
by Chris May
Whether you believe that opera is the loftiest manifestation of lyric art, or a bastard tradition typified by mannered singing, indifferent acting and an audience that would have Robespierre rubbing his hands in glee, there's no doubt that it has some great tunes. British composer and pianist/tuba player Mike Westbrook gathered a few of them together ...
Michael Adkins: Rotator
by Budd Kopman
From its very first notes, Rotator, by tenor saxophonist Michael Adkins, makes an extremely strong statement. It is a wonderful record, truly engaging, with so much happening without the slightest hint of congestion, that once over, it almost demands an immediate replay. This is an important recording for the simple reason that the ...
Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6: The Pond
by Chris May
Listening to Swiss trumpeter Manuel Mengis' cross-genre Gruppe 6 is to hear an intoxicating melange of musics, from bop and free-bop to skronk and groove, in which the spirit of bassist/bandleader Charles Mingus' jazz workshop lives again, recalibrated by geography and history. Mengis' music is less intense in its passions--less tortured and confrontational--than Mingus,' ...
Michael Adkins Quartet: Rotator
by Chris May
A gigantic album from an extraordinary “new" tenor saxophonist. Rotator is actually Michael Adkins' second disc as leader, but his first--Infotation (Semblance Records, 2005), recorded back in 2000 and five years finding a label--slipped under the radar of many listeners. Thirty-something Adkins, brought up around Detroit but based in New York since 1998, seems to have ...
Georg Graewe/Ernst Reijseger/Gerry Hemingway: Sonic Fiction
by Marc Medwin
This long-standing and prolific international trio's debut finally gets the reissue treatment. Still quite active and stylistically amorphous, the group's first statement remains a bold one, establishing a collective aesthetic that defied boundary and categorization while making its place in history clear. The second part of “Alien Corn" is as fine a point of departure as ...
David Liebman / Richie Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart: Redemption - Quest Live in Europe
by David Adler
In 2005 Quest did Led Zeppelin one better, reuniting all four original members to play gigs in the US and Europe. Active in the 1980s and into the early 1990s, this super-group was just one project that over the decades involved saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach. Interest in the band was renewed by a ...
Theo Jorgensmann & Oles Brothers: Alchemia
by Chris May
Clarinetist Theo Jorgensmann's Alchemia is the third Hat Hut release in a row in which a free improvising, progressive musician has woven overt and telling references to past glories of the jazz tradition into his own, singular style. Cellist Daniel Levin's Blurry (Hat Hut, 2007) evoked the chamber jazz of the 1950s and 1960s ...
Daniel Levin Quartet: Blurry
by Paul C. Dowd
The bold and sinewy musical conversation that takes place over the course of the hour-long Blurry is revealed over multiple listens as nothing short of superb. The third and latest disc from the Daniel Levin Quartet is no small achievement in its staggered pace, yet grounding ease that gradually envelops the listener. The ...
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