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Ellery Eskelin: Five Other Pieces (+2)
by Robert Spencer
Tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin just keeps getting better. On this disc he explores some of the music that has mattered to him over the years, and it's a wide range: from Mahavishnu John McLaughlin's “The Dance of Maya" through Coltrane's “India," Lennie Tristano's “April," and even George Gershwin's “Prelude II." In the liner notes Eskelin says, ...
Steve Lacy Seven: Clich
by Robert Spencer
Clichés is a partial reissue of the Hat Hut double LP Prospectus, but tape deterioration unfortunately ate up a portion of the original 1982 recording, including the former title track. So: Clichés is what remains, a CD-length look at Lacy's long-running and protean sextet, augmented by trombonist George Lewis. Although almost twenty years have passed, this ...
Mat Maneri Trio: So What?
by Robert Spencer
Mat Maneri, the world's challenging microtonal electric violinist, explains that he once studied Baroque violin, in which the bowing style creates an “almost horn like sound." He goes on to explain that “I'm not trying to get a horn sound now, but I am trying to get horn phrasing." Certainly there are moments on So What? ...
Jon Lloyd: Four and Five
by Robert Spencer
Alto and soprano saxophonist Jon Lloyd explains about this release that “the compositions for this group were designed to be played with less of a pulse-driven approach than my earlier work with the Jon Lloyd Quartet - the ebb and flow of the music takes place organically according to the direction each performer wishes to take." ...
Ellery Eskelin & Han Bennink: Dissonant Characters
by AAJ Staff
Tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin has always demanded a lot from his drummers. Having worked with some of the most virtuostic drummers alive, including Joey Baron and Jim Black, Eskelin has high standards for the rhythm section--because his unpredictable, angular phrasing demands immediate attention and a lightning response. Dutch master drummer Han Bennink, of course, has long ...
Ran Blake: Something to Live For
by Robert Spencer
Ran Blake is not precisely a minimalist, although he is seldom loquacious, and has a spare and virtually unerring sense of placement. He is transcendently evocative without ever lapsing into easy sentimentality, and can sum up, with just a few notes, effects that a hundred thrashers and bashers never approach. He can whisper. He can sing ...
Guillermo Gregorio Trio: Red Cube(d)
by Robert Spencer
With encompassing subtlety and delicacy of touch, Guillermo Gregorio, Pandelis Karayorgis, and Mat Maneri range over the musical spectrum on this disc. Without the theatrics of Sun Ra, but with a kindred sensibility, the trio turns from the unstintingly abstract “Crimson Mountain" to Fletcher Henderson's “Red Dust." Gregorio's clarinet catapults back in time for a moment ...
Clusone 3 (hat Hut: Rara Avis
by Robert Spencer
“We all know how 20th century composers from Messiaen to Ellington to Dolphy cribbed melodies" from birds, says Kevin Whitehead in the liner notes to this collection of fourteen bird songs by the celebrated Clusone 3: Michael Moore (alto sax, clarinet, melodica), Ernst Reijseger (cello), and Han Bennink (drums). None of those three are represented on ...
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