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Richard Grossman Trio: Even Your Ears
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Richard Grossman passed away in 1992 and unfortunately never received the widespread recognition attributed to many of his peers in modern jazz. Released in 1998 on the Swiss based “Hatology” label, Even Your Ears provides excellent insight into the mind and potent attack of Grossman’s modernist approach to jazz piano and improvisation. The opener and ...
Joe Maneri Quartet: Tenderly
by Robert Spencer
Joe Maneri is a real original. A professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, he has developed a microtonal system involving a 72-note scale, but he is by no means merely a theoretician; on this disc he brings theory to thrilling life in a quartet with his son Mat, who plays a 6-string electric violin, ...
Gregorio/Gustafsson/Nordeson: Background Music
by Robert Spencer
Unimagined hybrids of Richie Kamuca and Evan Parker, Shelly Manne and Paul Lovens, Jimmy Giuffre and Floros Floridos," says John Corbett in his liner notes. Cool free improv. Sound impossible? Guillermo Gregorio, Mats Gustafsson and Kjell Nordeson pull it off on Background Music. Background Music is music on the edge of silence, characterized by intricate mutual ...
Rajesh Mehta Solos and Duos Featuring Paul Lovens: Orka
by Robert Spencer
Rajesh Mehta was born in India, grew up in the United States, and lived in Holland. He aims to do - or help do - for the trumpet what Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Evan Parker have done for the saxophone. He does it on Orka by eschewing the usual standards of trumpet virtuosity and fashioning ...
Ellery Eskelin with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black: Kulak, 29 & 30
by Robert Spencer
Kulak, 29 & 30 was recorded live at Kulak, Berikon, Switzerland, on October 29 and 30, 1997, by the innovative trio of Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone), Andrea Parkins (accordion and sampler), and Jim Black (percussion). In the liner notes Ellery Eskelin explains that I'm constantly looking for structural methods to change existing and assumed paradigms in ...


