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David Murray Trio: 3D Family
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
I think of David Murray's long career in two phases: before and after Ming (Black Saint, 1980), the breakthrough album that signalled a substantial jump in maturity as well as a move toward jazz's musical center. But such a division betrays my age. From the distance of nearly thirty years, it's obvious that much of the ...
Warne Marsh: Ne Plus Ultra
by AAJ Italy Staff
Provate a chiedere a qualche buon appassionato di jazz notizie che non siano meno che generiche su Warne Marsh. Con una certa probabilità - e esclusi alcuni “cultori" - le informazioni saranno più o meno quella manciata: la militanza nel gruppo di Tristano, il cool, Konitz, poco di più. Beh, non che il nostro abbia fatto ...
Daniel Levin Quartet: Some Trees
by Nic Jones
This group sets out a highly individual stall within the market of creative improvised music, not simply through the use of unusual instrumentation--and to the extent that even when these musicians tackle compositions by Eric Dolphy, Steve Lacy and Ornette Coleman, they bring to them a refreshing depth of personal interpretation and expression. Levin's own compositions ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: The Eighth
by Chris May
Half man and half force of nature, pianist Cecil Taylor has made his music a mass of opposites and contradictions. Simultaneously exhausting and liberating, primeval and space age, visceral and intellectually rigorous, it's like nothing that went before it and precious little that came afterward. As revolutionary a stylist as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane combined, ...
Steve Lacy & Brion Gysin: Songs
by R. Emmet Sweeney
At the end of 1980, the late Steve Lacy expanded his group to a sextet with the addition of pianist Bobby Few. His first recording with this new configuration was Songs, a 1981 collaboration with poet/painter Brion Gysin, best known for his work with William Burroughs. Lacy and Gysin had worked together as far back as ...
David Liebman: The Distance Runner
by AAJ Italy Staff
Primo disco dal vivo da Dave Liebman in solo, questo The Distance Runner è stato registrato, probabilmente non per caso, poche settimane dopo la morte di Steve Lacy, al quale Liebman succede simbolicamente nel ruolo di massimo sopranista in attività. E allo stesso Lacy è dedicato il brano di apertura, “The Loneliness of a Long Distance ...
Russ Lossing: All Things Arise
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Stuart Broomer's ponderous liner notes to Russ Lossing's latest release correctly point out that the track sequencing suggests a “side one" and “side two," as would an old vinyl album ("the LP of tradition," as Broomer says). The first side is given over to a suite of freely improvised music with echoes (probably unwitting) of various ...
Warne Marsh Quartet: Ne Plus Ultra
by Brad Glanden
As a protégé of Lennie Tristano in the late 1940s and early 1950s, tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh learned lessons that shaped his playing until his death in 1987. He has inspired a cult following among musicians, particularly saxophonists seeking an alternative to the John Coltrane approach, and Ne Plus Ultra fully justifies his status as a ...
Polwechsel: Archives Of The North
by Nic Jones
The process of making music can sustain only so much discussion, and the essay that accompanies Archives Of The North more than adequately covers this abstract material. In any case, Polwechsel's sound world, as with any manifestation of experimental music, is better experienced than analysed. One pertinent reference point is Morton Feldman's singularly reduced minimalism. All ...
Joe McPhee: Survival Unit II with Clifford Thornton, N.Y. N.Y. 1971
by Nic Jones
Without quesion, Joe McPhee is an American national treasure, and this recording offers proof that the idiosyncratic free jazz icon been one for over thirty years now. This disc documents a radio broadcast from at a time when the US was undergoing political and cultural upheavals, and the music is both reflective of such a time ...
