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David Liebman: The Distance Runner
by Chris May
A tour de force of spontaneous musicmaking and an object lesson in how to put prodigious technical facility at the service of the music, rather than something to be admired for its own mechanical and ultimately barren sake, master saxophonist Dave Liebman's The Distance Runner is from a solo concert recorded at the Willisau festival in ...
Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6: Into The Barn
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss-reared trumpeter/composer Manuel Mengis is sort of a newbie on the Euro-jazz scene. On this debut effort, he surfaces--through his music and scope of ideas--as a free spirit, although his music merely skirts the free zone during certain movements. Leading his Swiss sextet, Mengis surfaces as a remarkably mature 33 year-old who embraces a ...
David Liebmam: The Distance Runner
by John Kelman
The Distance Runner is not saxophonist Dave Liebman's first solo recording--he's released a handful of them over his forty year career, including the exceptional The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner (CMP, 1985). But his latest release is something special, as it documents his first-ever live solo performance, at Switzerland's 2004 Willisau Jazz Festival--an entirely different ...
Dahinden/Kleeb/Polisoidis/Holdrich: Anthony Braxton (+ Duke Ellington) Concept of Freedom
by Dan McClenaghan
This very free set seems like a bait and switch. Bold orange print on the grey cover proclaims Anthony Braxton (+ Duke Ellington) Concepts of Freedom. But this is not a Braxton CD; you have to check the fine print of the back of the cover to find out it's trombonist Roland Dahinden leading a quartet ...
Steve Lacy: The Way
by AAJ Staff
By Francis Lo Kee The great Steve Lacy, recently departed, made many records, but this one captures a great ensemble at the peak of its creative powers. It's a two-CD set from one concert in Basel in 1979, and it's hard to believe that so much great music was played in one sitting. ...
David Liebman / Ellery Eskelin: Different But the Same
by John Kelman
On first inspection, teaming up saxophonists Dave Liebman and Ellery Eskelin might seem to have the potential for an acute dose of musical schizophrenia. But closer consideration reveals that there is indeed a meeting point. Eskelin may have a reputation as a free player, but he's equally concerned with bringing more traditional aspects into his wildly ...
Marc Copland: Time Within Time
by John Kelman
Solo recordings have their risks and rewards. Risks, because the artist is laid completely bare, with nothing to fall back on but his or her own abilities; rewards because there is the greatest opportunity for pure and unencumbered expression. While Time Within Time is not pianist Marc Copland's first solo release--which was the '01 Sketch release ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye
by Jerry D'Souza
Cecil Taylor Unit One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye Hatology 2004 (1978) It seems to me that what music is, is everything that you do. Those words from pianist Cecil Taylor, in the documentary Imagine The Sound , are a pointer to his craft. A little ...
Anthony Braxton: Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993
by AAJ Staff
As a visionary with a fiercely independent approach to music-making, Anthony Braxton can be difficult to approach. It's not just that his compositions are annotated using pictures, that his musical world view revolves around a highly developed philosophy of restructural cycles, or that he's gone so far as to compose a work for intergalactic orchestra. You ...
Ellery Eskelin: Ten
by Shawn McGrew
This article was originally published under our Call and Response column. It's curious that both Andrea Parkins and Jim Black's names are absent from the front cover of Ten. This marks the tenth year the band has been together and both long-time associates do participate on this project. Despite functioning as the leader, Eskelin's ...
