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Don Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two
by Henry Smith
Don Cherry Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two ESP Disk 2008 Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry has long been a somewhat enigmatic figure. His well known beginnings with saxophonist Ornette Coleman soon gave way to Cherry's increasing interest in world music, where he would become an important ...
The Joel Futterman / Alvin Fielder / Ike Levin Trio: Traveling Through Now
by Henry Smith
Free jazz has always defined itself more by what it is not than by what it is. With an embrace of complete freedom of form comes a nearly infinite realm of musical possibility that has continued to expand since its cultural relevance began in the early 1960s. As various interpretations arose, a sort of nonlinear historiography ...
Jon Hassell: Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street
by Henry Smith
Jon Hassell Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street ECM Records 2009 Coinciding with his first tour of the States in over twenty years, trumpet player and self-described Fourth World musician Jon Hassell returns to ECM for his first release on the label since ...
Ran Blake: Driftwoods
by Henry Smith
Ever since pianist Ran Blake released his debut recordings on The Newest Sound Around (RCA, 1962) with vocalist Jeanne Lee, he has been a leading voice in the original interpretation of classic standards. With the solo outing Driftwoods, Blake dedicates an entire album to the interpretation of songs popularized by his favorite singers, a list which ...
The Holy Modal Rounders: Live in 1965
by Henry Smith
From the Godz to the Fugs to Charles Manson himself, ESP Disk has always had a soft spot for the anarchic side of folk. The Holy Modal Rounders, while perhaps a little less infamous than their label cohorts, were just as wacky and accomplished in their take on the sound. Despite associations ...
Charlie Parker: Bird in Time 1940-1947: Selected Recordings and Rare Interviews
by Henry Smith
Charlie Parker is as mythic a figure as jazz has produced. His influence on the very form of the medium reconfigured the way music was approached in virtually all realms of practice. Yet, as Bird in Time 1940-1947: Selected Recordings and Rare Interviews reveals, his style did not arrive fully formed, but rather was worked toward ...
The Antripodean Collective: Funcall
by Henry Smith
The Antripodean Collective is a quartet of four Australians seeking their own niche in the world of freely improvised jazz. Relinquishing dissonant pyrotechnics in favor of carefully placed event-driven moments, the group nods toward the AACM's spatial framework while still managing to carve out its own place in the improvisational landscape. The ...
Cecil Taylor / William Parker / Masashi Harada: CT: The Dance Project
by Henry Smith
Cecil Taylor's involvement in the dance world might be little known to most fans of the prominent pianist. Yet Taylor honed some of his talents by accompanying ballet rehearsals at a young age, and has continued the practice through his work with such dance luminaries as Dianne McIntyre and Mikhail Baryshnikov. With renowned bassist William Parker ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano Solo '77
by Henry Smith
Pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach has been a mainstay of the European free jazz scene for nearly as long as it has existed, playing with Gunther Hampel and Manfred Schoof in the mid-'60s while forming the still active Globe Unity Orchestra in 1966. His trio with Paul Lovens and Evan Parker has been active since the early ...
Reptet: Chicken or Beef?
by Henry Smith
A sextet based out of Seattle, Washington, Reptet present a sound and message that, in its own words, aptly describes both the group's approach and its broader mission “to compose, interpret and improvise music that inspires growth through freedom and discipline." Working within a good-natured, party band atmosphere, the unit manages to stretch its genre's typical ...
