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La Grande Perezade: Urban Bush
by Henry Smith
La Grande Perezade is a “mini big band" outfit comprised largely of French jazz and improvisational figures, though “big band" does not begin to describe the sounds within Urban Bush. Conductor and writer jean-Baptiste Perez's compositions stroke broadly across genres as diverse as anthemic fusion rock, free jazz blowouts and brief horn duets without ever losing ...
Evan Parker: Boustrophedon
by Henry Smith
The follow-up to Roscoe Mitchell's Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (ECM, 2007), Evan Parker's Boustrophedon features the saxophonist/improviser conducting and playing with the Transatlantic Art Ensemble, a collected group of musicians from Europe and the U.S. brought together to perform these two semi-composed works for a Symposium for Improvised Music in Munich. The group, consisting ...
The Flying Luttenbachers: Destroy All Music Revisited
by Henry Smith
Still as uncompromising as it was at its release almost ten years ago, The Flying Luttenbachers Destroy All Music Revisited is an amalgamation of so many disparate styles of music that it continues to remain virtually unclassifiable. Formed by percussionist and Hal Russell protégé Weasel Walter in 1994, the group went through numerous personnel changes before ...
Anthony Braxton: Solo Willisau
by Henry Smith
Nearly forty years after the release of his groundbreaking For Alto (Delmark, 1968), Anthony Braxton returns with yet another solo sax album, this time a concert recording, Solo Willisau. Feeding off of the 1,500 grateful attendees, Braxton does again what he has done for so long, breaking down musical walls with his distinguished meshing of intellect ...
Peter A. Schmid / Ned Rothenberg / Matthis Ziegler: El Ni
by Henry Smith
According to Meinrad Buholzer's liner notes, El Niño is, in weather terms, a habitual pattern of intermingling air currents and water temperatures that affects the Pacific Ocean and west coast of Latin America. This serves as a most suitable title for the music of the album, which represents a highly communicative and spontaneous meeting between three ...
Graveyards: Esprit de Corpse
by Henry Smith
Graveyards is a collaborative effort featuring John Olson (of noise group Wolf Eyes) on electronics, saxophone and bass clarinet, Ben Hall on percussion and electronics and Hans Buetow on cello, engaging in a new kind of free improvisation. Although the groupâ????s sound may hint at times to both the most extreme ends of jazz improvisation (the ...
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughan's
by Henry Smith
Trumpeter/vocalist Kermit Ruffins sure knows how to throw a party, and frankly, he should. As the founder of two great New Orleans jazz bands, the Rebirth Brass Band and the Barbeque Swingers, Ruffins has become somewhat of a New Orleans musical diplomat, embracing a vigorous touring schedule that has brought him further from home than many ...
Tuba Fats / Linda Young: After You've Gone
by Henry Smith
Peter Nissen's liner notes indicate that if you want to “find real New Orleans jazz all you've got to do is “go to Jackson Square, ask for 'Tuba Fats,' and he will help you. Well Nissen's right, but Anthony “Tuba Fats" Lacen was far more than a man who would merely help you on your quest ...
Jambalaya Brass Band: What You Lookin' At
by Henry Smith
"The Crescent City" is New Orleans' nickname primarily for one reason: its shape. Starting in the French Quarter, the city's bounds expanded along the curve of the Mississippi River, giving the city a shape that is essentially that of a toenail. This is mentioned only because this expansion didn't stop there. Indeed, groups like the Jambalaya ...
