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Lafayette Gilchrist: Soul Progressin'
by Chris May
Baltimore pianist Lafayette Gilchrist has a style which satisfyingly combines two very different aesthetics: the funky and the sophisticated. He's been compared to keyboardists and composers Andrew Hill and Sun Ra, but his approach is more closely rooted in bassist Charles Mingus' work as a leader. Where Mingus' rhythmic and emotional foundation for composition and arrangement ...
John Ellis and Double-Wide: Dance Like There's No Tomorrow
by Joel Roberts
That's the low roar of a sousaphone--courtesy of New Orleans' Matt Perrine--you hear on the opening notes of “All Up in the Aisles," the first tune on Brooklyn-based saxophonist John Ellis' soulful Dance Like There's No Tomorrow. A North Carolina preacher's son who spent his formative musical years in the Crescent City before moving up north, ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Lil Tae Rides Again
by James Taylor
Jacob Free Jazz Odyssey's Lil Tae Rides Again unfolds more like an eclectic indie-rock album than the jam band romps they've been known to fashion. A marriage of instrumental post-rock-infused jazz in the vein of Tortoise's brilliant TNT (Thrill Jockey, 1998) and hyperactive avant-funk and digital illbient a la DJ Spooky, Lil Tae is the ultimate ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Lil' Tae Rides Again
by Chris May
With Lil' Tae Rides Again, their first studio album since The Sameness Of Difference (Hyena Records, 2005), the mercurially inclined Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have taken their biggest step so far into the unknown, re-inventing themselves in the process, at least for this project. The band gave unfettered creative control of the finished disc to their ...
My Girl
Album: Brotherman in the Fatherland
By Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 05:15
John Ellis & Double-Wide: Dance Like There's No Tomorrow
by Chris May
The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, which laid waste to much of New Orleans in August 2005, has inspired a clutch albums lauding the city and its people, and lambasting the colossal failure of the US government to pick up the pieces. Some of these tributes have been heartfelt; others have appeared opportunistic, going on cynical. Until ...
Don't Wanna
Album: Husky
By Skerik
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 5:05
Marco Benevento: Invisible Baby
by Doug Collette
Marco Benevento's often intoxicating Invisible Baby has wide appeal for fans of the keyboardist/composer's work with Joe Russo in The Duo as well as those unfamiliar with his previous solo work. It may even beckon the hard-core jazz fan who's open to suggestion without preconception. Based on his Live at Tonic triple set last year, it ...
James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
by Chris M. Slawecki
"Blood wrote these songs that are the essence of the blues," suggests producer and guitarist Vernon Reid. “They're politically incorrect, they're sad and haunting, they're pissed off and on an existential level, they address the complicated concept that is America, which is something Blood's been dealing with since the beginning of his career." You ...
Marco Benevento: Invisible Baby
by Chris May
If you thought keyboardist Marco Benevento and drummer Joe Russo's duo made some noise, you ain't heard nothing yet. If Best Reason To Buy The Sun (Ropeadope, 2005) offended you, step away from the speakers. Benevento was only warming up. When Benevento arrived in New York in 2001, he studied piano with ...
