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Mario Pavone: Deez To Blues
by Matthew Miller
Throughout his forty-year career as a professional musician and on seventeen recordings under his leadership, bassist Mario Pavone has shown himself to be a musical maverick whose only concern is pushing himself and his contemporaries. On Deez To Blues, a sextet featuring acerbic trumpeter Steven Bernstein, violinist Charles Burnham and the consummate reed/tuba doubler Howard Johnson, ...
April 2006
by AAJ Staff
Scraping a bow across one vibraphone bar and tickling another with two mallets, Kevin Norton elicited a free improvisation to reacquaint his Bauhaus Quartet. The group unfortunately performs infrequently, comprised as it is of intensely active musicians: John Lindberg on acoustic bass, Dave Ballou on trumpet and the omnipresent Tony Malaby on saxophones. The improv was ...
Mike Reed: In the Context of
by Paul Olson
Pure improvisation can be a challenge for both musicians and listeners. With no compositional road map, the players must enter into a compact of attention and belief that's largely process-based--after all, no one knows where the music's going to go. If they do, they're not improvising, they're assembling already-played licks on the fly. Then there's the ...
Mario Pavone Sextet: Deez to Blues
by Jerry D'Souza
If Mario Pavone were to be greeted with a fanfare of trumpets in celebration of the forty years he has been moulding music into inventive and challenging celebrations, he would probably look for bass and drums to ring the brass. Pavone is known to get the rhythm section out in front, and he continues to do ...
Mario Pavone Sextet: Deez to Blues
by Troy Collins
Bassist, composer and bandleader Mario Pavone leads a new all-star sextet on Deez to Blues, his seventeenth recording as a leader. Pavone's swinging, multi-layered compositions push the tradition forward while always looking back. Like his stylistic forefather, Charles Mingus, Pavone's notion of the jazz tradition is playful yet reverent. By placing the rhythm section at the ...
Ran Blake: All That Is Tied
by Jerry D'Souza
Ran Blake is still spry at 70. The pianist's thoughts are as fertile as one could ever wish them to be, and he makes fulsome use of them as he enunciates with authority on All That Is Tied, a solo recording made forty years after his first album. Time has not stilled his passion; it still ...
Charles Gayle: Time Zones
by Jerry D'Souza
If Charles Gayle had not already made a piano recording (Jazz Solo Piano, Knitting Factory, 2000), this one would have come as a more of a surprise. To repeat what has been said often enough, Gayle is best known as a saxophonist whose horn spews molten lava. But his first love was the piano. And while ...
Charles Gayle: Time Zones
by Nic Jones
As Charles Gayle has forged himself a parallel path as a pianist, he has afforded listeners an entirely different insight into his musical thinking. This is just as it should be with any individual who specialises in instruments as different as the piano and the tenor sax. Time Zones might just be his most successfully realised ...
Jabbo Ware: Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington
by Robert R. Calder
Jabbo Ware Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington 2005 Y'All of New York, Inc. I've not encountered (James) Jabbo Ware's Me, We and Them Orchestra before. He was, I read, born in Georgia and studied in St. Louis. There, when he was eighteen, a music teacher took him to a ...
George Russell
by AAJ Staff
By Ed Hazell At 83, George Russell moves a little slower than he used to and his voice, which has never lost its Midwestern twang, is softer. But his eyes have not lost their amused, intelligent twinkle and he has never lost his passion for making music.“My aim at this point ...
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