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Michel Lambert: Le Passant (The Wanderer)
by Troy Collins
Montreal-based and conservatory-trained percussionist Michel Lambert conceived the suite on Le Passant as a conceptual conflict, pitting a chamber orchestra against a small group of jazz improvisers. In the liner notes Lambert describes the piece as more struggle than collaboration, an argument as opposed to discussion, improvisation versus composition. The first half of the ...
Michel Lambert: Le Passant (The Wanderer)
by John Kelman
The usual meeting place of improvisation and orchestra works around firm structure where the improvisers solo within the rigid confines of the orchestral arrangements, or the orchestra acts as an underlying support, scored in and around pre-existing extemporization. But in rare cases, daring composers have found ways to allow improvisers to remain untethered while at the ...
Harris Eisenstadt: The Soul and Gone
by AAJ Staff
By Chris DiGirolamo Jazz is a conversation between musicians, and when it comes down to it, the style has an inherent structure. Musicians should have something to say, and drummer/composer/leader Harris Eisenstadt does, without a doubt. The Soul and Gone is indubitably about compositional expression. With the dynamics of a five o'clock traffic ...
Michel Lambert: Le Passant (The Wanderer)
by Jerry D'Souza
Michel Lambert began working on the music on Le Passant (The Wanderer) in 1992. Time, however, brought about changes. He reduced his original symphonic work to its current instrumentation. He calls it a meeting of the two forces and a confrontation between music that is through-composed and freely improvised. The latter is seen in complete detail ...
Harris Eisenstadt: The Soul and Gone
by Jerry D'Souza
Harris Eisenstadt wrote all the compositions on The Soul and Gone, and he recruited a fine band of musicians who never cease to make the music amazing. All of the players have consistently created monuments of aural splendour. This time out is no exception. There is a constant shift of emphasis and shade, subtlety and emphasis, ...
December 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Harris Eisenstadt The Soul and Gone482 Music2005 With succinct unison arrangements by trombonist Jeb Bishop, saxophonist Jason Mears and the other soloists, this ensemble abides by rhythmic underpinnings. Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt is certainly one to watch! And while these motifs are entrenched within intimately devised multipart dialogues and free-form exchanges, ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: Other Stories (Three Suites)
by Kurt Gottschalk
For a young musician, Taylor Ho Bynum has had an impressive career. He's appeared on as many albums as he is years old--that being thirty--and has worked with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, and Anthony Davis. He studied under and toured with Anthony Braxton, and the pair released a strong recording, Duets (Wesleyan) 2002. He's also performed ...
Deborah Weisz Quintet: Grace (For Will)
by Jerry D'Souza
Deborah Weisz makes a strong statement and underlines her credentials as a composer and trombone player on Grace, her second album. She defines different styles with a compact sense of accomplishment, an attribute that also owes its devolution to her fine band. The opening track was written for her brother Will. It is full ...
Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings: Other Stories (Three Suites)
by Jerry D'Souza
Taylor Ho Bynum has immersed himself in different musical idioms over the years, giving voice to many colors in the context of several bands. The so-called SpiderMonkey Strings are one of the avenues he uses as a vent for his imagination. Stimulating the process are eight other musicians whose choice of instruments include violin, cello, viola, ...
Greg Burk: Everyone Should Be Present
by Paul Olson
Pianist Greg Burk first came to listeners' attention during his tenure with Russ Gershon's Either/Orchestra, appearing on their Afro-Cubism and Neo-Modernism albums while simultaneously releasing his own CDs Checking In and Carpe Momentum. This year has seen Burk do the almost impossible: in a jazz world crowded with superstar pianists, he's put out the best piano ...
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