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Tchicai/Fewell/Tracanna/Dalla Porta/Manzi: Big Chief Dreaming
by Jerry D'Souza
In an interesting note in the liner booklet for Big Chief Dreaming, guitarist Garrison Fewell says that the band dwelt on the role that inspiration and exploration played in shaping artistic vision. That question is answered in the path they took, or to put it more accurately, the paths. Explorations of the written note and improvisations ...
Tom Christensen: Outside the Comfort Zone
by Paul Olson
Reedsman Tom Christensen's third and newest CD, New York School, may be the best jazz album of the year, but he hasn't appeared out of nowhere; his years of sidework--for example, with the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra--and his two previous albums under his own name have steadily impressed people in the jazz world, converting them to ...
Cinzia Spata: 93-03
by John Kelman
With a veritable plethora of jazz singers devoting the majority of their time to endless reinterpretation of the Great American Songbook, it's refreshing to come across someone who, in addition to writing her own mainstream material, chooses to examine less-travelled sources. Italian singer Cinzia Spata may not yet be well known in North America, but by ...
Tchicai/Fewell/Tracanna/Dalla Porta/Manzi: Big Chief Dreaming
by John Kelman
Much continues to be written about the global reach of jazz. Vibrant jazz scenes are scattered around the world in what might have been considered unlikely locations in years past, like Slovenia, the Ukraine, and Scandinavia. While each region brings its own cultural viewpoint into play, some of the most intriguing music happens when artists from ...
Tom Christensen: New York School
by AAJ Staff
Modern jazz sometimes seems a bit schizophrenic, caught between the extremes of intellectual abstraction and spiritual seeking, and the more ambitious sort often fails because it can't find intuitive connections between the two. Horn multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen's third release in six years is a pleasure from start to finish because it manages to simultaneously embrace thought ...
Natto Quartet: Thousand Oaks
by John Kelman
Recorded at a live performance in the Maybeck Studio of Berkeley, California, Natto Quartet's second recording, Thousand Oaks, builds upon the group's first recording, Headlands. It continues to explore a variety of junctures--most specifically the meeting points of different cultures, and of texture and tonality. The quartet's unconventional lineup includes Philip Gelb (one of but a ...
Anthony Braxton/Matt Bauder: 2 + 2 Compositions
by John Kelman
Having the opportunity to watch woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer Anthony Braxton perform one of his compositions in concert provides a distinct insight into just how directed his pieces--which sometimes give more of an impression of random activity when experienced on record--really are. Looking at one of them on paper can be even more revealing. While standard notation may ...
Mario Pavone: Boom
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Bassist/composer Mario Pavone split his previous CD between trio and quintet groupings. On Boom he takes the mean, leading an adventurous quartet with longtime collaborator pianist Peter Madsen, omnipresent drummer Matt Wilson, and the industrious Tony Malaby, Pavone's most recent saxophone foil. The quartet deftly navigates Pavone's charts with tightly knit, rhythmically charged ensemble heads and ...
Rosenberg/Baker/Hatwich/Daisy: New Folk, New Blues
by Jerry D'Souza
Notch another one for the Document Chicago Series as Scott Rosenberg returns to the Windy City with his saxophones to churn a storm with Jim Baker, Anton Hatwich, and Tim Daisy. All four are responsible for the quartet of compositions on New Folk, New Blues that take collective improvisation into an adventurous sphere. The shifts of ...
Tom Christensen: New York School
by Jerry D'Souza
Art begets art. Tom Christensen composed the music for this record based on the work of a group of poets and painters from the fifties and sixties known as the New York School. Frank O'Hara wrote some of his poems inspired by the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Grace Hartigan. In turn, some of ...
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