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Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House
by Nic Jones
Ingrid Laubrock's trajectory through the music reflects her choice of home. German-born, when she resided in London she was producing Latin jazz, but that proved to be only a passing phase. By the time of Forensic (F-IRE, 2004), it was clear that she was more intent on carving out an idiosyncratic space of her own. Now, ...
Tommy Meier Root Down: The Master And The Rain
by Mark Corroto
Swiss-born reed man Tommy Meier's immersion into African jazz dips into a body of music covering three continents touched by the African diaspora of people and sound. A follow-up to Root Down (Intakt, 2008), his Root Down orchestra's The Master And The Rain, once again, offers a large ensemble update on the music of Fela Kuti ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House
by Chris May
Her music has grown exponentially in the intervening years, but there are passages on saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House which resonate strongly with her 2004 album, Forensic (F-IRE), the disc which announced her emergence as a soloist and bandleader of propitious substance and originality. The connection is the beat. Until now, Laubrock's post-Forensic albums, notably Sleepthief (Intakt, ...
Urs Leimgruber - Christy Doran - Bobby Burri - Fredy Studer: Om Willisau
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il festival jazz di Willisau di fine agosto 2008 è stata l'occasione per la riunificazione del gruppo Om che negli anni settanta aveva evidenziato al mondo intero la fertile attività di alcuni gruppi radicali nella patria del cioccolato e del formaggio coi buchi. La radio svizzera non si è lasciata sfuggire una ghiotta occasione come questa ...
Elliot Sharp/Carbon: Void Coordinates
by Glenn Astarita
Nearly every album by guitar whiz Elliot Sharp intimates a sound-shaping experience, loaded with surprises and ingenuity. His long-running Carbon band is primarily steeped in hardcore avant-garde rock mania, spiced with sizzling meltdowns and free-jazz style improvisation. On “Fermion," the quartet launches a haunting sonic assault, which at times may seem like anti-pop morphed ...
Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau
by Nic Jones
The Schlippenbach Trio is now decades old; perhaps it's not surprising there are only a few improvised music groups that have lasted that long. In this trio's case the matter of pedigree goes without saying, but whether or not the depth of their familiarity with each others' work makes for sterile, unrewarding music, is a question ...
Steve Lacy: November
by Nic Jones
The world of improvised music lost one of the greats when Steve Lacy ceased walking this earth. His music was as singular as that of anyone who has graced that world, and the fact that he chose to communicate exclusively through the medium of the soprano saxophone had the effect of elevating him to a rare ...
Michael Jaeger: Kerouac
by Nic Jones
The quartet of Jaeger, pianist Vincent Membrez, bassist Luca Sisera and drummer Norbert Pfammatter has been together for five years and the depth of playing experience that implies is evident in this release. The balance of the new and the familiar is rarely struck with such precision as this ensemble manages, but the presence of guests ...
Steve Lacy: November
by Mark Corroto
Even without the back story of November, the music of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy exists on its own merits. Compare this live recording to the two dozen-plus solo sessions by this master, and it stands up to any of them. Not that Lacy was in his finest form here, having been diagnosed with liver ...
Xu Fengxia - Lucas Niggli: Black Lotos
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci sono una cantante di Shanghai che vive in Germania e un batterista svizzero nato in Camerun da madre cinese. Pare l'incipit di una storiella, e invece è un piccolo miracolo di globalizzazione cultural-musicale. Lei è Xu Fengxia, cantante e virtuosa di strumenti tradizionali, trascinata in ambito impro dall'incontro, illuminante, con il fu Peter Kowald; lui ...
