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Pablo Aslan: Buenos Aires Tango Standards
by Ivana Ng
The bass is usually an accompanying instrument, but in Buenos Aires Tango Standards, bassist and native Argentinean Pablo Aslan presents the instrument prominently to convey the stealth and sensuality of tango music. When Aslan returned to his native Buenos Aires in 2005 after living in the US for twenty-five years, he found what ...
Oliver Lake Quartet: Live
by Ivana Ng
If you listen to a record long enough, you may find yourself liking it more than you did on first listen. But listening to this live session from the Knitting Factory in May, 2001 repeatedly still does not help Native American wood flutist Mary Redhouse's trilling, whistling, flute playing, which strangely enough often sounds like her ...
Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: A Film by Guy Girard
by Ivana Ng
ICP Orchestra A Film by Guy Girard La Huit 2006 For this film, Guy Girard recorded the ICP Orchestra's performance at Noisy-Le-Sac in France in 2003. Much like the nonet's anarchic free improvisational music, the visual document moves from orderly to chaotic without warning. Psychedelic and kaleidoscopic, the ...
Tyft: Meg Nem Sa
by Ivana Ng
One can only imagine what Hilmar Jensson has done for Iceland's jazz scene when, in our very own Park Slope, his Tyft trio has created a mélange of free jazz, rock and noise. Meg Nem Sa is an impressive second endeavor by Jensson (guitars, electronics), Andrew D'Angelo (alto sax, bass clarinet) and Jim Black (drums, electronics). ...
Natsuki Tamura / Elliott Sharp / Hideki Kato / Satoko Fujii: In The Tank
by Ivana Ng
Live concerts strive for a transcendent quality that can never be translated into CD form. This is especially true for free improvisation, and In the Tank is archetypical of this fact. Natsuki Tamura (trumpet), Elliott Sharp (soprano sax and guitar), Takayuki Kato (guitar) and Satoko Fujii (piano) recorded this concert in 2001 in Japan. The uncomfortable ...
Jeff Healey & The Jazz Wizards with Chris Barber: It's Tight Like That
by Ivana Ng
In the United States, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties yielded a brand of upbeat jazz saturated with sexual innuendo and heedlessness. Across the northern border, Jeff Healey, a Canadian blues-rock guitarist, felt the significance of this traditional jazz. In his latest outing, he and his eight-piece band, the Jazz Wizards, conjur up some old magic. ...
Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk & Soulbop Band Live
by Ivana Ng
Randy Brecker with Michael Brecker Some Skunk Funk Telarc Records 2006 Bill Evans and Randy Brecker Soulbop Band Live BHM Productions 2005 Randy Brecker's latest recordings are ...
Native Soul: Rough Jazz
by Ivana Ng
Native Soul's debut album, Rough Jazz, can be viewed as an evolution from prudent bebop to hard bop with more soulful, daring rhythms. On the first half of the record, Peter Brainin's tenor's blithe timbre provides melodies that are often overpowering; pianist (and Fender Rhodes player) Noah Haidu subtly pulls him back with ...
