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Marco Benevento: A New Form of Fusion
by James Taylor
With his work has one-half of the Benevento-Russo Duo, Marco Benevento has helped fuse elements of indie rock, improv jazz and jam band aesthetic, exciting nationwide audiences in clean concert halls, smoky bars, and muddy, open-air festivals like Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Benevento is a student of the piano, trained at Berklee School of Music, ...
Free Form Funk Freqs: Urban Mythology Volume One
by James Taylor
Guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer G. Calvin Weston give the power trio new meaning with Urban Mythology Volume One. Released under the moniker the Free Form Funk Freqs, the album is less jazz and more improvisational rock, powered by Weston's double bass drum and heavy crash, hard rock approach and Reid's space-bending, delay-loving ...
Normal Love: Normal Love
by James Taylor
Normal Love is a beautiful mess--I'm sure we can all attest to that. But seriously, Normal Love, the band, is a five-piece ensemble from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that straddles the seemingly distant divide between thrash-metal noisecore and 20th Century composition. Their self-titled debut, on boundary busting record label High Two, is a nerve-tingling exposition, ...
U2's The Joshua Tree Gets Deluxe Multi-Media Treatment in 2007
by James Taylor
U2 The Joshua Tree Eagle Vision USAWhat can you really say about U2's The Joshua Tree that hasn't already been said? Released in 1987, Joshua Tree propelled the band to international stardom and saw the band move further away from their post-punk roots by introducing blues, R&B, gospel and soul to their ...
My Name is Albert Ayler: A Documentary
by James Taylor
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005) Directed by Kasper Collin Screenings November 8 and 9, 2007 Anthology Film Archives New York, NYMy Name is Albert Ayler is a documentary that needed to be made. Directed by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collins, the film is a spellbinding look at one of jazz' ...
William Parker: Corn Meal Dance
by James Taylor
William Parker's Corn Meal Dance showcases the enigmatic figure's best attributes--not as bassist but, instead, as band leader and poet. The release finds Parker again working with his Raining On The Moon Quintet, first featured on Raining On The Moon (Thirsty Ear, 2002). An overall more pop and blues-oriented record than some of Parker's more eclectic ...
Steve Lantner: An Introduction
by James Taylor
Steve Lantner's current run of creative output may be below the radar, but the quality of his recordings is off the charts. His debut as bandleader came in 1997 alongside longtime cohort/violist/violinist Mat Maneri in an adventurous set of duets that had Lantner playing both acoustic piano and a synthesizer set ninety degrees apart [Reaching (Leo)]. ...
ARP of the Covenant: ARP of the Covenant
by James Taylor
Somewhere between electro-jazz and avant-prog-rock rests Minnesota's ARP of the Covenant. The trio's self-titled debut marries electronic and acoustic sounds, eschewing categorization, at times proving to be a rather exciting glimpse at what this band is capable of. Other times... not so much. The band, as its name would suggest, is wholly obsessed ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by James Taylor
Jarring melodies, lively rhythms, electro-jazz-funk, and spoken word fusions--these are the things Matthew Shipp fans have come to associate with the pianist's music. Piano Vortex reminds us that Shipp is a master of his instrument in any format and not just a wily experimentalist, an avant-garde agitator or boundary busting bombast. With Joe Morris (bass) and ...
Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur
by James Taylor
Cinematic Orchestra traverses that narrow divide between acoustic jazz and the electro-infused acid jazz of predecessors and contemporaries like St. Germain, Groove Collective and DJ Greyboy. But the Orchestra treads new ground with Ma Fleur. Jazz breaks become atmospheric compositions of grand proportions, soulful grooves become haunting melodies and the “orchestra of Cinematic's moniker becomes ever ...
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