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Living By Lanterns: New Myth/Old Science
by Troy Collins
First premiered live at the 2011 Chicago Jazz Festival, the material presented on the studio recording New Myth/Old Science was originally commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio. As one of the Windy City's most prominent scene leaders, drummer Mike Reed was given unprecedented access to audition over 700 hours of tape from Sun Ra's El Saturn Audio ...
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012
by Ted Harms
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...
Josh Berman & His Gang: There Now
by Mark Corroto
Josh Berman is a gambler. There Now initially gives the impression that the cornetist's reversion to the music of Eddie Condon and Pee Wee Russell is only a bluff. His gang of young Chicago improvisers weaves in and out of the 1920s, inserting free jazz passages and improvised duos that could not be anticipated in the ...
Mike Reed: People Places and Things: Clean On The Corner
by Mark Corroto
The fourth installment of drummer Mike Reed's People, Place & Things project departs from his original modus operandi of paying tribute to the Chicago jazz and improvised scene circa 1954-1960. Despite this, Reed could not divorce himself of his heritage; Clean On the Corner bristles with the legacy of Chicago's broad sounds and the inspiration of ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms: Spacer
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nelle mani di Adasiewicz il vibrafono sta conoscendo un'ulteriore rinascenza. Specie per la capacità del solista di utilizzare lo strumento sia in funzione ultra percussiva (vedi il lavoro nel gruppo Sound Is di Rob Mazurek) sia squisitamente melodica, jazzistica. Il trio Sun Rooms, qui alla seconda prova discografica dopo il primo disco omonimo, studia un possibile ...
Sun Rooms
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
1. Get in There (Adasiewicz) - 3:44; 2. Life (Adasiewicz) - 6:12; 3. Stake (Adasiewicz) - 4:43; 4. Rose Garden (Adasiewicz) - 6:28; 5. You Can't (Adasiewicz) - 5:55;
6. Off My Back Jack (Hasaan Ibn Ali) - 7:45; 7. Overtones of China (Sun Ra) - 4:59; 8. Warm Valley (Duke Ellington) - 5:52.
Darren Johnston's Gone To Chicago: The Big Lift
by Glenn Astarita
Canada-reared, but calling San Francisco home since 1997, trumpeter and composer Darren Johnston delves into the Chicago's avant, modern-jazz establishment and kicks off a vibrant set, with prominent constituents of The Windy City's fertile soundscape. With The Big Lift, the trumpeter's ascending status within the outer reaches of jazz attains another hierarchical level. Peppered ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms - Spacer (2011)
One of the busiest players in Chicago's jazz/improvised music scenes, the name of vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz always seems to come up when discussing recordings by some of the most dynamic and cutting edge musicians and ensembles from that town. Adasiewicz himself have led a few combos on his own, and the latest, Sun Rooms, ...
Jason Adasiewicz - Spacer (Delmark, 2011)
Re-united with his Sun Rooms group featuring Nate McBride on bass and Mike Reed on drums, Jason Adasiewicz furthers his claim on being the pre-eminent vibraphonist on the progressive jazz scene. A mainstay in Chicago jazz groups as both a leader and valued member of collective ensembles, he is continuing the forward thinking jazz tradition on ...
Cuneiform Records: Growing Progressive Music for 27 Years
by Mark Redlefsen
Twenty seven years is a long time for a niche progressive music label such as Cuneiform Records not just to survive, but to remain inventive and, in the best sense, ambitious. Steve Feigenbaum founded Cuneiform back in 1984, and with his wife, Joyce, runs it from Silver Springs, Maryland. Hosting bands such as Universe Zero, digging ...
