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Sao Paulo Underground: Tres Cabecas Loucuras
by Troy Collins
Três Cabeças Loucuras (Portuguese for “three crazy heads") is the third release from São Paulo Underground to explore the furthest fringes of Brazil's revolutionary Tropicalia movement. Updating the renowned genre's patented psychedelia with free improvisation, laptop-driven electronica and musique concrete, the album unveils a spectrum of kaleidoscopic sound that pushes the bounds of each style to ...
Gary Burton Quartet: New York, NY, September 21, 2011
by Dan Bilawsky
Gary Burton QuartetBlue NoteNew York, NYSeptember, 21, 2011 Lionel Hampton carved out a place for the vibraphone in a swing setting, and Milt Jackson brought the instrument into bop, but Gary Burton remains the guru and guiding light in virtually every other aspect for vibraphonists and fans the world over. ...
Delmark Records: New Jazz and Blues Releases for the fall
Available October 25, 2011 Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms Spacer Delmark CD (DE 2012) / LP (DF 2012) Sun Rooms is Jason Adasiewicz's three year old trio featuring Jason (vibraphone), Mike Reed (drums) and Nate McBride (bass). Their debut record Sun Rooms (Delmark 593) was named by the New York Times (Ben Ratliff) as one of the ...
Rob Mazurek's Starlicker: Double Demon
by Nic Jones
Starlicker is a trio which crosses the genres with ease and a healthy disregard for categorization. Cornetist Rob Mazurek is one of those musicians more preoccupied with the future of improvised music than with its glorious past. Much the same can be said for vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, who once again proves himself to be one of ...
Vision Festival: Day 4, June 8, 2011
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Days 2-3 | Day 4 | Days 5-6 | Day 7 Peter Brötzmann Quartet / Jason Adasiewicz/Peter Brötzmann Pulverize The Sound / Peter Brötzmann QuintetVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 8, 2011 Each year the Vision Festival honors one of its own--someone ...
Arrington De Dionyso, Mary Halvorson, Liturgy, Sightings, Peter Brotzmann & Pulverize The Sound
by Martin Longley
Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa Cake Shop May 25, 2011 When I first witnessed the singer, reedsman, guitarist and performance artist Arrington De Dionyso at The Stone, he was working as a solo act, exploring extended timbres, textured multiphonics, confrontational starkness and isolated honking eruptions. In more recent ...
Peter Brotzmann: Vision Festival 16, June 8, 2011
by Warren Allen
Peter Brötzmann QuartetAbrons Art Center Main StageNew York, NYJune 8, 2011 On a hot June night in downtown NYC, the Vision Festival welcomed German tenor saxophonist Peter Brötzmann to the main stage of the Abrons Art Center. Famously nicknamed “Machine Gun" early on in his career by Don Cherry, for ...
Peter Brotzmann Rises and Shines on Wednesday at Vision Festival 16.
TRIBUTE TO A LIVING LEGEND Peter Brotzmann:Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement Each year, the Vision Festival honors the achievements of one living artist who has greatly influenced the world around them and paved the way for other innovators to move forward. On Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 Arts For Art and The Vision Festival will celebrate a ...
Lineage and Vision Festival 16: June 5-11
So much of our experience is increasingly place-less as franchise smiles crafted by human resources consultants greet us daily no matter what the biome or weight of memory. The fast food smile and store floor uniform must ever be the same. Crowd counts displace quality practices with childlike aspirations toward some eternal Superbowl as the only ...
Rob Mazurek's Starlicker: Double Demon
by Mark Corroto
It may seem like an anomaly to suggest that a jazz ensemble has to strip down to power up, but Starlicker does just that. Cornetist Rob Mazurek disassembled his Exploding Star Orchestra (which regularly has more than a dozen players) and Quintet into just a trio, with remaining players, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and drummer John Herndon. ...
