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Ehrlich/Dresser/Cyrille: C/D/E
by AAJ Staff
At some point in its history, free jazz differentiated into two forms: chamber music-style improvisation and in-your-face adventurism. Some free players prefer to use silence and nuance as tools for measured cadences, while others go for the all-out emotional release as a tool for catharsis. This trio is interesting because it includes elements from both traditions ...
Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich: C/D/E
by AAJ Staff
Having begun in 1996 as an intended quartet for the Knitting Factory's What Is Jazz Festival, “B/C/D/E" soon dropped the “B" when cornetist and trumpeter Bobby Bradford was unable to attend for financial reasons. Ever since, “C/D/E"--or Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser and Marty Ehrlich--has maintained the spirit of Bradford's and John Carter's music in their performances. ...
Mary Ann McSweeney: Thoughts Of You
by AAJ Staff
If you haven't heard of bassist Mary Ann McSweeney, you should. After years of work on both coasts with names like Dizzy Gillespie and the Diva Big Band, McSweeney has released a brilliantly conceived and executed album that she leads.The fact that McSweeney leads Thoughts Of You is another reason for attention. Few bassists ...
Mary Ann McSweeney: Thoughts of You
by Glenn Astarita
Jazz bassist Mary Ann McSweeney possesses a smooth touch and conveys a warm, organic tone throughout these eight affable pieces. She commences the opener, “R.B.’s Tribute” with a peppery ostinato motif as the sextet expounds upon the primary theme via a mid tempo swing, featuring young tenor sax dynamo Donny McCaslin’s brawny and angular phrasing. The ...
Archie Shepp: St. Louis Blues
by Mark Corroto
Several recent sightings of the ‘bird’ known as Archie Shepp signal, perhaps, his return to the American dialogue on jazz. Last year, Shepp made a guest appearance on guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly’s African/urban Boom Bop record and the year before he was the featured guest of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio recording, Conversations. Shepp’s voice in the 1960’s ...
Jorge Sylvester Afro-Caribbean Experimental Trio: In the Ear of the Beholder
by AAJ Staff
Jazz artists often approach Afro-Caribbean music from a reductionist rhythmic standpoint, neglecting the richness of the tradition. But Jorge Sylvester takes care to present the whole picture on In the Ear of the Beholder. Taking various Afro-Caribbean styles and paring them down to a raw trio format (sax/bass/drums), he compels each player to bring something unique ...
Jean-Paul Bourelly: Boom Bop
by Mark Corroto
Jazz has always been about the fusion the different music. And at one time way back, so was rock, country and classical. Now they become what is called ‘cross-over’ music, usually a watered down sound, that neither genre finds acceptable. Guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly probably doesn’t consider himself a jazz musician, with all the limitations the definition ...
Steve Lacy: Snips: Live at Environ
by Robert Spencer
1976. Lacy, long in exile, appeared in a loft in New York. People sat on couches or on the floor to hear him play solo. The music would have been gone in the air were it not for a young man named Jim Eigo. The recording is a bit dodgy here and there - was the ...
Jean-Paul Borelly: Boom Bop
by AAJ Staff
While the tag, “with Archie Shepp and Henry Threadgill” on the cover of Boom Bop might make pulses of a certain age quicken with anticipation, the two saxophonists don’t play together on the disc. However, the handful of appearances by each, on this bewitching set of Afrocentric music, provides the icing on a cake whose many ...
Snips
By Steve Lacy
Label: Jazz Magnet Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: CD1: hooky; the new york duck; the 4 edges: outline (air), underline (fire), coastline (water), deadline (earth);
snips. CD2: pearl street; tao: (a) existence; (b) the way; (c) bone; (d) name; (e) the breath; (f) life on its way;
revolutionary suicide.
