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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 ...
Ken Vandermark Predella Group: Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water
by Mark Corroto
Prolific composer/saxophonist Ken Vandermark's first soundtrack Project, Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water, brings together his multiple interests and sound designs, creating a work for the film by Augusto Contento. It can exists as a standalone album, separate from the film, without commentary.Recorded in 2008, Vandermark's Predella Group reunites trombonist Jeb Bishop--an original member ...
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet +1: London, UK, April 18-20, 2011
by John Sharpe
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet +1Café OtoLondon, UKApril 18-20, 2011 Since its inception in 1997, Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet has become one of the foremost large groupings in free jazz, not least because of its unrivalled roster of talent and its durability as a unit. When asked how he had kept such ...
KLANG: Other Doors
by Troy Collins
Though he has long admired the small combo recordings of legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, Chicago-based clarinetist James Falzone never intended to record a tribute to the revered King of Swing. As a former student of modern composition at the New England Conservatory with a strong presence in Chicago's fertile free-improvisation scene, Falzone assumed his youthful gigs ...
Klang: Other Doors
by Nic Jones
With Other Doors, Klang leader and clarinetist James Falzone has documented a body of music he worked on, after being invited to celebrate what would have been Benny Goodman's 100th birthday, at the Chicago Jazz Festival back in 2009. As he's a highly creative individual in his own right, he hasn't gone for any sterile Swing ...
The Engines - Wire and Brass (Okkadisk, 2010) ****
By Joe Higham From what I read on The Engines website this album was recorded live in 2008 at the Hungry Brain (Chicago), shame it's taken so long to get the CD out. So here's your chance to get to hear the second helping (*) of The Engines, a group coming from the windy city, made ...
Nick Mazzarella Trio: Aviary
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Nick Mazzarella keeps things neat and succinct on this shortish (30 minute) introductory release. Although compact, this release is quite loquacious and, perhaps, a presage of great things to come.All six compositions were penned by Mazzarella, and harken back to the early 1960s, and the rise of Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. Mazzarella, ...
Hamid Drake and Bindu: Reggaeology at the London Jazz Festival
by John Sharpe
Hamid Drake and Bindu Baltic Restaurant/London Jazz Festival London November 14, 2010 It's been a long time since the avant-garde has conjured thoughts of dance. You would have to go all the way back to the early days of the Swing era. But that's what came to mind ...
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1
en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona
by Enrique Turpin
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaLuz de Gas7 de noviembre, 2010Fue el domingo un día atípico en Barcelona. La ciudad andaba envuelta en humos de incensarios y cortejos vaticanos de extraño semblante. Los Once de Peter Brötzmann parecía que venían a cumplir una misión; no sólo ...
Paul Hartsaw / Andrew Young/ Jerome Bryerton: Matter & Memory
by Mark Corroto
Improvising trios come and go. When a special session is documented, it focuses attention, clears the mind, and opens pathways to a happening. That is exactly what Matter & Memory accomplishes as an improvised session.Recorded in 2007, this trio of saxophonist Paul Hartsaw, bassist Andrew Young, and percussionist Jerome Bryerton executes these eight impromptu ...
