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Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver
by Jeff Stockton
Last year the Yo Miles! collective released Sky Garden (Cuneiform), a two-disc set that surveyed ("covered" trivializes its accomplishment) Miles Davis' brand of funky '70s jazz fusion. At over two and a half hours, it was a massive slab of music. Upriver is also a massive slab. And once again it begs the question, “Does the ...
Louie Belogenis: Unbroken / M41: The Orbit of Sirius
by Jeff Stockton
Louie Belogenis Unbroken Tick Tock 2005 Tenor saxophonist Louie Belogenis traces his roots to Coltrane and Ayler explicitly, having recorded as a duo with drummer Rashied Ali and in Prima Materia, a band led by Ali that has recorded album-long interpretations of Meditations and Bells. His agenda is the same ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years: 1971-1979
by Jeff Stockton
In 1971, four years after Coltrane's death, the hole that was left in jazz was intimidating. Ayler, Sanders, Taylor, et al. had pushed free music as loud and as far out as they could, and once dissonance and tumult had made themselves at home, the next generation responded not with more noise, but with silence. Trumpeter ...
Joel Harrison: Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison
by Jeff Stockton
You have every right to be suspicious of anything that claims to interpret the music of a Beatle. Like symphonic Stones, extra-genre covers of the Beatles are most often a mixture of reverence and awkwardness. I've choked down enough Breakfasts with the Beatles to last a lifetime. But on Harrison on Harrison, guitarist Joel Harrison (no ...
Loren Stillman: It Could Be Anything
by Jeff Stockton
In a year when the hottest straight-ahead jazz CD featuring an alto saxophonist was recorded sixty years ago, it's important to remember that we must live in our own times as well. And in jazz music, where players carry on into their '80s, Loren Stillman at 23 is like a ten year-old playing major league baseball. ...
Hamid Drake/Albert Beger/William Parker: Evolving Silence Vol. 1
by Jeff Stockton
The Wyman and Watts of jazz, bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake, traveled to Israel to perform with Roy Campbell in the Pyramid Trio in February, 2005. The next day, after having sat in with the band, Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger recorded his own trio session with Parker and Drake in the studio. The resulting ...
Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar: Tells Untold; Assif Tsahar: Fragments
by Jeff Stockton
Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar Tells Untold Hopscotch 2005 Cooper-Moore doesn't limit himself to the usual range of instruments. When he hears a sound in his head, he invents a device to reproduce it, surrounding himself with a mysterious aura, a shamanistic charisma that creates the sense that he's ...
Cosmosamatics: Magnitudes
by Jeff Stockton
What started as a song title on a trio session for CIMP nearly ten years ago (Transcendence, 1996) has blossomed into one of the most consistent and fruitful partnerships in jazz. The Cosmosamatics (primarily alto elder statesman Sonny Simmons and multireedist Michael Marcus) dabble in bop, post bop, and free jazz, with tightly written and arranged ...
Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano: The Dim Bulb; Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War; Jumala Quintet: Turtle Crossing
by Jeff Stockton
Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano The Dim Bulb Wet Paint 2005 Veteran underground alto/tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty and his much-younger compadre, drummer Chris Corsano, have a bond. As a duo, they most often sound like a thundering herd of elephants, with Corsano cast as the thundering herd and Flaherty as the elephants, ...
Nu Band: Live; Lou Grassi: Avanti Galoppi
by Jeff Stockton
The Nu Band Live Konnex 2005 The Nu Band is not so much a pianoless quartet as it is four players with distinctive voices who engage in creative collective improvisation. Each band member contributes (at least) one composition and each tune spurs the musicians toward inspired interplay. You ...
