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Joe McPhee Po Music: Oleo
by Jeff Stockton
Since his return to active recording and performing in the mid '90s, Joe McPhee's music has always been influenced by the palpable joy he takes from exploring the color and texture of sound. That's why it's startling to hear him tear into the familiar Sonny Rollins-penned title track so conventionally. And why it's even more startling, ...
Michael Brecker/Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Saxophone Summit: Gathering of Spirits
by Jeff Stockton
You could argue that every post-Coltrane recording of serious saxophone music has been informed by the legacy and spirit of the man himself. Yet it takes a musician (or musicians) of a particular stature and gravity to pull off an explicit tribute by interpreting some of his legendary compositions without sending you straight back to the ...
Freedomland: Yia Yia
by Jeff Stockton
Freedomland first put forth its low-end theory on 2002's Amusement Park , two 30-minute workouts recorded live at CB's Lounge in New York's East Village. This followup documents the same band a year later in the studio and reassures us that Freedomland's debut wasn't simply a one-off and that the band is a going concern.
Ken Vandermark: Radiale, Gambit, and Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise
by Jeff Stockton
Ken Vandermark continues to issue recordings at a wildly prolific rate, yet for all the similarities, each one of his projects offers something different. And while charting the genealogy of his collaborative relationships can be like figuring out who is brother to whom on a soap opera, the crucial member of the two trios under consideration ...
Donald Harrison: Heroes
by Jeff Stockton
Ron Carter, one of altoist Donald Harrison's heroes and the primary bassist on this recording, makes the point that Harrison comes from New Orleans, but doesn't insist that he does. Harrison approaches his tradition with a pure heart, and from his apprenticeship with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the mid '80s through his own ...
Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass: Blue Jazz
by Jeff Stockton
Malachi Thompson's Africa Brass project embodies all the variety and complexity of his Chicago home base: the urban experience of African Americans transplanted from the rural south; the blending of blues and jazz as musicians stepped out of juke joints and onto the stages of supper clubs; the respect for tradition tempered by the desire for ...
Tony Malaby: Adobe
by Jeff Stockton
Tony Malaby is a five-tool saxophonist who can handle standards, ballads, fiery improvisation, delicate abstraction, and sympathetic accompaniment with equivalent skill. He demonstrates the full range of his talents on Adobe, a trio session with bassist Drew Gress and revolutionary drummer Paul Motian. In this setting, there is no true leader as each player alternately moves ...
Chris Potter Quartet: Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Jeff Stockton
Just as you're about to really get into tenor saxophonist Chris Potter's funky unaccompanied solo on “7.5," the rest of the band charges in, led by Kevin Hays on an electric keyboard sounding like a ringing cell phone. It grabs your attention, and the band doesn't let go for the next fifteen minutes, with Hays soloing ...
Greg Osby: Public
by Jeff Stockton
I know the bills at Blue Note are paid by Miss Norah Jones, but when jazz fans are looking for the sound defined by the label in the '60s, it's comforting to know that the Blue Note legacy can be heard on the label itself. In 2004, Joe Lovano, Jason Moran and Greg Osby are all ...
Marty Ehrlich: The Long View
by Jeff Stockton
Jazz needs composers like Marty Ehrlich. Like his mentor Julius Hemphill, Ehrlich, while proficient in the more conventional small group settings, envisions something greater, hearing music of multiple textures, moods, origins and voicings. Divided into six movements and a postlude, The Long View was originally conceived as aural accompaniment to an exhibition of paintings by Oliver ...
