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William Parker & Hamid Drake: First Communion/Piercing the Veil and Summer Snow
by Jeff Stockton
William Parker and Hamid Drake First Communion and Piercing the Veil: Volume 1 Complete Aum Fidelity 2007 William Parker and Hamid Drake Summer Snow: Volume 2 Aum Fidelity 2007 ...
Careers That Trane Built: Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane
by Jeff Stockton
Pharoah Sanders The Impulse Story Impulse 2006 Alice Coltrane The Impulse Story Impulse 2006 If Impulse was “the house that Trane built , as author Ashley Kahn ...
Black Saint / Soul Note
by Jeff Stockton
Very few among us emerged from the '80s with our dignity intact. But for the Black Saint (and its associated Soul Note) record label, the last half of the decade formed its golden period, when from 1984 to 1989 it won the Down Beat critics poll for “Best Label" and “Best Producer" and established itself as ...
Sonny Simmons: Live at the Cheshire Cat
by Jeff Stockton
In 1980, legendary altoist Sonny Simmons was at his lowest point. Describing himself as “shipwrecked when the gigs dried up and the money ran out, Simmons followed his wife and frequent collaborator, trumpeter Barbara Donald, from San Francisco to Olympia, Washington, with the hope that the change of scene would revitalize their tenuous marriage and put ...
John Medeski / Matthew Shipp: Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery
by Jeff Stockton
Jazz relies on instrumental virtuosity and the reputation of the people making it to distinguish itself, but the Thirsty Ear Blue Series seems to take the opposite approach. Extending the tradition of the Antipop Consortium, the Blue Series Continuum and the Free Zen Society, Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery is another semi-anonymous project that puts producer ...
Matt Lavelle: Spiritual Power and War Rug
by Jeff Stockton
Matt Lavelle Trio Spiritual Power Silkheart 2007 Eye Contact War Rug KMB Records 2007 Jazz trios led by a horn other than a saxophone are something of a rarity ...
Rashied Ali Quintet: Judgment Day, Vol. One
by Jeff Stockton
Rashied Ali has always been unfairly typecast as the guy who usurped Elvin Jones from Coltrane's Classic Quartet, enforcing the dividing line between A Love Supreme and Trane's final phase, when the leader became all dissonant and difficult. Trane knew better than us, of course, but Ali's career after Trane didn't do much to change the ...
JD Parran & Mark Deutsch: Omegathorp: Living City
by Jeff Stockton
JD Parran is a consummate musician's musician, a multi-reedist who has performed in a wide variety of settings, most notably with Julius Hemphill and members of St. Louis' Black Artists Group, as well as Anthony Braxton's ensembles; he was also a member of the horn section Robbie Robertson introduces at the start of The Band's Rock ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Weaving Symbolics
by Jeff Stockton
Philosopher, conceptualist, theoretician and supremely original alto saxophonist Steve Coleman has issued more than twenty albums over the last twenty years under his own name, all of which helped perpetuate his notion of the M-Base (macro-basic array of spontaneous extemporization) collective. Less a musicians' club than a way of thinking about music creation, Coleman and his ...
Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride
by Jeff Stockton
When leukemia claimed Thomas Chapin at the age of forty in 1998, his mixture of the avant garde and the accessible placed him and his rhythm section at the verge of jazz stardom. Already a downtown NYC legend, Chapin was among the first artists to perform at the Knitting Factory and the first to be signed ...
