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Gratkowski/Brown/Winant: Wake
by Jerry D'Souza
Intuition plays a major role in the music that Frank Gratkowski, Chris Brown and William Winant construct. All are freedom riders who conjure unusual patterns.Rumination is often the take-off point. “Slide" builds an ethereal atmosphere. The notes of the saxophone wisp around as Brown scurries on the piano. The atmosphere takes gradual shape, an ...
Basement Research: Don't Touch My Music
by Jerry D'Souza
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Gebhard Ullmann lays down the ground rules without ado with the slam-bang title Don't Touch My Music. There should be no qualms about that, Ullmann's music is made to draw rapt attention. The closer one listens, the more there is to discover. Ullmann brings in an evolving, and revolving, cast of characters to ...
Peter Sommer: Crossroads
by Jerry D'Souza
Tenor saxophonist Peter Sommer is at the Crossroads with Rich Perry (tenor saxophone), Eric Gunnison (piano), Ken Walker (bass) and Todd Reid (drums), as they parlay a selection of standards and originals into an interesting journey through focus and commitment. Sommer is not apprehensive in reshaping a standard and taking it in ...
Ensemble 56: 1st Meeting: Towards Sky Flight of Dragon
by Jerry D'Souza
Attila Dora, Rafal Mazur and Mieczyslaw Gorka sought inspiration from the ancient Chinese book “The Wanderer" by I Ching in calling themselves Ensemble 56. They conceptualize the philosophy of strangers meeting and interacting through their music, all of which is improvised in real time. Spontaneous, improvised music is an art in its own. Dora, ...
Sheila Jordan: Winter Sunshine
by Jerry D'Souza
Sheila Jordan has stamped her class as a jazz singer over a career that has spanned 60 years. She has an articulate sense of phrasing and rhythm and she can ad lib at the turn of a note, but it is the emotion she draws out of a lyric that makes her standout. Jordan proves her ...
The Fred Hess Band: Single Moment
by Jerry D'Souza
Tenor saxophonist Fred Hess has been something of an adventurer with his music. He has not only gone past the obvious in his interpretation of tunes, he has also been unafraid to get into different genres. That he has been successful tells his tale. Hess adds guitarist Dale Bruning to his tried and true ...
Quinsin Nachoff: Horizons Ensemble
by Jerry D'Souza
Saxophonist and composer Quinsin Nachoff continues his journey into chamber and contemporary music in his quest to extrapolate musical forms, as he leans into classical music and tempers it with his sense of jazz harmony. The two streams, reflected in his compositions, entwine and flow majestically on his self-released Horizons Ensemble. His players rise to meet ...
Jazz Arts Trio: Tribute
by Jerry D'Souza
Recreating music note-for-note is fraught with pitfalls. It could be as palatable as drinking a soda after all the fizz has escaped or it could stand deep in the shadow of the original. But as the saying goes, imitation is the best form of flattery and the Jazz Arts Trio makes that apparent as they reinterpret ...
Tony Malaby Cello Trio: Warblepeck
by Jerry D'Souza
The old and the new come together on Warblepeck, saxophonist Tony Malaby's first CD as leader since 2003. Malaby has played previously with multi-instrumentalist John Hollenbeck, defining new paths and trajectories through music that has stirred and stimulated the senses. Neither of them had worked with Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello and electronics), who has made his own ...
Ablaye Cissoko + Volker Goetze: Sira
by Jerry D'Souza
Music has long transcended geographical and cultural barriers to forge new sounds. That bond is manifested once more in the collaboration between vocalist and kora player Ablaye Cissoko and trumpeter Volker Goetze. Cissoko and Goetze met in 2001 at the African-European Jazz Orchestra rehearsals in Senegal, where they were to open for Youssou N'Dour. ...
