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Mark Alban & Islak Kopek: Istanbul Improv Sessions May 4th
by Jerry D'Souza
Flautist Mark Alban Lotz played two concerts of improvised music with different bands of musicians in Istanbul in May 2010. Istanbul Improve Sessions, May 5th (LopLop Records, 2011) was the first to be released. The performance from the previous day, with Islak Köpek, now makes its appearance and finds Lotz playing in real time duo, trio ...
The Andrew Dickeson Quintet: Weaver of Dreams
by Jerry D'Souza
Australian drummer Andrew Dickeson makes a strong recording debut as leader with a well-chosen selection of standards. Dickeson has been a sideman for over 25 years, having begun his professional career when he was 13. Born into a musical family, he began playing the drums when he was 10. He moved briefly to New York in ...
Andre Goudbeek / Le Quan Ninh / Peter Jacquemyn: Uwaga
by Jerry D'Souza
The Alchemia, in Krakow, Poland, has long been the venue for a series of free jazz and improvised music concerts. The lineup never flags for want of extraordinary musicians, and time has witnessed the likes of Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, William Parker and Peter Brötzmann on that stage. Alto saxophonist André Goudbeek, bassist Peter Jacquemyn and ...
FAB Trio: History of Jazz in Reverse
by Jerry D'Souza
It is a travesty of fate--and of the American jazz establishment--that violinist Billy Bang never received the recognition he merited. Hosannas have been sung to him, many of them after he died, but the fact remains that he was kept on the periphery despite an admirable body of work. His virtuosity can be witnessed on recordings ...
Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio: Clustrophy
by Jerry D'Souza
When a band parlays different styles and moods into one defining experience, as saxophonist Mikko Innanen and Innavista do on Clustrophy, it would be easy for some of the music to slip down the hatch of inconsequence. The band, however, keeps this at bay with an avid sense of observation and release, letting structure stamp the ...
Milan Stanisavljevic: Awakening
by Jerry D'Souza
Milan Stanisavljević evokes the intimacy of a trio to set up some evocative images on his debut CD, Awakening. The pianist has his vision and his focus in clear perspective; this is a jazz recording, the music well within the mainstream, even as Stanisavljević finds his calling in swing and blues. Tempering that approach is the ...
Lajos Dudas / Hubert Bergmann: What's Up Neighbor?
by Jerry D'Souza
When clarinetist Lajos Dudas read about a workshop for new and improvised music in his town of Lake Constance, at the foot of the Alps, he was taken aback. Long a proponent of free jazz, Dudas was surprised that he was not aware of the event. A few days later, he was invited, by Hubert Bergmann, ...
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet
by Jerry D'Souza
The Velvet Lounge in Chicago, opened by Fred Anderson in the 1980s, is well-known for the adventurous bands it presents. Time cannot encapsulate the number of bands that played there, fueling an ongoing interest in free jazz. Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins was one who found a welcoming stage; he now pays tribute to Anderson, who died in ...
Nicole Mitchell: Awakening
by Jerry D'Souza
Flautist Nicole Mitchell is visionary. Her music clasps a wide panorama of styles and sounds in a constant quest for the new, as she opens up a sonic spectrum that moves from quiet interludes to scintillating rhythmic motifs. Mitchell brings the flute up front on this CD, working with a quartet rather than the ...
The Carlos Abadie Quintet: Immersed in the Quest, Vol. 1
by Jerry D'Souza
It would be a misnomer to call the Carlos Abadie Quintet a new band; after all, the group has been around for a decade. But it is one of those anomalies of fate that it is not better known. It should, and the reasons are manifested on Immersed in the Quest, Vol. 1, which carries a ...
