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Fernando Holz: Minh' Alma Nua
by Jerry D'Souza
Brazilian music has created a welcome niche in jazz, the bossa and the samba giving the music a uniquely sensuous and vibrant rhythm. The beat goes on with Fernando Holz, and though he is more attuned to pop, he works the genre with a convincing passion. Holz is a singer who delves into ...
Joost Buis: Astronotes
by Jerry D'Souza
Holland has one of the most dynamic jazz scenes going. Several musicians revolve within the ambit of different groups, bringing in points of view that merge and play off each other. At the end of the rainbow there is a bustling and constantly evolving vocabulary. This tentet is an example of this kind of feedback, being ...
Ellery Eskelin: Forms
by Jerry D'Souza
Though Ellery Eskelin introduced Drew Gress to Phil Haynes in 1986, they recorded their first album only two years later. Before then they joined forces with trumpeter Paul Smoker in a quartet called Joint Venture and recorded three albums as such. The understanding between the musicians grew stronger over that span of time and when Eskelin ...
Ge-Suk Yeo & Blaise Siwula: Segue
by Jerry D'Souza
The human voice can be an instrument of beauty, yet how many times has it been abused in the name of art! History documents it and so do several among the current proliferation of singers to whom idolatry in North America adds its own seal of proof. That certainly is not the devilment for singer Ge-Suk ...
Guus Janssen: Hollywood O.K. Pieces
by Jerry D'Souza
If there is one word that could be used to describe Guus Janssen, it would be fluid. This trait occurs in his bands, in the arrangements of his tunes and in his constantly evolving music. Janssen works within a framework that embraces melody. He then fleshes it with arrangements that make optimum use of the instruments, ...
Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra: The Owner Of The River Bank
by Jerry D'Souza
The Italian Instabile Orchestra played two concerts at the Talos Festival in Ruva di Puglia in 2000, celebrating its tenth anniversary. Cecil Taylor wrote the music, if it can be called writing, for he brought in paper with symbols, words and shapes to the rehearsals. This work in progress began to ferment over the next three ...
Joshua Breakstone: A Jamais
by Jerry D'Souza
Joshua Breakstone is back with what he loves doing best: playing guitar with a melodic grace. One could even see it as an immaculate articulation, his lines clean, his notes uncomplicated, doublets that augment the shape, improvisations creating craft of a high order. Breakstone has been in his straight-ahead groove over the space ...
Lost Valentine: 1 2 3
by Jerry D'Souza
Two words are often bandied about when it comes to describing improvised music: free and outside. Much can go on between those descriptives. The music that flows can be interesting or an assault on sensibility and on logic. It all depends on the perception of the musicians. Gregg Keplinger, Wally Shoup and Reuben Radding ...
Spring Heel Jack: The Sweetness of the Water
by Jerry D'Souza
John Coxon and Ashley Wales (together known as Spring Heel Jack) have stirred the stimulus of several musicians, their bed of bass and drums and electronics being the take-off point. They do so once more with their fourth outing in Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, this time with the indelibly persuasive presence of Wadada Leo Smith and ...
Mark Masters Ensemble with Lee Konitz: One Day With Lee
by Jerry D'Souza
To say that Lee Konitz has made some very valuable contributions to jazz would be stating the obvious. Now that I have done so, it is time to get on to his current recording. Konitz stands amidst the Mark Masters Ensemble, a 14-piece band that gives the saxophonist the space to invent or re-invent ...
