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Fuhler / Bennink / de Joode: Tinderbox
by Jerry D'Souza
Han Bennink's painting on the cover of this disc proclaims a tinderbox as “a potential explosive place or situation.” Considering its members' credentials, this trio has the potential to be highly explosive. The three Dutchmen keep that tendency in check, which does not mean that the music they make is not interesting. It is, but in ...
Anthony Braxton/ Taylor Ho Bynum: Duets (Wesleyan) 2002
by Jerry D'Souza
Anthony Braxton’s duo work has so far been a mixed success. Not all of these recordings have worked, given the attitude and disposition of the players. While improvisation has been the core of these meetings, the specific approach chosen has dictated the outcome. Taylor Ho Bynum is clearly a soul mate, and the one unwritten tune, ...
Gravitones plus Sounding Brass: Gravitones plus Sounding Brass
by Jerry D'Souza
One's approach to music is divined by sensibility. The two bands on this disc show different facets in this respect; both of which have their validity, even if not all of the music comes off as all that interesting. It starts well enough. When Forti sings about a cat, he begins to cluck laying the ground ...
Sound-Lee!: Plays the Music of Lee Konitz
by Jerry D'Souza
The recent past has witnessed a spate of tribute albums, many with little heart and no soul. Now comes another, all the way from Holland. This one stands tall, propped by a band that does not wallow in flattery but brings in enough fresh ideas to make listening a rewarding experience. Forgive them for calling themselves ...
Sean Bergin: Mob Mobiel
by Jerry D'Souza
Ever since it opened in 1974, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam has been a venue for creative improvised music. It has been the meeting ground for Dutch musicians, with Wednesday night concerts the hallmark of an event filled year. This album was recorded over four Wednesday nights with twenty musicians who formed four different big bands without ...
Windmill Saxophone Quartet: A Touch of Evil
by Jerry D'Souza
Music finds its playground in the imagination. The saxophone quartet has worked well for legions of the persuasion, and it sure does work for these four players. The word saxophone confines them, for they use more than that particular vestige--but then what’s in a name? Not only do they go about their calling with a sense ...
Orchestra Jazz Atipica Bonamici "Group-One": Disordini Al Confine
by Jerry D'Souza
The quality of jazz from Italy is not strained. The land of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, as well as Pino Minafra, Carlos Actis Dato, Gianluigi Trovesi, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Enrico Rava--to name the few and the obvious--is home to a range of music that is irreverent, joyous, free, folky and several other posits that reward careful ...
Various: Viva Cubop 3
by Jerry D'Souza
A rich lore of Latin jazz remains to be mined, and this collection offers a great lead-in. Cuban music takes off on different tangents, giving it a wide body encompassing a richness of sound, a munificence of rhythm and an abundance of emotion. The collection here evokes these images. It gets off to ...
Kyle Bruckmann: Grand Mal
by Jerry D'Souza
Sound shapes. The shapes that spring from the imagination. What is formless swirls and settles into shape. Or maybe it bloats into excess and then collapses in meaningless heap. The four players on this workout get their collective creativity working in tandem, coming up with some interesting twists and surprises until the final encounter. ...
Ravi Coltrane: Mad 6
by Jerry D'Souza
Ravi Coltrane returns as a leader on an album that shows not only a great deal of maturity but also a focus on his vision of jazz. The saxophonist fronts the six musicians who are, over the scheme of things, actually split into two quartets. For the music that comes out of them and their interpretation ...
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