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Jim Black

Jim Black (born 1967 in Seattle, Washington) is a jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas, among others. He attended Berklee College of Music. His own group, AlasNoAxis, includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, and Skúli Sverrisson on electric bass. The music is in some ways closer to post-rock than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensemble texture rather than featured solos. Since 2000, the group has released several records on Winter & Winter. The group Pachora, also including Black, Speed, and Sverrisson, and with Brad Shepik on tambura and electric saz, plays music that is similarly rhythmically diverse, but inspired by Balkan rhythms.

Album

Ain't No Saint

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Set-Up (for Baikida Carroll); Snaggs; Asgingforit; Crashbash; Riversgardens; Bellsimmer; Surely; Schrimps BBQ; No Pull; Heyscram; The Once; Bowerfield.

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Article: Liner Notes

Lage Lund: Idlewild

Read "Lage Lund: Idlewild" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


An open and revealing format for any artist, the jazz trio offers rewards on many levels. Left in veracious hands, there is a spacious pocket that can be filled by any number of rhythmic and harmonic ideas, not to mention a freedom in melodic phrases which don't have to be constrained by strict chordal structures. On ...

Article: Live Review

Musiche Corsare a Bari

Read "Musiche Corsare a Bari" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Musiche Corsare 2023 Teatro Forma Bari 20-23.4.2023 Sotto la direzione artistica di Roberto Ottaviano, la cui esauriente intervista è stata pubblicata su queste pagine alla fine di marzo, si è articolata in modo esemplare la seconda edizione di Musiche Corsare. Il festival, che quest'anno era dedicato a George Russell, ha palesato ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Steve Swell, Asher Gamedze, Dan Rosenboom & Fergus Quill

Read "Steve Swell, Asher Gamedze, Dan Rosenboom & Fergus Quill" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


An energetic episode this time around on One Man's Jazz! There's plenty of punch from South African drummer and composer Asher Gamedze, trombonist Steve Swell's Fire Into Music (featuring the late Jemeel Moondoc), L.A. trumpeter Dan Rosenboom with a killer band, New Zealand mates drummer Edward Ware and saxophonist Jeff Henderson reunion, the quirky Imaginary Big ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim & the Schrimps: Ain't No Saint

Read "Ain't No Saint" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Although the group's name (and album title) sound like something one might associate with a second-rate bar band, there is nothing oafish or pedestrian about drummer Jim Black's latest outfit, a hard-hitting ensemble which channels the distinctive energies of Black and his well-chosen compatriots. With saxophonists Asger Nissen (alto) and Julius Gawlik (tenor) and bassist Felix ...

Article: Interview

Roberto Ottaviano: sul palco e dietro le quinte

Read "Roberto Ottaviano: sul palco e dietro le quinte" reviewed by Libero Farnè


È estremamente opportuno tornare periodicamente ad analizzare le esperienze più recenti di musicisti di grande personalità del panorama jazzistico italiano. Uno di questi è dagli anni Ottanta Roberto Ottaviano, che esordì discograficamente nel 1983 con Aspects, un lavoro rivelatore, in solo e in sestetto, di una potenza espressiva e di una creatività sconvolgenti. Dopo ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jim Black & The Schrimps, Juanma Trujillo & Pulverize The Sound

Read "Jim Black & The Schrimps, Juanma Trujillo & Pulverize The Sound" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


With Jim Black living in Berlin now, you would expect he'd get hooked into the German scene. His new quartet called The Schrimps features three very exciting young German players (Asger Nissen and Julius Gawlik saxophones and Felix Henkelhausen acoustic bass ). Black's new release Ain't No Saint presents the drummer at his quirky and unpredictable ...

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Article: Interview

Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti Quartet Interview Series: Alana Macpherson

Read "Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti Quartet Interview Series: Alana Macpherson" reviewed by Jane Kozhevnikova


This interview is the first in a series to feature the Carlton-Macpherson-Pass-Valenti quartet from Australia: Jessica Carlton (trumpet), Alana Macpherson (saxophone), Kate Pass (double bass) and Talya Valenti (drums). They formed a quartet in 2021 with Carlton's move to Perth from Melbourne and Macpherson's temporary return from Austria. The quartet's debut album, Undeniable (Self Produced, 2022), ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Roscoe Mitchell Trio & Orchestra, Christian McBride New Jawn, and more

Read "Roscoe Mitchell Trio & Orchestra, Christian McBride New Jawn, and more" reviewed by David Brown


This week, one of the great innovators in creative music, saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell will be featured. I've been enjoying Mitchell's reworking of trio improvisations as transcribed for orchestra. We'll also check out Prime the new release from bassist Christen McBride's New Jawn. Plus, new works and recent finds. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from ...


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