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Jim Black: Dogs of Great Indifference
by Troy Collins
The fourth Winter & Winter studio release by Jim Black's longstanding AlasNoAxis group is, like its predecessors, remarkably consistent in delivery. The progressions the group makes at times are so subtle from one album to the next that the different recordings can seem interchangeable. But AlasNoAxis soldiers on as part of a brave new tradition, blending ...
Left End
By Rick Peckham
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2004
Track listing: Left End; 353-1001; Mr. Medium; Shakey; Free 2; Gibbons; Soporific; You Know What That Means; Hammer Damage; Hawthorn; Real Time; Free 1; Evidence
Habyor
By Jim Black
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Talk About; Z; Rade; Cha; Part Wolf; Hello Kombiant; Let It Down; Be Real; Endgatherers; Stay Go. All
compositions by Jim Black, arranged by AlasNoAxis. Total time: 51:52
Ellery Eskelin: Ten
by Shawn McGrew
This article was originally published under our Call and Response column. It's curious that both Andrea Parkins and Jim Black's names are absent from the front cover of Ten. This marks the tenth year the band has been together and both long-time associates do participate on this project. Despite functioning as the leader, Eskelin's ...
Jim Black/Alasnoaxis: Habyor
by John Kelman
Drummer Jim Black reconvenes his Alasnoaxis band for its third outing on the Winter & Winter label, this time delving even further into song form than on the first two releases. More than a little influenced by alt rock bands, there are still tastes of progressive and art rock in the mix, but the emphasis is ...
Jim Black: Habyor
by AAJ Staff
Listeners familiar with drummer Jim Black's work alongside Ellery Eskelin, Tim Berne, and Dave Douglas were surprised by his solo debut, AlasNoAxis , back in 2000. The outright bulk of the backbeat-driven opus stood in contrast to Black's other jazz-oriented efforts, which were marked (and continue to be marked) by a more liberal dynamic approach. The ...
Splay
By Jim Black
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Aloe Evra 2.iCratic 3.Cheepa vs. Cheep 4.You Were Out 5.War Again error 6.Be 7.Myndir Now 8.Ant Work Song 9.Awkwarder 10.Blissed (Selfchatter Mix)
Jim Black - AlasNoAxis: Splay
by Glenn Astarita
This outing marks the follow up to drummer Jim Black’s well-received debut solo effort, Alas, No Axis. And while Black and associates render comparable regions of sound, they have seemingly cultured their overall approach with this new release. To that end, the musicians convey more of a “group” based vibe – partly due to less experimentation ...
Alasnoaxis
By Jim Black
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Mm/ Optical/ Maybe/ Ambusher/ Garden Frequency/ Poet Staggered/ backfloatpedal/ Icon/ Luxuriate/ Boombye/ Auk and Dromedary/ trace/ Nion/ Melize/ angels and aritiface.
Jim Black: Alasnoaxis
by Derek Taylor
Jim Black is best known as one of the three points of the Ellery Eskelin 3, a go-for-broke free jazz triangle that routinely incorporates any and all ideas improvisational ideas into an unpredictable and highly versatile amalgam. Three consistently excellent releases on Hatology have more than measured the group’s mettle, but as anyone who has appreciated ...
