Results for "Joe Fiedler"

Joe Fiedler: Sacred Chrome Orb

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 7, 2012

Non si può certo dire che manchi coraggio al trombonista Joe Fiedler (lui sostiene che la pronuncia corretta è 'Faidler,' probabilmente a seguito di una discendenza tedesca). Affrontare la sfida di questo album alla testa di un ottimo trio composto, oltre che dal suo trombone, da basso e batteria, lo porta immediatamente al centro del ring. ...

Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy

by Hrayr Attarian
August 11, 2011

The year 2011 is proving to be a fruitful one for Japanese composer and improviser Satoko Fujii. In addition to a world tour, she has released three albums (all on June 21) on her own Libra record label, each in a different setting and in the company of different musicians. Her only constant companion, through all ...

The Jazz Session #296: Joe Fiedler

July 30, 2011

Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: ETO

by Troy Collins
July 26, 2011

In addition to an ever-changing array of small combos, tireless Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii continues to lead four international big bands, each based in a different city (Kobe, Nagoya, New York and Tokyo). Of the four, her New York based Orchestra is both her oldest and most prolific, having maintained virtually the same line-up since 1997. ...

Ed Palermo: Eddy Loves Frank

by Ken Dryden
December 8, 2009

Since 1994, Ed Palermo has arranged and performed over 200 works by the late Frank Zappa, a brilliant musician whose often controversial lyrics distracted people from his gifts as a composer. Putting together a tightly rehearsed band consisting of New York City-based musicians, Palermo has played his charts in nightclubs around the city for over 15 ...

Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank

by Nic Jones
December 3, 2009

With the dubious benefit of hindsight, it could be argued that Frank Zappa's music could--and on the basis of this release can still be--defined by what it's not. Zappa was both astute and knowing enough to realize that both progressive and jazz rock could easily become stylistic straitjackets. His music was reflective of this knowledge as ...

Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank

by Ian Patterson
October 20, 2009

The Ed Palermo Big BandEddy Loves FrankCuneiform Records2009 Saxophonist and bandleader Ed Palermo loves Frank Zappa, and not just a little bit. It's not only the transcribing of 200 Zappa tunes, the scores of concerts where Palermo has led his big band through the late Zappa's music, nor ...

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2009

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...

Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

by Martin Longley
April 19, 2009

Fast 'n' Bulbous Waxed Oop Cuneiform 2009 Many people would agree with alto saxophonist Phillip Johnston's assertion that Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) was one of the twentieth century's very greatest composers. He was also one of its key innovators, conceptualists, singers and poets. When an artist ...

The Crab

By Joe Fiedler

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. The Crab; 02. Trout Stream; 03. Don’t Impede the Stream; 04. For Albert; 05. Jesse’s Little Freakout; 06. A Frankfurter in Caracas; 07. Split Tone; 08. New Rugs; 09. H.B.