Results for "Joe Hertenstein"

More 2019 Favourites

by Maurice Hogue
January 29, 2020

There's a continued look at 2019 favourites in this edition (the entire first segment, then random thereafter), but some new releases have filtered in as well: drummer Jeff Davis and a great band debut The Fastness, while clarinetist Aaron Novik continues a string of new albums, and one of the premier avant-garde trios--George Graewe, Ernst Reijseger ...

Live at the Bushwick Series

Label: Gaucimusic
Released: 2019
Track listing: Improvisation 1÷6.

Piotr Baron, Benjamin Deschamps & More

by Maurice Hogue
January 2, 2019

Pianist Jacob Sacks summoned some of the best musicians he could find to create Fishes, his latest release for Clean Feed. Saxophonists Ellery Eskelin and Tony Malaby, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Dan Weiss tackle Sack's quirky compositions and ideas and the result is a great recording. Also in this episode, music from a live performance ...

Interfaces: Jazz Meets Electronics

By Jeff Morris

Label: Ravello Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Upzy; A Solo is the nth Melody; In Which; Rondo; Into; Three at One; Unwind; Clocksays; Inderneath; Dot (dot dot)

Ivo Perelman: Strings 1

by Mark Corroto
December 10, 2018

Try to keep up sports fans, Ivo Perelman has switched directions once again. It's not that he has quit music to become a soccer star. The tenor saxophonist has more recently taken a dive into string quartets, recording a dozen or so sessions with bowing, plucking, and pizzicato-minded musicians. Strings 1 is the introduction. If this ...

Ivo Perelman Makes It Rain

by Mark Corroto
November 12, 2017

If music was sports, then Ivo Perelman would be baseball and most other musicians football. Where football's regular season is 16 games, baseball plays 162. Likewise, most musicians release one album every year or two, but Perelman has averaged seven titles per year for the last seven years. His 2017 Leo Records output is thirteen (fourteen, ...

Harvey Valdes: PointCounterPoint

by Glenn Astarita
September 7, 2016

It makes sense that experimental guitar hero and studio whiz David Torn would be involved to whatever extent on guitarist Harvey Valdes (Butch Morris, Sean Sonderegger's Magically Inclined) debut solo album. Torn mastered this studio session and the parallel here is that both guitarists tend to rip boundaries to shreds. Here, Valdes and violinist Sana Nagano ...

Three Shots from Siwula: Blaise Siwula & NoFrillsMusic

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 18, 2015

The emergence of free jazz in the 1950s and 1960s pioneered a new way of thinking about music that not only affected the way music sounded, but also the way it was shared and distributed. In many ways, free jazz was a movement away from mainstream and mass-distribution and the rediscovery of music as art, but ...

The Core Trio with Matthew Shipp: The Core Trio With Matthew Shipp

by Dan Bilawsky
July 28, 2014

One trio. One guest. A single, forty-two minute, freely improvised piece. That's what you basically have here, but such a bare description doesn't do it justice. The Core Trio--a group that has yet to actually record as a stand-alone trio--has an interesting history that seems to always revolve around personnel twists. The group ...

Your Shipp Has Come In

by Mark Corroto
July 23, 2014

These two guest appearances demonstrate that pianist Matthew Shipp has become an elder statesman in the jazz world. How that happened can be boiled down to two simple elements. One: he has created a unique sound and language for improvised music and two: Shipp has become a doyen of cutting edge music making and opinion.