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Mars Williams / Tollef Østvang: Painted Pillars
by Mark Corroto
If you only know saxophonist Mars Williams from his gigs with the post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs or the hip-hop/funk band Liquid Soul, you're missing out on a talented and dedicated free-jazz improviser. He scatters himself in many directions, from collaborations with Chicago's Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Jim Baker and Michael Zerang, to work in Europe ...
Vision Festival 2018
by John Sharpe
23rd Annual Vision Festival Roulette New York, NY May 23-28, 2018 Introduction The Vision Festival somewhat surprisingly but reassuringly stands proud as the longest-lived annually produced jazz festival in New York. While the central plank remains what the Festival terms avant jazz, it's interspersed with poetry, dance, art, and ...
Clean Feed 2018
by Mark Corroto
Since it's inception in 2002, Lisbon, Portugal's Clean Feed Records has released nearly 500 recordings. Last year the total was 64. Keeping up with their output might be the best way to follow innovative jazz and improvised music in the 21st century. Besides releasing music by masters such as Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman, Elliott ...
Daniel Carter / William Parker / Matthew Shipp: Seraphic Light [Live At Tufts University]
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by Mark Corroto
Do you remember the film The Thomas Crowne Affair? The original--not the 1999 remake--starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and contained the 1968 Academy Award-winning song “Windmills of Your Mind" by Dusty Springfield. I bring that up because this live performance by Daniel Carter, William Parker, and Matthew Shipp brings to mind the lyrics: “Like a ...
Joe McPhee: From Outer Space
by Thad Aerts
Joe McPhee, the 78-year-old multi-instrumentalist dedicated to the saxophone, has a new trio. McPhee on said saxophone with James Keepnews on guitar and laptop, and David Berger on drums make up Plan B. From Outer Space is the trio's inaugural offering. Free in its wandering's, the record is still incredibly cohesive and multi-themed. Recorded ...
Culture Clubs: Part IV: When Jazz Met Europe
by Karl Ackermann
The Geography of Jazz--When Jazz Met Europe In 2004 Maureen Anderson, a researcher at Illinois State University contributed a dissertation to the journal, African American Review, titled The White Reception of Jazz in America. Ostensibly, her article deals with stories published in high profile periodicals and journals from 1917 and into the 1930s, written by white ...
William Parker: Embracing The Unknown
by Luke Seabright
His is one of the most distinctive and respected voices on double bass today. William Parker, the tireless composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator and poet, is still today omnipresent on the contemporary free jazz scene. What's more, he has been consistently for the last four decades. The William Parker Sessionography: A Work in Progress by Rick Lopez clocks ...
3 Nights In Oslo
Label: Catalytic Sound
Released: 2017
Track listing: Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Sonore: Ken Vandermark / Mats Gustafsson / Peter Brötzmann]; Untitled [Michael Zerang / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Johannes Bauer / Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Survival Unit III: Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Fred Longberg-Holm]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1]; Untitled [Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1].
Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe McPhee
All About Jazz is celebrating Joe McPhee's birthday today! Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first ...
Edgefest 2017: Give the Drummers Some, Part 1-2
by Troy Dostert
Part 1 | Part 2 Edgefest Ann Arbor, MI October 18-19, 2017 When mid-October rolls around, many fans of avant-garde jazz and creative music prepare to converge on Ann Arbor, Michigan for their annual pilgrimage to the Kerrytown Concert House, home of the Edgefest festival. Now in its ...
