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Daunik Lazro: Some Other Zongs
by Mark Corroto
To designate saxophonist Daunik Lazro the French Joe McPhee--or, perhaps, the French equivalent to Evan Parker--is to illustrate not only the proficiency he has with his instrument, but his formidable improvisational skills. For his second solo release, Some Other Zongs, he sticks solely to the finicky and often blunt baritone saxophone--an instrument which, in the hands ...
Matthew Shipp Quartet with Paul Dunmall: London, September 8, 2011
by John Sharpe
Matthew Shipp Quartet with Paul DunmallThe VortexLondonSeptember 8, 2011 For a growing number of American improvisers, London is becoming a home away from home. Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is on record as saying how much he enjoys communing with the capital's finest, and reedmen Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee have ...
Vision Festival: Day 4, June 8, 2011
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Days 2-3 | Day 4 | Days 5-6 | Day 7 Peter Brötzmann Quartet / Jason Adasiewicz/Peter Brötzmann Pulverize The Sound / Peter Brötzmann QuintetVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 8, 2011 Each year the Vision Festival honors one of its own--someone ...
Arrington De Dionyso, Mary Halvorson, Liturgy, Sightings, Peter Brotzmann & Pulverize The Sound
by Martin Longley
Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa Cake Shop May 25, 2011 When I first witnessed the singer, reedsman, guitarist and performance artist Arrington De Dionyso at The Stone, he was working as a solo act, exploring extended timbres, textured multiphonics, confrontational starkness and isolated honking eruptions. In more recent ...
Peter Brotzmann: Vision Festival 16, June 8, 2011
by Warren Allen
Peter Brötzmann QuartetAbrons Art Center Main StageNew York, NYJune 8, 2011 On a hot June night in downtown NYC, the Vision Festival welcomed German tenor saxophonist Peter Brötzmann to the main stage of the Abrons Art Center. Famously nicknamed “Machine Gun" early on in his career by Don Cherry, for ...
Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III - Synchronicity (Harmonic Convergence, 2011) ****a1/2
By Paul Acquaro Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III's “Synchronicity" is a tough, dark and moving affair. His experience working the timbers and tones of the avant-garde with his saxophone and clarinet is on great display. The recording was made of a concert date at The Hideout in Chicago in 2007, the sound is excellent and the ...
Peter Brotzmann Rises and Shines on Wednesday at Vision Festival 16.
TRIBUTE TO A LIVING LEGEND Peter Brotzmann:Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement Each year, the Vision Festival honors the achievements of one living artist who has greatly influenced the world around them and paved the way for other innovators to move forward. On Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 Arts For Art and The Vision Festival will celebrate a ...
Joe McPhee - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Blue Chicago Blues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da quando, negli anni Settanta, la Hat Hut gli dedicò un'imponente serie di LP (portandolo, ultratrentenne, alla ribalta internazionale), fino alla riapparizione in questi ultimi anni su varie etichette, Joe McPhee è stato un personaggio per lo più appartato con una voce personale che si è espresso soprattutto come strumentista, convinto e originale. Il suo sax, ...
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet +1: London, UK, April 18-20, 2011
by John Sharpe
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet +1Café OtoLondon, UKApril 18-20, 2011 Since its inception in 1997, Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet has become one of the foremost large groupings in free jazz, not least because of its unrivalled roster of talent and its durability as a unit. When asked how he had kept such ...
Lineage and Vision Festival 16: June 5-11
So much of our experience is increasingly place-less as franchise smiles crafted by human resources consultants greet us daily no matter what the biome or weight of memory. The fast food smile and store floor uniform must ever be the same. Crowd counts displace quality practices with childlike aspirations toward some eternal Superbowl as the only ...
