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John Abercrombie: Class Trip
by John Kelman
Guitarist John Abercrombie's last record, 2002's Cat 'n' Mouse , as good as it was, was as much an announcement, a promise, a consolidation and move in a new direction that was hinted at by 1999's Open Land. Signalling the arrival of a new quartet featuring violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, ...
John Abercrombie: Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings
by Michael P. Gladstone
Through its Rarum series, initiated in 2002, ECM has encouraged its artists to select among their own recordings to best illustrate their ECM years. Guitarist John Abercrombie has wisely chosen to represent his 30 year career with the label by offering ten tracks arranged in chronological fashion. Abercrombie, Keith Jarrett, and Jan Garbarek are probably the ...
Cat 'N' Mouse
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: A Nice Idea; Convolution; String Thing; Soundtrack; Third Stream Samba; On The Loose; Stop and Go; Show of Hands.
John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse
by Celeste Sunderland
Contradiction has its claws wrapped around John Abercrombie's latest recording Cat 'n' Mouse. Somber, weeping melodies offset rolling, jubilant solos. Wild improvisation fades into shifting, dark-ening sonic landscapes. Delicate brushes on drums churn into steady rock beats. The fifth track “Third Stream Samba" doesn't venture anywhere near Brazil. Even the title of the album, naming the ...
Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant
by Phil DiPietro
At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...
John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse
by AAJ Staff
First and foremost, Cat 'n' Mouse is a game among equals. The members of this quartet are each powerful musicians in their own right, and somehow they've made a treaty to serve a common cause. Guitarist John Abercrombie takes the lead on the opening track, “A Nice Idea," with an extended lyrical melody seeping with melancholy. ...
Dave Holland: A Weekend of Bass
by Dave Roberts
There may be no instrument that is more vital yet less heralded in a jazz group than the bass. The bass provides much of the rhythmic and harmonic foundation as well as outlining the form. If the bassist is solid, locking in with the drums and piano, everyone else in the group can relax. And often, ...
Charles Lloyd: Crossing the Waters Wide
by C. Andrew Hovan
From the time of “love-ins" and tie-dyed shirts to today's current jazz renaissance, Charles Lloyd has played a part in the multifaceted history of the music. His series of Atlantic sides in the '60s transfixed a young and impressionable audience by way of an intoxicating fusion of mysticism, rock rhythms and jazz improvisation, while also launching ...
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