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Huntsville + Yuka Honda, Nels Cline, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche.: Bow Shoulder
by John Eyles
Bow Shoulder is the first Huntsville release since Pond back in March 2016. Surprisingly, it was recorded in Chicago in June 2010 and not mixed until January 2019 and April 2020. Just as surprising—maybe less so, given the album's personnel credits—is that the Chicago recording took place at the Loft, the studio and rehearsal space of ...
Three Matchless Recordings
by John Eyles
Eddie Prévost has accumulated a range of achievements, any one of which would have guaranteed his place in the pantheon of improvised music. One of the founding members of AMM back in 1965, drummer Prévost is the only ever-present member of the iconic group. In November 1999, he first convened the hugely influential London ...
Tara Minton: Please Do Not Ignore the Mermaid
by John Eyles
Born in Melbourne, Australia, but resident in London since 2011, Tara Minton is a harpist, vocalist and song writer who straddles the boundary between jazz and contemporary composition. She has an interestingly eclectic musical history; she previously played with Melbourne Opera for some years and also toured with Björk. Please Do Not Ignore the Mermaid is ...
Mary Halvorson At 40
by John Eyles
Guitarist Mary Halvorson enrolled to study Biology at Wesleyan University, but she soon dropped the subject after sitting in on one of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's music classes there, instead studying jazz. By November 2004, shortly after her twenty-fourth birthday, Halvorson played guitar at the Royal Festival Hall, London, as a member of Braxton's quintet, the first ...
Elsewhere Piano Series No. 2
by John Eyles
When Elsewhere released its three-album Piano Series No.1 in the summer of 2019, the All About Jazz review of it concluded as follows,"This Piano Series consists of three distinctively different recordings, any one of which would have attracted attention and plaudits in its own right. It is a measure of the quality of the series that ...
Two "Unusual" releases on Another Timbre
by John Eyles
In Another Timbre's brief notes about the label's autumn 2020 releases, two of the five album descriptions included the word “unusual," the first time that this has occurred. Monument of Diamonds is described as “using an unusual 17-tone scale developed by Erv Wilson." That is followed by the blurb for Good Day Good Day Bad Day ...
Keune Lash Noble: And Now
by John Eyles
The trio of German saxophonist Stefan Keune with British bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Steve Noble first came together in September 2013 when they appeared at guitarist John Russell's monthly Mopomoso afternoon at The Vortex, Keune having been a regular visitor there through his duo with Russell which dates back to the 90's. The trio worked ...
Two contrasting Covid-19 recordings from Switzerland
by John Eyles
The chaos brought about by the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown hit the livelihoods of most musicians, causing real hardship, difficulties and anxiety for many. The Another Timbre label took action to assist them in several practical ways; it distributed over £3,000 from sales during the pandemic to many musicians whose work it released; in conjunction with other ...
Cristián Alvear on INSUB
by John Eyles
Since the Chilean guitarist Cristián Alvear first appeared in Europe and had his debut album, 24 Petits Préludes Pour La Guitare, released by Edition Wanderweiser, in 2013, he has been highly productive and visible, releasing about forty albums in some seven years. Impressive as that figure may seem, even more so are the labels he has ...
The Art of the Duo?
by John Eyles
As an album title, The Art of the Duo has been used at least three times: a 1983 studio recording by US saxophonist Lee Konitz and German trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, released in 1988 on Enja; a 1988 studio recording by pianist Mal Waldron and saxophonist Jim Pepper, released in 1989 on Tutu; a 1991 live recording ...
