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The Eclectic Troubadours: Eclectic
by John Eyles
"The Eclectic Troubadours are a band of serious musicians on a quest to challenge themselves musically but to also play songs people like. That quote rather succinctly sums up this album. The four band members are all based in New York City, where they work as freelance musicians. Some lead their own bands; all are very ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2005
by John Eyles
An eagerly anticipated annual release, the Freedom of the City CD is an essential complement to the live festival, providing the opportunity to check recalled perceptions against objective evidence and to fill in unavoidable gaps, but mostly--whether or not one was there--to catch some great music. Largely for financial reasons, the 2005 London festival was a ...
John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Paul Lovens / Radu Malfattii / John Russell: News From The Shed
by John Eyles
This welcome CD reissue of the original News From The Shed (released on vinyl on John Butcher's Acta label in 1989) features four previously unissued tracks. Long regarded as one of the finest examples of group free improvisation, the album's reputation has grown steadily. The quintet grew out of the existing trio of Butcher, Durrant and ...
Kip Hanrahan: Pinero
by John Eyles
This is the soundtrack album to Leon Ichaso's biopic of Puerto Rican street poet Miguel Pinero, maybe best known for his play about prison life, “Short Eyes. The film itself was described this way in a New York Times review: “The movie, a flashy montage, which jumps around in time and alternates between color and black ...
Agusti Fernandez & Mats Gustafsson: Critical Mass
by John Eyles
For a duo, pianist Agusti Fernández and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson are capable of producing a huge dynamic range and variety of sounds. At one extreme Gustafsson can generate the same kind of intensely hard-edged tone and energy as Peter Brötzmann (of whose Tentet he is an occasional member) or Ken Vandermark (another Tentet member). When, as ...
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Double Blues Crossing
by John Eyles
If Gerry Hemingway's other 2005 release, The Whimbler--with his current quartet--presented a surprisingly straight-ahead facet of his music, this quintet album is far more intriguing and, well, strange. Opening to the (sampled) sounds of old-time fiddle-driven folk music, the seven-part title suite sounds like the soundtrack to some yet-to-be-made movie. In his sleeve notes, Hemingway even ...
Johannes Haage's Party of Five: Party of Five
by John Eyles
Led by guitarist Johannes Haage, Party of Five is “loosely based in Berlin. As well as leading the quintet, Haage composed all four pieces here. If they have a fault, it is that they are rather overwritten; there are sections where the players are given space to explore the written themes, and it would have been ...
Badland: The Society of the Spectacle
by John Eyles
Badland is an occasional trio which has now been recording for over a decade. The Society of the Spectacle, recorded in 2003, is the group's third album, the previous two having been released on Simon H. Fell's own Bruce's Fingers label. Simon Rose provides the sleeve notes here, a series of pithy one-liners that sketch out ...
Dieter Scherf Trio: Inside-Outside Reflections
by John Eyles
Another historical release in Atavistic's Unheard Music Series, drawn from a seemingly bottomless well of lost or forgotten gems, Inside-Outside Reflections dates from 1974. As with similar releases, this is a welcome addition to the catalogue for both musical and historical reasons. It also saves collectors from taking out a small mortgage to acquire a copy; ...
Joe Giardullo: No Work Today: Nine for Steve Lacy
by John Eyles
To record an album dedicated to another musician--especially one as recently dead and as revered as Steve Lacy--is a risky business. The risk is greater if it is also an album of unaccompanied playing. If you're too reverential, you may be accused of cashing in and/or plagiarism; if you're too individualistic, you may be accused of ...
