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Pete Sinfield: Still (Expanded Edition)
by John Kelman
He may not have stepped onstage during the early heyday of In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969) through Islands (DGM Live, 1971), but lyricist Pete Sinfield was as much a member of seminal art rock group King Crimson as its performing members. A shot heard around the world, Crimson's debut was a ...
douBt: Never Pet a Burning Dog
by John Kelman
Sometimes bringing two musicians together for the first time can yield some real magic. That was the case when British keyboardist Alex Maguire joined up with Michel Delville and members of the Belgian guitarist's flagship group, The Wrong Object, for Brewed in Belgium (MoonJune, 2008). Never Pet a Burning Dog largely pares things down to a ...
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin: The TLG Collection
by John Kelman
With momentum building in recent times for once progster, now popster Dave Stewart and longtime partner, vocalist Barbara Gaskin, it only makes sense to keep it going. With reissues of the groundbreaking keyboardist's work with Canterbury faves Hatfield and the North and National Health, archival live and radio recordings from Hatfield and the earlier, no less ...
Mederic Collignon: Shangri-Tunkashi-La
by John Kelman
Less known than he should be outside his native France, Médéric Collignon is something of a jazz celebrity at home. A winner of multiple awards, the trumpeter/keyboardist/vocalist has participated and collaborated with the esteemed Orchestre National de Jazz, and can be heard on clarinetist Louis Sclavis' idiosyncratic Napoli's Walls (ECM, 2003). With Shangri-Tunkashi-La, Collignon brings a ...
Dan Berglund's Tonbruket: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket
by John Kelman
After 15 years as the bassist for Swedish supergroup e.s.t.--and, at least to the public eye, to the exclusion of all else--the big question about Dan Berglund was, after the group tragically dissolved following the untimely death of pianist Esbjörn Svensson, what next? Well, considering Berglund's roots were always more in rock than jazz--his signature delayed ...
Marc Copland Trio: Cafe Paradiso, Ottawa, Canada
by John Kelman
Marc Copland Trio Café Paradiso Ottawa, Canada February 27, 2010 Running a jazz club in a town where the scene is, in relative terms, marginal at best is a constantly risky proposition, but over the past several years Alex Demianenko's Café Paradiso has become an institution in Ottawa, where ...
Paul Motian / Chris Potter / Jason Moran: Lost In A Dream
by John Kelman
Though he's led larger ensembles, drummer Paul Motian seems to be most comfortable--or, at the very least, most interested--in working within the particular confines and freedoms of the trio. Whether it's his quarter century old group with guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano, or the early saxophone/bass/drums trio of Dance (ECM, 1978) and Le Voyage ...
Pete Lockett's Network of Sparks featuring Bill Bruford: One
by John Kelman
Released in 1999 on the obscure Melt 2000 label, Bill Bruford's reissue of fellow percussionist Pete Lockett's One continues the now retired drum legend's campaign to release and/or reissue works focusing on the clearly infinite rhythmic, melodic and textural potentials of all-percussion ensembles. One follows the World Drummers Ensemble's world-centric A Coat of Many Colors (Summerfold, ...
Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit
by John Kelman
After a five-year break from recording, Jaga Jazzist is back. The Norwegian group's Molde Jazz 2009 performance—its first in four years, barring a single 2007 date in Singapore—provided clear evidence that the touchstones defining this sibling-run group remain intact (multi-instrumentalist Lars Horntveth writes all the music; percussionist Martin Horntveth is the onstage spokesperson for the band; ...
Froy Aagre: Cycle of Silence
by John Kelman
For her first album on the internationally distributed ACT label, saxophonist Frøy Aagre continues along the path begun with her earlier releases on the Norwegian AIM label--Katalyze (2004) and Countryside (2006)--mining her own combination of melancholic Nordicism, Baroque classicism and American jazz tradition. As on Countryside, she expands her core piano/bass/drums quartet on six tracks, enhancing ...
