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Eclectica: Streaming Video Soul
by John Kelman
After years building an audience one town at a time, banjoist Béla Fleck and the Flecktones no longer needs to record and tour incessantly, allowing its members to pursue other avenues. With Fleck off pursuing his Throw Down Your Heart, Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions (Rounder, 2009), bassist Victor Wooten collaborating with ...
Yellowjackets: New Morning - The Paris Concert
by John Kelman
YellowjacketsNew Morning - The Paris Concert Heads Up International2009A group that has, on occasion, ventured along the fine line between contemporary jazz and that of the smoother variety, Yellowjackets has always been a performing band. Now approaching its 30th anniversary as a collective, it's the group's eighth year ...
Miles Davis: That's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987
by John Kelman
Miles DavisThat's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987 Eagle Eye Media2009The exhaustive (and expensive) 20CD box set, The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux 1973-1991 (Columbia/Legacy, 2002), finally set the record straight about the late trumpeter's often misunderstood and overly criticized final decade. Admittedly, many of his studio releases ...
In The Country: Whiteout
by John Kelman
Terms like magnum opus can be dangerous, setting unrealistic expectations for the present and a precedent against which the future will always be measured. Whether or not this release represents a magnum opus is far too early to tell, but In The Country's Whiteout is certainly this Norwegian piano trio's most ambitious album to date, standing ...
Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
by John Kelman
Often a cinematic writer, guitarist Bill Frisell has composed film scores in the past, including his back-to-back release of Music For The Films Of Buster Keaton: The High Sign/One Week and Go West (both Elektra/Nonesuch, 1995) and, more recently, music for the 2007 Canadian film All Hat (Emarcy/Universal, 2008). Instead of writing for images in motion, ...
National Health: National Health / Of Queues and Cures
by John Kelman
Keyboardist Dave Stewart first emerged with Uriel and Egg--two early Canterbury groups that initially expanded on the psychedelia of earlier progenitor Soft Machine but ultimately created their own space where rock, classical and even hints of jazz music met. But Stewart truly hit his stride with Hatfield and the North, whose two Virgin albums--the impressive Hatfield ...
John Surman: Brewster's Rooster
by John Kelman
After a string of more jazz-centric ECM releases--1992's relatively free Adventure Playground, the large ensemble of 1993's The Brass Project, and the only document of his ongoing quartet with pianist John Taylor, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall, 1994's Stranger Than Fiction--saxophonist John Surman's subsequent output for the label has consisted of unorthodox but no ...
Molde Jazz: Day 6, July 18, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Break of Day in Molde / Crimetime Orchestra / Jaga Jazzist / Arve Henriksen Closing ConcertMolde Jazz Molde, Norway July 18, 2009 It's almost impossible to believe, that after the late nights ...
Molde Jazz: Day 5, July 17, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Leonard CohenMolde Jazz Molde, Norway July 17, 2009 One of the best parts of attending a Norwegian festival is the incredible hospitality and generosity afforded to its guests. From Tuesday ...
Molde Jazz: Day 4, July 16, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Supersilent / HuntsvilleMolde JazzMolde, NorwayJuly 16, 2009There are those who think that jazz is “moldy fig" music--music for gray hairs and no hairs. There's also some concern that the music will ...
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