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Gary Husband: The Complete Diary of a Plastic Box
by John Kelman
One of the biggest surprises for those who thought of Gary Husband as a drummer was his keyboard work on guitarist John McLaughlin's recent 4th Dimension tours (Fall, 2007/Spring, 2008) Still, those in the know are familiar with Husband's double life on albums including The Things I See (Angel Air, 2004), Aspire (Jazzizit, 2004) and A ...
Guillermo Klein / Los Guachos: Filtros
by John Kelman
When an artist states his CD is, "...the best group effort ever achieved by Guachos," there's the temptation to toss the comment aside as mere hyperbole designed to generate some hype over a new release. But pianist/vocalist Guillermo Klein isn't exaggerating when he speaks of Filtros, his first Los Guachos studio album since III (Sunnyside, 2002). ...
The Core: Office Essentials
by John Kelman
Those believing the Norwegian scene is all about Nordic Cool and electro-centric improv might change their minds after hearing The Core's Office Essentials. Owing as much to John Coltrane's classic mid-1960s quartet as it does the closer-to-home Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet of the 1970s, The Core is as far from cool as you can get; delivering ...
Havard Wiik Trio: The Arcades Project
by John Kelman
Freedom comes in many forms, and while still a relative youngster, Oslo-based pianist Håvard Wiik's already built a career across the broadest possible spectrum of improvisational possibilities, whether it's with Atomic, the Swedish/Norwegian collective where Wiik's name first came to attention on albums including the expansive three-CD The Bikini Tapes (Jazzland, 2005), his ongoing “covers" duo ...
Maria Kannegaard: Maryland
by John Kelman
While a new generation of Scandinavian musicians explores the integration of electronics and live sampling with conventional instrumentation, it's easy to forget that many of these intrepid young artists have an equally strong foundation in the jazz tradition. Danish-born but now Norwegian-resident pianist Maria Kannegaard, who graduated from Trondheim University in Jazz Performance, has been exploring ...
The Anthology
by John Kelman
One of the seminal fusion bands of the 1970s, keyboardist Chick Corea's Return to Forever, alongside like-minded but completely different groups including Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report, not only went to vinyl sales territory few jazz artists had gone before, but to arena tours more normally associated with big ticket rock groups. ...
Peter Brown Trio: Franklin Street
by John Kelman
In a time where innovation is too often measured by complexity and abstrusity, there are still those who value the resonance of a good melody and the selfless approach of an ensemble for whom song is the priority. That's not to say that Ottawa, Canada's Peter Brown isn't a fine enough pianist/vocalist, or that his trio ...
Live at Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
With the success of trumpeter Dave Douglas' twelve virtual CD collection of music from a six-night run at New York's Jazz Standard in December, 2006 with his longstanding Quintet--the download-only versions, representing twelve hours of music, ultimately distilled into the hard two-CD set, Live at the Jazz Standard (Greenleaf, 2007), that brought together all the Quintet's ...
Scorch Trio: Brolt
by John Kelman
First impressions may be lasting, but they're sometimes not as all-encompassing as they should be. Scorch Trio--the Norwegian/Finnish power trio featuring guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--may appear to be a pedal-to-the-metal improvising power trio, a sense supported by Luggumt (Rune Grammofon, 2004). Still, over the course of three albums culminating ...
Todd Sickafoose: Tiny Resistors
by John Kelman
An active sideman, bassist Todd Sickafoose is best-known for his work with DIY singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco. But he's also been very busy on the outer edges of jazz, working with artists including John Zorn on Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003), Tin Hat Trio on The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope, 2002), and Scott Amendola Band on the ...
