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Saxophone Summit: Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane: Seraphic Light
by John Kelman
Formed in the mid-1990s by three of jazz's leading post-Coltrane exponents--not just to pay homage to the saxophone legend's exploratory latter period work, but to advance his collaborative and collective soloing aesthetic into a fully contemporary context nearly thirty years after his death--Saxophone Summit was dealt a tremendous blow, as was the entire jazz world, when ...
Charlie Haden: The Private Collection
by John Kelman
Originally released as limited edition single discs sets, bass icon Charlie Haden and specialty audiophile label Naim Audio finally give The Private Collection broader release. Two CDs documenting two concerts with his then relatively nascent Quartet West from 1987 and 1988, it's also a dovetail to The Best of Quartet West (Verve, 2007), prefacing Haden's 2008 ...
Planeta Imaginario: Biomasa
by John Kelman
Further evidence of the multifarious stylistic cross-pollination allowing artists to find a distinct voice largely defined by how it emphasizes each of its many references, Planeta Imaginario's Biomasa is a fusion feast in the broadest possible terms. Combining elements of Spanish fusion a la Chick Corea with African grooves, Canterbury whimsy (Gilgamesh, In Cahoots), knotty Zappa-esque ...
Pat Metheny: Tokyo Day Trip
by John Kelman
Subtitled Live EP, Tokyo Day Trip is a specially priced gift for those who've missed the opportunity to see guitarist Pat Metheny and his trio of the past couple years, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez. At half the length of what a CD can hold, it's 41 minutes of pure gold from the best ...
John McLaughlin: Floating Point
by John Kelman
John McLaughlin Floating Point Abstract Logix 2008 While the term fusion has long been associated with the specific fusing of jazz and rock, ever-shrinking distances in the global community has led to viewing the term as much more all-encompassing. Few have been as successful as ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 1 - May 15, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Jean Derome / John Zorn Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 15, 2008Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, held in May each year in the rather unlikely location of Victoriaville, Canada, has built a ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 3 - May 17, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Houle, Smulovitz, Gagnon & Griffiths / Baumann & Ziegler / Spunk Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16, 2008 Perhaps the most malleable of musical instruments is the human voice. With the ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 4 - May 18, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Nick Didkovsky / Gunda Gottschalk and Xu Fengxia / Roscoe Mitchell & The Note FactoryFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 18, 2008 Introducing Day Four of Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, FIMAV ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 5 - May 19, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Elliott Sharp, Art Bears SongbookFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 19, 2008 Programming milestone years for any festival is a challenge, but even more so than most for Festival International Musique ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 2 - May 16, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Tim Brady / Fred Frith Cosa Brava / John Zorn MoonchildFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16, 2008Outside, as it is, of the conventional summer festival season, one might think the highly ...
