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John Ruocco: Am I Asking Too Much?
by John Kelman
Born in the United States, John Ruocco is one of many artists who have found a fuller life abroad. The 56 year-old saxophonist/clarinetist has lived in The Netherlands for years and is a fixture on both the Dutch and Belgian scenes, with a significant discography and current activities including directing both the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and ...
Alboran Trio: Near Gale
by John Kelman
Groups like e.s.t. and The Bad Plus have undeniably given the decades old piano trio format a much needed kick-in-the-ass but, as innovative as they've been and continue to be, some of their founding premises run the risk of inherent self-limitation. Still, despite e.s.t.'s ever-increasing pop sensibility and integration of electronics and sound manipulation, the extended ...
Mungolian Jet Set: Beauty Came to Us in Stone
by John Kelman
It's only in performance, that Paal “Strangefruit" Nyhus's true value can truly be appreciated. Yes, he's a turntablist (purists can prefix that with “dreaded," though they'd be grossly mistaken), but he's also much more. He's a sound sculptor who, like Brian Eno and John Cage, finds music around every corner. He possesses an extensive record library, ...
Jason Seizer: Time Being
by John Kelman
Now that Germany's Pirouet label is getting some much-needed distribution in North America, and is growing its roster to include a number of American artists who, while known and appreciated in Europe, receive less than their due in their native country, it's also time to have a look at some of its lesser-known European contingent. Tenor ...
Wolfgang Haffner: Acoustic Shapes
by John Kelman
There are those who view the blending of electronica textures and rhythms with jazz is akin to the coming of the Antichrist but, like it or not, it's an increasingly pervasive component of modern jazz. In North America, artists including Wallace Roney, Dave Douglas and Mike Mainieri have been incorporating sampling, turntables and real-time sonic processing ...
Interviewer Newsletter: April 2008
by John Kelman
Dear fellow AAJ interviewers, With the number of interviews and interviewers on the rise, it seemed appropriate to create a periodic newsletter that addresses issues specific to interviews alone. The plan is to publish this Interviewer Newsletter quarterly, and if any of you have suggestions for issues you'd like to see covered, feel free to email ...
Steve Reich: Daniel Variations
by John Kelman
When a composer creaters an instantly recognizable style, there's always the risk that the listener will become complacent, feeling little variation to distinguish one piece of writing from another. Certainly Steve Reich--one of minimalism's founding fathers who has since gone on to expand his personal concept of the form--bears a number of stylistic markers, making it ...
The Bennie Maupin Quartet: Early Reflections
by John Kelman
After establishing his reputation in the 1960s and 1970s with artists including Miles Davis, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin mysteriously disappeared for over a decade. Re-emerging in the 1990s, it's still only been recently--with the release of the overdue reissue of his 1974 ECM classic, The Jewel in the Lotus in 2007, and his ...
Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes
by John Kelman
A relative latecomer to jazz, occupying the classical and contemporary composition spheres until the age of 28, Marilyn Crispell's early ventures into jazz and improvised music were in the context of a more aggressive approach informed by Cecil Taylor. Over the past decade, however, while the pianist's sense of adventure hasn't diminished, she's introduced a sparer ...
Jacob Young: Sideways
by John Kelman
Born of an American father and Norwegian mother, Jacob Young's 2004 ECM debut, Evening Falls, may have introduced him to a more global audience, but he'd already been active on the Norwegian scene for a decade, releasing three albums for smaller independent labels. Still, with a strong quintet that is now back for Sideways, the guitarist ...
