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Tim Hagans: Alone Together
by John Kelman
On the surface, Tim Hagans' Alone Together looks more like a Marc Copland disc with trumpeter Hagans as the leading voice. The rhythm section is Copland's longstanding trio, responsible for albums that include the pianist's resplendent Some Love Songs (Pirouet, 2005). The set list, like many of Copland's, is a mix of re-imagined standards and the ...
Skyphone: Avellaneda
by John Kelman
Following up its 2004 Rune Grammofon debut, Fabula, Skyphone's Avellaneda may be the most beautiful near-pop record of 2008. This Danish trio makes music so song-like that it could, with added lyrics and a different approach to production, easily exist in the kind of dreamy experimental post-rock terrain of Iceland's Sigur Rós. In its seamless integration ...
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 ...
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