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Association P.C. + Jeremy Steig: Mama Kuku
by John Kelman
With their clever combination of Latin, free jazz, rock and other musical markers, it's a wonder that Dutch percussionist Pierre Courbois and Association P.C. never received more credit. Promising Music's thoughtfully remastered CD issue of Mama Kuku, originally released in 1974 on MPS, provides an opportunity to hear this largely spontaneous group in fine form, culled ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group: The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard
by John Kelman
It's been over a decade since Kurt Rosenwinkel's last live album. East Coast Love Affair (Fresh Sound New Talent, 1997) was the guitarist's first as a leader, and much has happened since then. Over the course of five additional albums and countless appearances as a guest on albums by artists including saxophonist Mark Turner and drummers ...
Wolfgang Dauner: Free Action
by John Kelman
Wolfgang Dauner is yet another case of an artist who's achieved a considerable reputation in Europe, but for whom greater exposure in North America has remained elusive. The multidisciplinary keyboardist has done everything from free jazz to opera, and can be heard in fine jazz/rock form on Don “Sugar Cane" Harris' recently released 1972 MPS disc, ...
Don "Sugar Cane" Harris: Sugar Cane's Got the Blues
by John Kelman
One of the greatest definers of late-1960s and early-1970s jazz was the collaboration of musicians from disparate backgrounds, a perfect example being Charlie Mariano's 1976 MPS release, Helen Twelve Trees (Promising Music/MPS, 2008), featuring ex-Mahavishnu keyboardist Jan Hammer alongside ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Equally, 1972's Sugar Cane's Got the Blues--another MPS title seeing issue on CD ...
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by John Kelman
Despite the belief, in some corners, that jazz as an American form has to contain certain traditional and specifically cultural components in order to make it jazz, globalization has resulted in artists examining sources farther abroad to place in an improvisational context. The four year-old [em] brings an impressionistic European classicism to [em] 3, but in ...
The Dave Pike Set: Live at the Philharmonie
by John Kelman
While vibraphonist Gary Burton has garnered greater acclaim, it's hard to listen to The Dave Pike Set's Live at the Philharmonie--originally released on MPS in 1970 and finally making it to CD--and not draw some comparisons. At the time of this 1969 Berlin recording, both vibraphonists were working with similar line-ups, including ...
Jan Zehrfeld's Panzerballett: Starke Stucke
by John Kelman
Those who bemoaned the breakup of the short-lived quintet version of mid-1990s group Lost Tribe which, along with saxophonist David Binney, bassist Fima Ephron and drummer Ben Perowsky, featured the twin guitar salvo of David Gilmore and Adam Rogers, will welcome the ACT debut of guitarist Jan Zeherfeld's Panzerballett. With a similar lineup, Panzerballett is as ...
Brad Mehldau Trio: Live
by John Kelman
It's been three years since Jeff Ballard replaced original drummer Jorge Rossy in pianist Brad Mehldau's trio with bassist Larry Grenadier. While the trio has been busy on its own and with guitar icon Pat Metheny in support of Metheny Mehldau (Nonesuch, 2006) and Quartet (Nonesuch, 2007), it's also been three years since Day is Done ...
George Duke: Faces in Reflection
by John Kelman
Keyboardist George Duke's career may have swerved towards pop and smooth jazz in recent years, but his mid-1960s emergence suggested a future as bright as contemporaries including Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Seminal work with renegade guitarist/composer Frank Zappa in the mid-1970s further cemented a reputation built on earlier recordings with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, saxophonist Cannonball ...
Charlie Mariano: Helen 12 Trees
by John Kelman
Of labels awaiting first-time release on CD, Germany's MPS is the undisputed holy grail. With plans to release fifteen of its 400+ titles in carefully remastered and beautifully designed mini-LP sleeve packages each year, Promising Music is righting a wrong in the best possible way. Always eclectic, MPS ran the gamut from free jazz to fusion ...
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