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The Wrong Object featuring Annie Whitehead and Harry Beckett: Platform One
by John Kelman
Belgium's The Wrong Object is on a roll. An album as strong as The Unbelievable Truth (MoonJune, 2007), documenting a first (and, sadly, only) encounter in 2005 with the late British saxophone legend Elton Dean, would be more than enough for any group in any year. But with Platform One, this intrepid art/rock group teams with ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: The South of Everywhere
by John Kelman
When thinking of younger guitarists making a difference, names that seem to crop up often are Rosenwinkel, Monder and Rogers. Undeniably fine guitarists all, but add Jonathan Kreisberg to that list. New for Now (Criss Cross, 2005), demonstrated Kreisberg's successfully transition from his early days as a prog-rocker and fusion-meister to modern mainstreamer, while Unearth (Mel ...
David Liebman / Roberto Tarenzi / Paolo Benedettini / Tony Arco: Dream of Nite
by John Kelman
All too often, an artist's recordings don't come anywhere close to representing his/her full scope. American artists often tour Europe with groups worthy of being heard but rarely documented--and if they are, it's on obscure labels almost never seeing the light of day Stateside. Saxophonist Dave Liebman has occasionally worked with this fine trio of Italian ...
McCoy Tyner: Afro Blue
by John Kelman
While his days as a true innovator are long past, pianist McCoy Tyner, now approaching seventy, has continued to make fine music. In many ways, his post-1970s work has been more about stylistic breadth, contrasting sharply with the more focused modal inventions with John Coltrane in the 1960s that have made him so influential and have ...
Kim Kashkashian / Robert Levin: Asturiana: Songs from Spain and Argentina
by John Kelman
It's curious that, of the instruments in the classical string quartet, the viola is the least often heard as a leading voice. Richer and deeper-toned than the violin, but higher in range than the cello, it's the ideal instrument to interpret material written for voice. Violist Kim Kashkashian has, since the mid-1980s, been a fixture on ...
One Shot: Ewaz Vader
by John Kelman
Released in 2006 on the small label adjunct to Le Triton club in the east end of Paris, Ewaz Vader deserved to be on “best of" lists for fans of fusion with a progressive rock and occasionally metal edge. Formed in 1999 by then-members of French art rock group Magma as a one-off sidebar, One Shot ...
The Complete On The Corner Sessions
by John Kelman
Much has been written about what is perhaps trumpeter Miles Davis' most controversial album, On The Corner (Columbia, 1972). Already shaken from the electric onslaught of Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970), and a series of live or, in the case of Live-Evil (Columbia, 1970), largely live releases, it was the ...
The Steve Hunter Band: Dig My Garden
by John Kelman
If Chick Corea's Return to Forever had stayed closer to the Latin and Spanish roots of Light as a Feather (Polydor, 1972) while turning somewhat more electric rather than being completely plugged in, it might have sounded something like Steve Hunter's Dig My Garden. The year the Australian bassist spent living in Spain has only further ...
Jordan Rudess: The Road Home
by John Kelman
Genesis...Yes...Gentle Giant... King Crimson... Emerson, Lake & Palmer...all significant contributors to the stylistic groundswell of progressive rock nearly forty years ago. Morphing beyond recognition, ceasing to exist or resting on their laurels, each has seen a resurgence of interest in recent years, as the internet makes it possible for fans around the world to come together ...
Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra: Dream Wheel: Live at the Sound Lounge 2006 with Florian Ross
by John Kelman
In jazz, there's rarely pressure to make the next album bigger than the last. There can often, however, be a self-imposed drive to make it different. Sydney, Australia's Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra--the flagship of its Jazzgroove Association, a musicians' collective that's been cultivating a strong jazz scene there for a decade--released one of 2006's best big band ...
