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The Joe Locke Quartet: Sticks and Strings
by John Kelman
Joe Locke has always struck that rare balance between reverence for things past and a forward-thinking mindset. Live in Seattle (Origin, 2006) brought a firm, modernistic edge to a set of original material by the vibraphonist and keyboardist/co-leader Geoffrey Keezer. Rev-elation (Sharp Nine, 2005), teaming Locke with the Milt Jackson Tribute Band, was steeped in the ...
School of the Arts Featuring T Lavitz: School of the Arts
by John Kelman
It may be an all-acoustic affair (with the exception of electric bass), but School of the Arts bristles with fusion energy. That will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with even a few of the names on this project spearheaded by pianist T Lavitz, who first came to attention in 1979 when he joined The ...
Jamie Fox: When I Get Home
by John Kelman
These days it's all too easy to hear the reference points for younger guitarists. Metheny, Frisell, Scofield... it's hard to find up-and-coming players who haven't been touched by at least one of these benchmarks, and Jamie Fox is no different on his debut as a leader, When I Get Home. Still, one would be hard-pressed to ...
The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam: Go Between
by John Kelman
Those who think of Bill Bruford only as art rock drummer for groups including Yes and King Crimson, fusion drummer with his late-1970s group Bruford, or even (finally, after all these years) a jazz drummer with his ongoing Earthworks projects and improvisation-heavy duets with Dutch pianist Michiel Borstlap, still don't know the whole story. Those familiar ...
Delta Saxophone Quartet: Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening - The Music of Soft Machine
by John Kelman
The legacy of Soft Machine continues to be felt to this day through alumni-related projects including Soft Bounds, Soft Mountain and Soft Machine Legacy. But it's the Delta Saxophone Quartet's Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening--The Music of Soft Machine that may be the most revelational...and revolutionary look at a legendary British group that ran the ...
Daevid Allen & Euterpe: Good Morning!
by John Kelman
When Daevid Allen either left (or was forced to leave) his flagship band Gong in 1974 following the release of the group's classic seminal space-rock, nascent jamband Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, where he'd go next was anybody's guess. Gong would gradually transition into a fusion group led by percussionist Pierre Moerlen, while Allen retired to his ...
Gwilym Simcock: Perception
by John Kelman
It's rare when an artist emerges to accolades like “the most important new pianist on the British scene," and even rarer when such praise is justified. It's rarer still when it's an artist like Gwilym Simcock who, at twenty-six, has won a bevy of British awards despite coming to jazz from a classical background less than ...
Greg Burk: Ivy Trio
by John Kelman
Time can be a funny thing. Recorded prior to his last trio disc, Nothing, Knowing (482 Music, 2005), Greg Burk's Ivy Trio shares more in common than just format. Ivy Trio provides alternate views of three Burk originals--"Look to the Neutrino, “Blink to Be and “Operetta --but with a trio featuring bassist Jonathan Robinson and drummer ...
Jan Lundgren: Magnum Mysterium
by John Kelman
A diverse artist who has demonstrated equal aplomb covering the Great American Songbook and traditional Swedish folk songs, Jan Lundgren's musical interests seem limitless in scope. Magnum Mysterium is the Swedish pianist's most ambitious record to date, where he tackles European renaissance sacred music in collaboration with the Gustaf Sjökvist Chamber Choir and bassist/cellist Lars Danielsson. ...
Bugge Wesseltoft: IM
by John Kelman
Following a series of releases that, under the imprint “New Conception of Jazz," find the place where improvisation, jazz and dance club beats meet, pianist Bugge Wesseltoft's IM might be considered a significant departure. And significant it is, though it won't be a complete surprise to those who have either attended Norway's Punkt festival, or have ...
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