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Hakon Kornstad: Single Engine
by John Kelman
Solo saxophone recordings are hardly new in the jazz canon, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one like Kornstad's Single Engine. Håkon Kornstad's star has been on the ascendance on the Scandinavian scene in diverse improvisational contexts including free group Tri-Dim, Jazzland owner Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conception of Jazz club music and Wibutee, a group marrying ...
Dewey Redman Quartet: The Struggle Continues
by John Kelman
While he'll likely be remembered more as an avant-garde/free player, Dewey Redman was equally at home with a jazz waltz or a soulful blues as he was more experimental fare. The late tenor saxophonist made this crystal clear on 1982's The Struggle Continues, but it's never been available on CD until now. It's an album that ...
Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Seconds
by John Kelman
Tim Berne's Bloodcount Seconds Screwgun Records 2007 While documentation of saxophonist/composer Tim Berne's remarkable Bloodcount has been most widely available on Lowlife, Poisoned Minds and Memory Select--all culled from four nights in Paris in 1994, released that year on JMT and ultimately reissued in remastered form ...
Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus
by John Kelman
Of the ECM titles that have remained unavailable on CD, woodwind multi-instrumentalist Bennie Maupin's The Jewel in the Lotus (1974) has long been considered a holy grail for collectors in search of a vinyl copy, and a title that's been on many fans' wish lists for release on CD. Well, it's finally happened and it's been ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by John Kelman
Once Carla Bley finds musicians she likes, she sticks with them. Bassist Steve Swallow, also Bley's life partner, dates back with the pianist/composer/bandleader to Musique Mecanique (WATT, 1979). Saxophonist Andy Sheppard first appeared on Bley's classic Fleur Carnivore (WATT, 1989). She's recorded with both on the trio Songs with Legs (WATT, 1995), but it was on ...
Yaron Herman Trio: A Time for Everything
by John Kelman
Sometimes the power of a back story can eclipse the music it supports. For Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman it's a close call, but A Time for Everything is such a refreshing and multifaceted album that a little background is necessary. Herman, still in his mid-twenties, began playing piano at sixteen, a shift ...
Phil Turcio / Ric Fierabracci / Joel Rosenblatt: Hemispheres
by John Kelman
When saxophonist Bill Evans brought his Soulgrass project to the 2007 Ottawa Jazz Festival, what differentiated it significantly from Béla Fleck and the Flecktones was that, stellar playing aside, this was a band that grooved hard, largely due to the rock-solid support of bassist David Livolsi and drummer Joel Rosenblatt. Hemispheres is the first release by ...
Joni Mitchell: Shine
by John Kelman
With a remarkable career that includes the near-perfect Asylum triptych of Court and Spark (1974), The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975) and Hejira (1976), it's almost beyond reasonable expectation for Joni Mitchell to produce an album that, more than three decades later, lives up to those early classics. Still, while Shine doesn't quite have the magic ...
Stanley Clarke: The Toys of Men
by John Kelman
Stanley Clarke's influence continues to be felt long past his 1970s glory days as a member of pianist Chick Corea's flagship fusion group Return to Forever and as a solo artist whose School Days (Epic, 1976) remains required listening for any aspiring electric bassist. In the intervening years, despite the occasional high profile gig, he's been ...
John Geggie / Brad Turner / Ian Froman: Ottawa, Canada, October 6, 2007
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Brad Turner/Ian Froman Geggie Concert Series National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada October 6, 2007 Ottawa bassist John Geggie opened up his seventh season of music without a safety net by bringing two Canadian artists--one from the west coast, and the other an expat Ottawa native ...
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