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Iain Ballamy Anorak: More Jazz
by John Kelman
It's easy to forget that many musicians who are pushing the boundaries of improvised music do have an understanding of the conventional jazz tradition. Whether it's guitar icon John McLaughlin and his fusion group The 4th Dimension reverently discussing Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise, 1966) in the tour bus or German bassist Eberhard Weber swinging Carla ...
Erik Friedlander: Block Ice & Propane
by John Kelman
Erik Friedlander's last solo cello disc, the avant-tinged Maldoror (Brassland, 2003), was a series of in-the-moment improvisations inspired by 19th century French surrealist poetry. Block Ice & Propane is an entirely different beast, stimulated by memories of childhood camping trips across the United States, on which Friedlander's parents took him each summer. It's no less adventurous ...
Eivind Aarset: Sonic Codex
by John Kelman
While there are still plenty of the signposts that make this an Eivind Aarset album, Sonic Codex represents some significant changes for a Norwegian artist who has become the most important (and in demand) guitarist to emerge from Scandinavia since Terje Rypdal in the early 1970s. While Aarset's almost pathological avoidance of ...
Michael Musillami Trio w/ Mark Feldman: The Treatment
by John Kelman
Violinist Mark Feldman may be the link between John Abercrombie's The Third Quartet (ECM, 2007) and Michael Musillami's The Treatment, but there are as many differences as there are similarities between these two guitarists' projects. Abercrombie's group leans more towards a chamber jazz approach that, while not without its occasional edges and unmistakable freedom, is sparer ...
Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude
by John Kelman
Like a three act play, guitarist Charlie Hunter and percussionist Bobby Previte's Groundtruther project saves the best for last. Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004) teamed them with intrepid saxophonist Greg Osby and while both Hunter and Previte have never been technologically challenged, it represented, individually, their most extreme integration of processing/sampling with conventional instrumentation. Likewise, Longitude (Thirsty ...
Manu Katche: Playground
by John Kelman
It may not appear until the fourth track in, but the propulsive “So Groovy" could easily have been the title for the follow-up to Manu Katché's award-winning ECM debut, 2005's Neighbourhood. Still, Playground is no less fitting since it's an album that demonstrates--with three-fifths of Neighbourhood's members reconvened, and two younger but emergent players replacing the ...
Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by John Kelman
In a genre dependent on interaction, changing only one member of a group can yield significantly different results. For Voices, the second in his New York Trio Recordings trilogy, pianist Marc Copland retains bassist Gary Peacock from Modinha (Pirouet, 2006), but replaces Bill Stewart with enduring percussive colorist Paul Motian. The result is an album that ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 3: Opening Night
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7No matter how well rehearsed a group is, opening night represents greater risks than usual--even with a group like John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension, where improvisational chance-taking and in-the- moment interaction are defining characteristics. There's ...
Lenore Raphael: Invitation: Lenore Raphael Live
by John Kelman
Sometimes it's not necessary to break new ground; sometimes all that's required is to be honest, unassuming and deeply committed to the music. Pianist Lenore Raphael has been building, over the course of four previous albums, a solid discography that sits smack dab in the middle of the jazz mainstream. With bassist ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 2: The Rehearsal
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 It may not come as a total surprise, especially from an artist with the longevity and stylistic breadth of John McLaughlin, but riding in a van with the guitarist and his new group, The ...
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