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Chris Laurence Quartet: New View
by John Kelman
Bassist Chris Laurence, nearing sixty, has been a fixture on the British scene for many years, working regularly in the jazz sphere with artists including reedman John Surman, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and pianist John Taylor. He's recorded pop sessions with the likes of Elvis Costello, Sting and David Gilmour, and remains active in the classical community, ...
Hugh Marsh: Hugmars
by John Kelman
Hugh Marsh may not be well-known to many outside his native Canada, where he's considered the country's leading improvising violinist, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been heard. Along with high profile recording and touring gigs over the years with singer/songwriters Bruce Cockburn and Loreena McKennitt and recently with influential trumpeter Jon Hassell's Maarifa Street project; ...
Adam Rogers: Time and the Infinite
by John Kelman
While Adam Rogers is no stranger to the standards songbook, the guitarist's three releases as a leader have focused almost entirely on his challenging yet accessible compositions. They've also utilized the same personnel. Art of the Invisible (Criss Cross, 2001) introduced a guitar/piano/bass/drums quartet that would, with the addition of saxophone, flesh out to a consistent ...
Joel Harrison: Harbor
by John Kelman
Since his 2003 breakout Free Country (ACT), Joel Harrison has focused largely on liberal and highly unliteral takes of traditional songs, popular country tunes and, on Harrison on Harrison (HighNote, 2005), the music of the late George Harrison. Harbor represents a couple of significant departures from Harrison's recent recorded work. First, it's a ...
McCoy Tyner: Mosaic Select 25
by John Kelman
By the time pianist McCoy Tyner turned thirty in 1968 he'd already built a successful career as a sideman and leader. He got his first break with trombonist Curtis Fuller in 1959, but by the following year had joined up with saxophonist John Coltrane. The rest, as they say, is history. From 1960 through 1965, Tyner ...
Robin Williamson: The Iron Stone
by John Kelman
Scottish singer/multi-instrumentalist Robin Williamson continues to mine the nexus of traditional song and free improvisation on The Iron Stone. Back from Skirting the River Road (ECM, 2002) are Mat Maneri (viola and Hardanger fiddle) and Swedish traditionalist Ale Möller (on a plethora of instruments plucked, pressed or blown), while renowned bassist Barre Phillips makes his first ...
Weather Report: Live at Montreux 1976
by John Kelman
Weather ReportLive at Montreux 1976 Eagle Eye Media 2007 When '70s fusion group Weather Report played the Montreux Festival in 1976, it was on the cusp of the wider popularity it would receive the following year with the release of its best-selling album Heavy Weather (Legacy, 1977). From then on the ...
Jeff Berlin: Aneurythms
by John Kelman
He's only released a handful of albums under his own name over the past thirty years, but bassist Jeff Berlin remains a singularly distinctive electric bassist. That he's chosen to spend as much time as an educator at the self-started Players School of Music in Florida as he has performing and recording just means that he's ...
Stephan Micus: On the Wing
by John Kelman
Stephan Micus' last album, Life (ECM, 2004), represented the multi-instrumentalist's most ambitious vocal album to date, layering as many as 14 voices at once. On the Wing represents a complete departure, his first entirely instrumental album in 17 years. The painstaking piecing together of many layers of multiple instruments (with Micus performing every part, creating solo ...
Lars Danielsson: Melange Bleu
by John Kelman
Music--improvised or scored--is inextricably linked with how it's arranged or orchestrated, a point made crystal clear by Lars Danielsson's Mélange Bleu. The bonus track on the Swedish bassist/cellist/ pianist's Libera Me (ACT, 2004) hinted at the direction Danielsson would take on Mélange Blue--a blending of acoustic instruments, concert orchestra and technology to create a lush new ...
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