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Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up Live
by John Kelman
Pat Metheny GroupThe Way Up LiveEagle Eye Media 2006 One of most exciting aspects of live performance is the opportunity to see how a group translates music from the studio to the concert stage. With production values that more closely resemble those of a marquee rock group, the nearly three-decade-old ...
David Binney: Cities and Desire
by John Kelman
It's no surprise that altoist David Binney could come up with a record as evocative as Cities and Desire, but it is surprising that he could come up with it in a single-day session. Like last year's Criss Cross disc Bastion of Sanity, his new album is more of a flat-out blowing session than his other ...
Aaron Irwin Group: Into the Light
by John Kelman
The world is moving at an increasingly rapid pace, so it's not surprising that the impact of influential artists can be heard more immediately. New York-based altoist Aaron Irwin demonstrated plenty of promise with his independently released 2004 debut, Wide Awake. The mature approach to improvisation that belied his young age is still present on Into ...
Bruford: Rock Goes to College
by John Kelman
Bruford Rock Goes to College Winterfold Records 2006 Charting the career of drummer Bill Bruford, one has to sometimes wonder exactly what was he thinking? On the cusp of major commercial success on the heels of Close to the Edge (Atlantic, 1972), Bruford chose to leave Yes to join King ...
John Moulder: Trinity
by John Kelman
While it's possible to overstate the importance of parallel careers, it's difficult to avoid touching on the subject when it comes to John Moulder. The ordained priest has also managed an active musical career in Chicago as a guitarist, most notably as a member of ex-Pat Metheny Group drummer Paul Wertico's trio for the past 12 ...
Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 1: Modinha
by John Kelman
The piano trio may be a longstanding jazz tradition, but that doesn't necessarily make it anachronistic. Pianist Marc Copland has been forging an increasingly distinctive identity that straddles the line between modern mainstream and greater abstraction for the past couple of decades. For this sublime recording, Copland recruited bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Bill Stewart--who last ...
Scott Kinsey: Kinesthetics
by John Kelman
Given Legacy's recent release of the retrospective Weather Report box Forecast: Tomorrow, keyboardist Scott Kinsey's debut as a leader couldn't come at a better time. Most emerging pianists cite Corea, Evans, Hancock and Jarrett as influences, so it's refreshing to hear someone whose primary reference point is Weather Report co-founder Joe Zawinul. Kinsey, like Zawinul, possesses ...
Taylor's Universe with Karsten Vogel: Oyster's Apprentice
by John Kelman
If I learned anything on my recent trip to Punktfest in Norway, it's that there's a world of music out there which is lucky if it even receives a passing nod in North America. The internet has made it possible to gain access to much of this material, although one has to know where to look. ...
Nucleus: UK Tour '76
by John Kelman
If British jazz/rock progenitor Ian Carr and his Nucleus group had made any kind of splash in the US with early albums like Elastic Rock (Vertigo, 1970), they had become largely forgotten by the mid-1970s. That's unfortunate, because they continued to record and tour in the UK and Europe and, with the exit of keyboardist/reedman/composer Karl ...
The Great Deceiver (Live 1973-1974)
by John Kelman
Despite bassist/stick player Tony Levin stepping in to replace departing touch guitarist Trey Gunn, the incarnation of King Crimson that released The ConstruKction Of Light (Virgin, 2000) and considerably stronger The Power To Believe (Sanctuary, 2003) seems to be, at the very least, on hiatus. While Crimson's only remaining original member, guitarist Robert ...
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