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St: Coincidences
by John Kelman
Creating music to accompany visual arts is nothing new. Soundtracks to film often act as equal partners--just imagine Hitchcock's shower scene from Psycho without Bernard Hermann's piercing strings, for example. However, adapting music to literature is an altogether rarer concept. Film leaves little of the visual to the imagination, while writing often relies heavily on one's ...
Matt Renzi: The Cave
by John Kelman
While not an uncommon format, the saxophone trio is often a more challenging context than piano or guitar-led groups. Without the benefit of a chordal instrument, a saxophone/bass/drums trio can feel like a quartet minus one, as opposed to a complete entity unto itself. Not so with this group led by saxophonist/clarinetist Matt Renzi, a San ...
The Great Jazz Trio: 'S Wonderful
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that when he inaugurated the Great Jazz Trio in the mid-1970s, pianist Hank Jones was approaching sixty. At that point he'd already built a long, prestigious career working with virtually every significant mainstream jazz artist to emerge since the late 1930s. It's even more remarkable that, thirty years later, not only is ...
Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano: Immolation/Immersion
by John Kelman
Guitarist Nels Cline seems to lead at least a double life. On one hand he's been a significant force on the edgy Left Coast music scene for the past thirty years, collaborating on fearless explorations into the unknowns of free improvisation and left-of-center composition with artists like Vinny Golia, Gregg Bendian, and Steuart Liebig--not to mention ...
Various Artists: Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked
by John Kelman
While traditionalists will probably balk at the idea of applying modern remix techniques to classic 1960s material from the Impulse! catalogue, Impulsive! does a good job of extending musical creativity beyond the traditional purview of the original composer/performers. After all, British saxophonist Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble gives equal billing to conventional instrumentalists and the artists who ...
Bell Orchestre / Clogs / Snailhouse Warm Up Montreal's Theatre Plaza
by John Kelman
Bell Orchestre / Clogs / Snailhouse Theatre Plaza, Montreal, Quebec November 10, 2005 It may have been the day that the first hints of snow were in the sky, but the atmosphere was warm and cosy at Montreal's Theatre Plaza on November 10, 2005, where Montreal-based Snailhouse and Bell Orchestre ...
Carli Mu: Maverick
by John Kelman
Some feel the only way to remain true to the jazz tradition is to focus one's energies exclusively within that domain. Others believe that all experience is valuable, and that a stylistically broad career needn't tarnish an ability to remain truthful to a jazz aesthetic. Carli Muñoz clearly fits into the latter camp. The Puerto Rican ...
Robert Walter: Super Heavy Organ
by John Kelman
Organist Robert Walter is best known as a founding member of the dance-jazz funksters known as Greyboy Allstars. But since the mid-1990s he's also been involved in other projects, like the George Clinton tribute band The Clinton Administration--featuring instrumental workups of classic Parliament and Funkadelic tunes--and Robert Walter's 20th Congress, an update on 1970s jazz/funk. Super ...
The Crimson Jazz Trio: The King Crimson Songbook Volume One
by John Kelman
With all manner of jazz musicians reinventing the music of contemporary pop artists today, it's inevitable that somebody would decide to take a close look at the cream of progressive rock, reinventing it in a more decidedly jazz context. If artists like Brad Mehldau can reshape Radiohead, then why not re-examine King Crimson, a seminal influence? ...
Miles in Paris
by John Kelman
Miles Davis Miles in Paris Warner Music Vision 71550-2 2005 (1990) While there's considerable controversy about the validity of the late trumpeter Miles Davis' musical choices during the last decade of his life, anyone who had the opportunity to experience him in concert during that time knew that, while he ...
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