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Charlie Peacock: Love Press Ex-Curio
by John Kelman
Lines between musical styles have become so blurred that it's not only impossible to pin down what's happening all the time—it's irrelevant. Bill Frisell, initially considered a jazz guitarist, now divides his time between Americana, world music, groove, bluegrass, jazz, and more—none of the genres meeting traditional definitions and all likely to be liberally cross-pollinated. Similarly, ...
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour
by John Kelman
Anyone fortunate enough to hear British free jazz icon Evan Parker deliver his solo performance at this year's Ottawa International Jazz Festival got to hear him at his most exposed. While much has been written about his extended approaches on the soprano and tenor saxophones--including circular breathing that allows him to create virtually endless waves of ...
Kerry Politzer Quartet: Labyrinth
by John Kelman
For her third outing as a leader, pianist/composer Kerry Politzer ups the ante by working with a couple of players who, while not exactly household names, have some cachet in the New York community. Chris Higgins, a lithe bassist with a tone not unlike Dave Holland's, may be as relatively unknown as Politzer, but saxophonist Andrew ...
Billy Childs Ensemble: Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1
by John Kelman
It's a mystery why pianist Billy Childs hasn't received the kind of widespread acceptance from the greater jazz community that he deserves. He's a versatile player with experience in a variety of contexts--mainstream work with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, contemporary post bop with vibraphonist Joe Locke, arranging, orchestrating, and conducting Dianne Reeves' The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan... ...
Terry Bozzio + Metropole Orkest: Chamber Works
by John Kelman
Terry Bozzio is perhaps best known as a chops-laden drummer who's more at home in the pop/rock and fusion worlds. Chamber Works, which teams him with Netherlands' Metropole Orkest--like guitarist Mike Keneally's similar collaboration on last year's The Universe Will Provide--demonstrates that Bozzio is about much, much more. A member of the late Frank Zappa's band ...
David Holland/Barre Phillips: Music from Two Basses
by John Kelman
Solo bass recordings can be a challenge for the casual listener, an entire album of bass duets even more so. Still, based on the word from ECM Records in Germany, one of the most requested titles for reissue on CD, previously only available on vinyl, is just that: Music from Two Basses, one of the label's ...
Steve Heckman Quartet: Live at Yoshi's
by John Kelman
What separates a good jazz artist from a great one? Clearly, you've got to have certain essentials to be a credible player: good time, a strong command of the language, the ability to navigate changes, and a good set of ears in order to be a responsive improviser. But to be a great player you've got ...
Dave Douglas: Keystone
by John Kelman
Paradoxically consistent yet somehow unpredictable, trumpeter Dave Douglas is an artistic rarity. Even when he records a followup to an existing project, you know it's going to be an evolution which throws in some surprises. Last year's Strange Liberation may have been a sequel to 2002's The Infinite, but the addition of Bill Frisell inspired new ...
The Stryker/Slagle Band: Live at the Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
While they've worked together regularly over the years, guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle have never recorded live together and have only one eponymous recording out under their collaborative Stryker/Slagle Band moniker. When they booked two nights at New York's Jazz Standard earlier this year to test out new material for a planned studio date, ...
Jim Hall/Enrico Pieranunzi: Duologues
by John Kelman
Some would argue that it's human nature to settle into a comfort zone as one gets older. Many people find themselves less interested in new developments, instead listening to the music of their youth, watching movies from the same time, and generally finding it more and more difficult to connect to contemporary things. When that happens ...
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