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John Surman: Way Back When
by John Kelman
Musical developments rarely occur in a vacuum. While many look to Miles Davis and his associates in the late '60s as the progenitors of jazz-rock fusion, the truth is that a wide range of artists were exploring the juncture of these two styles, including New Zealander Mike Nock and his group Fourth Way, and American vibraphonist ...
John Geggie & Mark Dresser at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Mark Dresser National Arts Centre Ottawa, Canada May 14, 2005 To close out this year's season of Five Shades of Geggie--five performances that continue to demonstrate local bassist John Geggie's breadth of style and ability to recruit a remarkable variety of collaborators, this year including pianist Myra Melford and ...
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Day 5-5
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Following day four's triple threat of Anthony Braxton Sextet, Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, one might expect the final day to be anticlimactic. And to some extent they'd be right, but, for the ...
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Day 4-5
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 The fourth day of the International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (FIMAV) was clearly the most anticipated, if attendance was anything to go by. With packed houses for shows including Anthony Braxton Sextet, Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet and William Parker's Little Huey ...
Masada: Sanhedrin: Unreleased Studio Recordings 1994-1997
by John Kelman
When alto saxophonist/composer John Zorn brought trumpeter Dave Douglas, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron together for a series of sessions dedicated to bringing the harmonic roots of traditional Jewish music into a new improvisational context, little did he know that his songbook, ultimately growing to include over two hundred compositions, would grow into what ...
SFJazz Collective: SFJAZZ Collective
by John Kelman
Sometimes an artist receives too much exposure too early in his or her career. Case in point: saxophonist Joshua Redman, who became a leader too soon with his self-titled debut in '93. Granted he'd had some experience in the previous couple of years with father Dewey, as well as with drummer Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band. ...
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Day 3-5
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 A word of warning to the faint of heart: Saturday was Noise Improv day at the 22nd annual International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, and with one notable exception, it was defined almost exclusively by a kind of visceral emotional catharsis ...
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Day 2-5
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5What exactly is Musique Actuelle? Based on performances on the second day of the 22nd International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, it's a somewhat enigmatic classification. Is it jazz? Certainly there are elements, although one might be hard pressed to find anything that ...
Joshua Redman Elastic Band: Momentum
by John Kelman
While some may pine for the glory days of the '50s when jazz was more “pure, the reality is that, artistically speaking at least, the present is a great time for jazz. A more cosmopolitan affair than ever before, jazz has seen younger artists grow up with exposure to so many styles of music--inside and outside ...
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Day 1-5
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 For those who have heard of FIMAV, the International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, but have never been, its location may come something of a surprise. Located about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City in Canada, Victoriaville is a small town that ...
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