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The Way Up
by John Kelman
Like him or not, the one thing you cannot accuse guitar icon Pat Metheny of is complacency. Over the course of his thirty-year career he has tackled everything from the Midwestern folk sensibility of New Chautauqua to the free-spirited interplay of his collaboration with Ornette Coleman, Song X. But as significant and diverse as his solo ...
Dave Douglas/Nomad: Mountain Passages
by John Kelman
With trumpeter Dave Douglas the only clear thing to expect is the unexpected. His work has ranged from tribute albums to Wayne Shorter and Booker Little to Eastern European explorations with his Tiny Bell Trio; from the electronica of Freak In to post-Miles excursions on The Infinite. While developing a personal vernacular that blends staggeringly through-composed ...
Stephan Micus: Solitary Pursuits
by John Kelman
Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has been working outside the musical mainstream for over 30 years. With more than 15 albums for the German ECM label and, in the early days, its sister label JAPO, Micus has created a body of work that is the result of years of extensive traveling around the world to both acquire and ...
Andre Bush: Start from Silence
by John Kelman
In his biography, guitarist Andr' Bush cites creative composers/players including Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and, most notably, Pat Metheny as seminal influences. And, to be sure, Bush's disposition towards longer-form composition clearly puts him in the same general space as Metheny and Shorter, with his latest release, Start from Silence , being filled with pieces of ...
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by John Kelman
Jimmy Smith Retrospective Blue Note 2004 With the proliferation of Hammond B-3 organ players that have emerged in the past ten years including Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Goldings, John Medeski and Dan Wall, it's hard to imagine a time when the instrument wasn't a common texture And, as the liner notes ...
Joel Miller: Mandala
by John Kelman
Psychology icon Carl Jung believed that the Buddhist Mandala--a circle enclosing a square with a deity on each side--was representative of the “nuclear atom" of the human psyche, the unknown essence of the soul. Ever-pervasive in dreams, children's drawings and more, he felt this simple representation depicted humanity's way of forming a harmonious relationship with the ...
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis: A Love Supreme
by John Kelman
In the last year there's been a resurgence of interest in John Coltrane's epochal A Love Supreme. First saxophonist Branford Marsalis' quartet released a live DVD with an incendiary version of the suite, demonstrating with the same instrumentation how an ensemble could be reverent without being imitative, capturing the essence of the piece without sounding like ...
The Peter Erskine Trio Live at Jazz Baltica
by John Kelman
The Peter Erskine Trio Live at Jazz Baltica Hudson Music Recorded 1993; DVD released 2004 American drummer Peter Erskine's mid-to-late '90s trio, featuring British pianist John Taylor and Swedish double-bassist Palle Danielsson, was arguably one of the best piano trios of the time, albeit never reaching the kind of broad ...
Zony Mash: Farewell Shows
by John Kelman
Quirky like Medeski, Martin & Wood but more overtly groove-centric, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz's Zony Mash has always been the intelligent alternative to the often-meandering jam band mentality. Horvitz's idiosyncratic compositions provide a framework for the rest of the group--drummer Andy Roth, bassist Keith Lowe and guitarist Tim Young--but Zony Mash has developed a collective sound since ...
Ray Russell: Why Not Now
by John Kelman
Avoiding the worst trappings of New Age music yet leaning to its atmospheric ambience, guitarist Ray Russell's 1987 album Childscape , now released in remastered and expanded form as Why Not Now , is as interesting for what it's not as for what it is. It's too intrusive and insistent to be ambient; too ethereal to ...
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