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Soft Machine: Live at the Paradiso 1969
by John Kelman
In a recent interview guitarist Nels Cline described seeing John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra as “...like having all your body hair singed off in one fell swoop." Similar words could be used to describe British progressive rockers Soft Machine on Live at the Paradiso 1969. Their raw energy and sheer power, recorded in Amsterdam shortly before the ...
Stephan Micus: Life
by John Kelman
Over a thirty-year career, multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has created his own world, one based on a life of constant study of diverse culture, religion, musical instruments and form. Each of the sixteen albums he has recorded to date has incorporated newly acquired instruments from places as far abroad as Armenia, Bali and Tibet. Micus records his ...
American Drummers Achievement Award: Honoring Steve Gadd
by John Kelman
Steve Gadd American Drummers Achivement Awards: Honoring Steve Gadd Hudson Music 2004 One would be hard-pressed to find a drummer who has been as widely-recorded and as widely-varied, style-wise, as Steve Gadd. Sure, there are drummers out there who are as readily recognizable - in jazz Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, ...
Jeff Parker/Kevin Drumm/Michael Zerang: Out Trios Volume Two
by John Kelman
When the most striking thing about an album is the packaging, you know you're in trouble. Music, at its best, should draw on a broad palette of colours, rather than being something that is starkly black and white, with nary the slightest shading of grey. Guitarists Jeff Parker and Kevin Drumm team up with percussionist Michael ...
Branford Marsalis Quartet Performs Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam
by John Kelman
Branford Marsalis Quartet Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam Marsalis Music 2004 It takes a lot of gumption to tackle a classic like John Coltrane's A Love Supreme , and saxophonist Branford Marsalis has chosen to do it not once, but twice; first on the '02 ...
Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey: Out Trios Volume Three: Ash and Tabula
by John Kelman
Guitarist Nels Cline sure does get around. In the past few months we've seen the release of the latest Nels Cline Singers disc, The Giant Pin ; a collaboration with Vinny Golia, The Entire Time ; and a quasi-ambient duet with bassist Devin Sarno, Buried on Bunker Hill. This, in addition to hitting the road with ...
Children on the Corner: Rebirth
by John Kelman
It seems to be open season on Miles Davis tribute bands paying homage to his '70s electric output, which until the past fifteen years was looked at with derision rather than as the groundbreaking music it truly was. But few have captured the essence of what the music was about. Arguably closest has been Henry Kaiser/Wadada ...
Tom McIntosh: With Malice Toward None
by John Kelman
Like bassist Percy Heath, who finally released his first album at the age of 80, trombonist Tom McIntosh has waited for his own record. Something of a musician's musician, over the past 45 years McIntosh has spent a lot of time playing with and contributing compositions to a wide range of artists, including James Moody, Dizzy ...
Fred Simon: Remember the River
by John Kelman
While most readers won't know the name Fred Simon, the pianist has kept admirable company over the years, including woodwind multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless from the genre-bending group Oregon, and bassist/producer Steve Rodby, best known for his work with Pat Metheny Group since '82. Both artists team up with Simon for his latest release, Remember the River ...
Steven Bernstein: Evaluating The Diaspora Series
by John Kelman
Trumpeter/composer/bandleader Steven Bernstein may have made his name with groups as far-flung as Sex Mob and the Lounge Lizards, but it is quite possible that his most enduring work, the effort that will be most remembered when people look back at a long and fruitful career, is his series of Diaspora recordings on John Zorn's Tzadik ...
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