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Tricycle: Emerge and See
by John Kelman
With artists like Bela Fleck and Bill Frisell broadening the musical landscape over which improvised music can dwell, is it surprising that a group should come along that blends some of their more worldly concerns with a certain element of pop hook and singsong-iness? Banjo player Jayme Stone and guitarist Kevin Manaugh do just that with ...
Bang on a Can: Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
by John Kelman
As much as the Kronos Quartet paved the way for modern chamber musicians to broaden their horizons by recording genre-busting albums including Pieces of Africa , Bang on a Can has extended that road by, amongst other things, interpreting ambient works like Brian Eno's Music for Airports. Both groups, one a more conventional chamber quartet, the ...
Matthew Shipp: Harmony and Abyss
by John Kelman
Following up pianist Matthew Shipp's Equilibrium, a breakthrough record in a career of musical high points, was clearly a difficult challenge. And, to be sure, as revolutionary as Shipp's career has been and as much a shift in direction as Equilibrium was, his new disk, Harmony and Abyss is more of an evolutionary record, taking the ...
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
by John Kelman
Oscar Peterson Music in the Key of Oscar View Video 2004 With a career now in its seventh decade, Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson has seen some turbulent times, and no more evident is that fact than on Music in the Key of Oscar , which collects a two part television ...
Bang on a Can: Phillip Glass: 5ths
by John Kelman
When the minimalist movement emerged in the mid-'60s, it was, for some, a refreshing alternative to the atonal arrhythmic music dominating contemporary classical music. With the emergence of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass came a form that relied on comprehensibility and an almost hypnotic engagement, one that seemed custom-fitted for the experimental, but retrospectively ...
Branford Marsalis Quartet: Eternal
by John Kelman
When you hear that an artist is doing a ballad record, the first thing that comes to mind is “accessible product, commercial album for the masses." And, truth be told, some records seem to fit that description perfectly--Michael Brecker's Nearness of You: The Ballad Book , for example, sported an ace team of players but was ...
Gary Husband and Friends: Aspire
by John Kelman
Sometimes you just never know when something is going to come up and hit you over the head. Gary Husband, better-known as a drummer, did just that with '01's The Things I See , recently reissued by Angel Air Records, where he delivered an inventive and heartfelt solo piano record interpreting the music of sometime musical ...
Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964
by John Kelman
Eagerly anticipated, Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 documents the emergence of Miles' second great quintet, featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. It demonstrates, over the course of seven discs and seven hours, how critical each member of that quintet was. As the group ...
Masada: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7
by John Kelman
Sometimes not playing together on an ongoing basis can be a good thing. While there is no question that there are clear advantages to working regularly, distance can also yield unexpected benefits. Most jazz musicians who make any kind of living at their craft work in a variety of contexts, so there is always a certain ...
Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams
by John Kelman
Following a six-year break from recording, with only a guest appearance on bassist Miroslav Vitous' Universal Syncopations ('03) and a :Rarum compilation ('02), Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek returns with his first album of new material since Rites ('98). In Praise of Dreams continues along the path established by such recordings as Legend of the Seven Dreams ...
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