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Steve Smith and Vital Information: Come On In
by John Kelman
The benefit of a long-standing musical relationship is impossible to quantify, but needless to say there is a certain comfort level, a certain simpatico that results from playing together for the long term. Drummer Steve Smith's current incarnation of Vital Information, featuring guitarist Frank Gambale, keyboardist Tom Coster and bassist Baron Browne, has been together for ...
Ian Tamblyn: Angel's Share
by John Kelman
Ian Tamblyn may well be the best Canadian singer/songwriter you've never heard. Over a career that spans thirty years and twenty-five records for his independent North Track label, Tamblyn has proven himself to be more difficult to pigeon-hole than some might like. But from pure folk records including '81s remarkable When Will I See You Again ...
Floss: Unwaxed
by John Kelman
For an artist who never achieved the widespread acclaim of, say, John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman, saxophonist Albert Ayler has had a surprisingly long-lasting effect on modern free jazz. Coming up as he did not through the bebop ranks, but from R&B, also lends credibility to more contemporary free artists coming to the genre through other ...
Alex Milella: Light Shades
by John Kelman
One often has to wonder at an artist's musical choices, where they might have gone had they taken a different path. Fusion guitarist Scott Henderson, following his landmark record, Tribal Tech , turned his back on more complex composition, going instead for a more improvised concept where tunes evolved out of lengthy jams. Likewise, guitarist Allan ...
Diane Delin/Dennis Luxion: Duality
by John Kelman
The violin is one of those overlooked instruments in jazz, rarely heard but often memorable. From the early swing of Stephane Grappelli to the Coltrane-informed work of the late Zbigniew Seifert, from the more contemporary fusion of Jean-Luc Ponty to the stylistic breadth of Mark Feldman, the violin clearly works in an improvising context, yet it's ...
Skull Session: Rise Above
by John Kelman
Do punk and free jazz cross paths? There are some who would argue unquestionably yes. Guitarist Nels Cline, for example, often combines a raw unschooled edge and sense of reckless abandon with a far more developed harmonic sensibility. So, too, does guitarist Jeff Platz, whose background in the late '70s in Cleveland, Ohio was with a ...
Joe McPhee & J: Manhattan Tango
by John Kelman
Most free music can be daunting to the uninitiated. Free music where the instruments involved are incapable of chordal harmonies can be even more challenging. Freed of the reference points (or, as some free players would call them, constraints) of rhythm section instruments and more overtly harmonic definers, the result can often come across as dissonant, ...
Thoth Trio: Apropos of Nothing
by John Kelman
The name Thoth Trio comes from two sources: one, the names of the musicians (drummer David Throckmorton, reed player Ben Opie and bassist Paul Thompson); the other, the name of an Egyptian deity who was a patron of the arts, education and honesty. Apropos of Nothing is the first release by this Pittsburgh-based trio, which the ...
Cennet J: Jazzman
by John Kelman
The pervasiveness of the internet for marginalized genres like jazz is a double-edged sword. Good, because a multitude of artists from smaller countries, who would not normally find their way into the ears of listeners abroad, can gain broader exposure. Bad, because that same multitude of artists exist in a far larger playing field where their ...
Daniel Studer: Ianus
by John Kelman
Based around his experiences performing archaeological research, where he was taken by the faint sounds of the city amidst the more sonically-static environment of his work at Domus Tiberiana in the Palatin, an oasis-like location in the centre of Rome, Swiss bassist/composer Daniel Studer developed Ianus , a series of avant-garde pieces that combine new music ...
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