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Jim Black/Alasnoaxis: Habyor
by John Kelman
Drummer Jim Black reconvenes his Alasnoaxis band for its third outing on the Winter & Winter label, this time delving even further into song form than on the first two releases. More than a little influenced by alt rock bands, there are still tastes of progressive and art rock in the mix, but the emphasis is ...
The Blueprint Project: The Blueprint Project
by John Kelman
The saxophone-piano-guitar trio of Jared Sims, Tyson Rogers and Eric Hofbauer first came together in '97, when the three met while studying at the New England Conservatory. From early on they discovered a similar penchant for lyricism coupled with a more adventurous, left-of-centre style that garnered some encouragement from Paul Bley and a performance at the ...
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Frenesi
by John Kelman
When classical performers tackle material from the jazz world, the result can often be something less than one would hope for. The more stringent and what some might call restricted range of interpretation leave little room for overt improvisation. Instead it's all about subtlety, dynamics and delicate phrasing. Consequently, all too often, when a classical player ...
Paradigm Shift: Shifting Times
by John Kelman
A paradigm shift implies a move into a new framework, and so the organ trio Paradigm Shift is probably misnamed, as there is nothing particularly evolutionary about what it does. Shifting Times is, however, a captivating session of mainly original compositions that owes a great deal to the Blue Note soul jazz of the late '60s. ...
Ralph Reichert Quartet with Randy Sandke: Reflections
by John Kelman
Mainstream albums that continue to interpret and reinterpret the Great American Songbook have to be assessed with a different set of criteria than more overtly contemporary forms of the idiom. They rarely break any new ground, and the players, while often highly capable, or not necessarily what one would call adventurous. Still, there's a lot to ...
James Silberstein: Song For Micaela
by John Kelman
By all accounts guitarist James Silberstein has been a busy working musician on the Georgia, Miami and New York scenes for 25 years, but has operated mainly beneath the radar, only now releasing his debut CD, Song For Micaela, which finds him mining the juncture between post bop modernists like Pat Martino and more staid traditionalists ...
Fripp & Eno: The Equatorial Stars
by John Kelman
While the technology was, in retrospect, remarkably simple, guitarist Robert Fripp, best known for his work with the perennial King Crimson, and synthesist/producer Brian Eno literally invented a new musical form when they hooked up two Revox reel-to-reel tape recorders in '73, allowing Fripp to layer an almost infinite number of loops to create a groundbreaking ...
Big Satan: Souls Saved Hear
by John Kelman
In a configuration pared down from his Science Friction band, saxophonist Tim Berne reconvenes with guitarist Marc Ducret and drummer Tom Rainey as Big Satan, the trio that recorded '97's outstanding I Think They Liked It Honey (Winter & Winter). While it seemed that the core of Science Friction, when they played recently in Victoriaville, Canada ...
Bill O'Connell: Latin Jazz Fantasy
by John Kelman
Bill O'Connell has been a busy pianist/arranger, mainly in the Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz arenas, for over thirty years, having worked with artists including Dave Valentin, Mongo Santamaria, Jerry Gonzalez and Gato Barbieri. He may not be a household name, but with a large book of songs that have been widely recorded, he deserves to be. ...
Nancy Walker: When She Dreams
by John Kelman
The dividends paid by working with the same core group of musicians can be significant. Canadian pianist Nancy Walker has been working with bassist Kieran Overs and drummer Barry Romberg since her '97 début, Invitation , and has continued to do so for her subsequent releases, '00's Luminosity and '02's Levitation. For her latest release, When ...
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