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Hugh Ragin: Revelation
by John Kelman
While he has recorded less frequently as a leader than some his age, trumpeter High Ragin's career as a music educator in Denver, Colorado certainly hasn't prevented him from wider exposure with a variety of artists including Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray and, oddly enough, even Maynard Ferguson. But it is with the Creative Music Studio in ...
Drummers Collective: 25th Anniversary Celebration & Bass Day 2002
by John Kelman
The Drummers Collective, arguably the leading school for jazz drumming in the world, celebrated its 25th anniversary in '02, and thankfully Paul Siegel and Rob Wallis of Hudson Music were thereto record the event, featuring a wide range of drummers and styles. Mixing it in with the annual Bass Day celebration, the scope of the event ...
Sean Rickman: Compositional Drumming
by John Kelman
Drummer Sean “The Rick" Rickman, currently on tour with the M-Base-meets-hip hop fusion of Dapp Theory, delivers Compositional Drumming , a DVD that, while mainly an instructional DVD for drummers, is a fascinating look at how drums can (and should) be an equal part of the compositional process. While the role of a drummer may be ...
Paul Bley: Nothing to Declare
by John Kelman
While pianist Paul Bley is renowned as a free player with an almost allergic aversion to music on the printed page, that doesn't mean that he doesn't have roots, or is afraid to show them. On Nothing to Declare , his fifth solo recording for the Canadian Justin Time label, his background in blues and standards ...
Buster Williams: Griot Libert
by John Kelman
The instrumental lineup may mimic the Modern Jazz Quartet and, to be sure, Buster Williams' choice of vibes as the other front-line instrument was so that he could similarly “express a certain softness in [the] music." But that's where the comparison ends. Griot Libertè may also swing on the light side like MJQ, but the musical ...
Buddy Rich At the Top
by John Kelman
Rescued from obscurity by Hudson Music, At the Top was a one-hour '73 performance of Buddy Rich and the Buddy Rich Big Band originally broadcast on Public Television in the United States. While the audio quality is a touch muddy, symptomatic of the recording capabilities for television at the time, it serves as an outstanding document ...
Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Volume One
by John Kelman
Pianist Jessica Williams may not be as well known, say, as Mulgrew Miller or Kenny Barron, but she's a powerful and talented pianist more than a little influenced by Thelonious Monk. Still, with an immediately recognizable playing style all her own, Williams clearly belongs in the upper ranks of mainstream pianists, and her latest disc, Live ...
Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod
by John Kelman
Elegantly bridging the gap between free playing and more structured work, tenor saxophonist/pianist Jessica Jones and her quartet deliver a record that bucks convention while, remarkably, remaining somewhat true to it. Influenced as much by the Art Ensemble of Chicago as by Wayne Shorter and Jackie McLean, Nod comfortably traverses a variety of territories, including open-ended ...
Charlie Hunter: Right Now Live! & Friends Seen and Unseen
by John Kelman
The last twelve months have been exciting ones for fans of 8-string guitarist Charlie Hunter. There has been the release of his cooperative band Garage a Trois' Emphasizer ; a duo record with Bobby Previte, Come In Red Dog This Is Tango Leader ; and a live recording from his mid-'90s collective TJ Kirk, Talking Only ...
ETHEL: Ethel
by John Kelman
While it is an unavoidable fact that the Kronos Quartet has set the standard for contemporary string quartets interpreting an almost exclusively contemporary repertoire, the fact of the matter is that they come from a classical background, and no matter how far they attempt to stray from it, they can't escape it. Their attempts to interpret ...
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