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Gutbucket: Dry Humping the American Dream
by John Kelman
With a name like Gutbucket and an album title like Dry Humping the American Dream , one might expect a certain amount of irreverence--and one would be right. Gutbucket is nothing if not counter-culture, but for all their anarchist leanings they are actually a group of talented players who have chosen to combine rapidly-changing movement form ...
Joe Locke: On the Ascension, Part 1-2
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 While vibraphonist Joe Locke has been on the scene for over twenty years, it is only in the past half decade or so that his name has begun to reach a broader audience. This is in no small part due to his participation in two seminal groups: British reed ...
Allison Miller: 5 am Stroll
by John Kelman
From the first notes of drummer Allison Miller’s début disc, 5 am stroll , you know that the recent passing of Elvin Jones had to hit her hard. She comes from the same place as Jones, with a big sound and style that, at times, is something akin to a barely-contained storm. Still only in her ...
Orquestra Popular de Camara: Orquestra Popular de Camara
by John Kelman
The interpretation of Brazilian music is something that has been covered in virtually every context, from intimate solo and duet settings to full-out orchestral works. The key aspect of whatever setting is used is whether it maintains its authenticity. While traditional jazz groupings can cover the material, moulding it to a more North American rendering, the ...
Jing Chi: 3D
by John Kelman
Following a 2003 release, Live at Yoshi’s , which leaned a little more towards the jazz side of the jazz-rock fence, Jing Chi returns with 3D , a pounding affair that places itself more firmly in the rock camp, influenced strongly by power groups from the late ‘60s and ‘70s including Cream, Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies, ...
Bobby Watson and Horizon: Horizon Reassembled
by John Kelman
Bobby Watson is not a new name to the scene. With a résumé that includes tenure with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the early ‘80s, as well as various ensembles led by Wynton Marsalis, his robust alto sound has been well represented on over a hundred albums as a guest and nearly twenty-five recordings as a ...
The Corey Christiansen Quartet: Awakening
by John Kelman
Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Take guitarist Corey Christiansen, whose début record on the nascent Mel Bay Guitar Sessions label, Awakening , is filled with spirited playing and an engaging mix of original and standard compositions. Christiansen is the senior music editor and guitar clinician for Mel Bay publications, a leading ...
Eivind Aarset: Connected
by John Kelman
Some instrumentalists are concerned with the technical nature of their instrument, absorbing harmony, scales, chord relationships and other methods to shape their desired goal. Others become enamoured with the sonic possibilities of the instrument, investigating the colours and textures that can be created. For Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset it is all important. His chops-less approach to ...
Kenny Barron Quintet: Images
by John Kelman
Pianist Kenny Barron is usually thought of more as an accompanist than a leader, and that’s odd; with around forty albums to his name over the past thirty years, he’s had no shortage of opportunity for direct exposure. But with over three hundred recordings as a guest, including work with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard ...
Manuel Valera: Forma Nueva
by John Kelman
In the liner notes to Manuel Valera’s debut group recording, Forma Nueva , writer Howard Mandel states that “Valera is no iconoclastic revolutionary, rather an innovative developmentalist.” And, true enough, Valera doesn’t break any rules, but he does bend them, finding new ways to incorporate his Cuban roots in ways that are clear but never overstated ...
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