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Lee Konitz with the Mark Masters Ensemble: One Day With Lee
by John Kelman
At an age when most professionals are off playing golf on a Florida course, many musicians just don’t know the meaning of the word “retire." And that’s a good thing. Take eighty year-old bassist Percy Heath, who released his first album under his own name last year; and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz who, in his mid-seventies, ...
Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'eschafaud
by John Kelman
With the original soundtrack issued as side one of the 1958 Columbia LP release, Jazz Tracks , the complete session from Miles Davis' soundtrack recording to the 1958 Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud has been out of print on CD for many years. Now Universal Music France has rectified that situation, reissuing the complete session ...
Nils Landgren/Esbjorn Svensson: Swedish Folk Modern
by John Kelman
Contrary to Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch, jazz is no longer an American or, even more specifically, Afro-American art form. Jazz has, in fact, always been about incorporating music from various traditions, folk and otherwise, into something of a cultural melting pot. While American musicians including John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis looked to African ...
Brad Mehldau Trio: Anything Goes
by John Kelman
Two years after Largo , pianist Brad Mehldau returns to more familiar territory with Anything Goes , his first studio trio recording in four years. Familiar it may be--as he reconvenes his empathetic relationship with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy--but safe it is not. On a programme surprisingly devoid of original material, Mehldau still ...
Enrico Rava: Easy Living
by John Kelman
After nearly 20 years away from the label, Italian trumpet legend Enrico Rava makes a triumphant return to ECM with Easy Living , an album that proves that a relaxed, unforced approach can have its own kind of quiet intensity. Comparisons can be made to Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko who, also in his ...
Larry Carlton: Sapphire Blue
by John Kelman
Yet another artist finds himself on a new label and the experience refreshes and reinvigorates. Earlier this year it was Mike Stern and late last year it was Terence Blanchard; in the case of guitarist Larry Carlton, he has signed with one of the few remaining majors that is not afraid to let its artists have ...
Mirabassi/Boltro/Ferris: (((AIR)))
by John Kelman
When one thinks of chamber jazz, one hardly thinks of an ensemble consisting of piano, trumpet and trombone. This should not be such a foreign ide,a though, since the three instruments represent a broad range, both harmonically and texturally. And the trombone, at one time considered more of an ensemble instrument, is taking its rightful place ...
Jeff "Tain" Watts: Megawatts
by John Kelman
Megawatts has had a somewhat chequered past. Originally recorded in 1991, contractual difficulties made it necessary to release the record without Jeff “Tain" Watts’ name on the marquee. Consequently, the album never received the attention it deserved, and this is a shame because aside from being Watts’ first album as a leader, it represents one of ...
Daniel Humair: Baby Boom
by John Kelman
Trust drummer Daniel Humair, who has had more musical lives than the proverbial cat, to continue to reinvent himself by surrounding himself with a group of young players who are equally at home with both composed and free styles of music. Baby Boom unites Humair with saxophonists Matthieu Donarier and Christophe Monniot, bassist Sebastien Boisseau and ...
Marc Ducret: Qui Parle?
by John Kelman
Now in his late forties, guitarist Marc Ducret has built a career out of taking the essence of various traditions and turning them on their side. With Qui Parle? Ducret has fashioned perhaps his most ambitious and audacious effort to date, a seventy-five minute suite that is bold and almost entirely indefinable in terms of how ...
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