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Article: Album Review

Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: Stepwise

by John Sharpe
May 19, 2010

Taylor Ho Bynum is one of the most inventive and exciting trumpeters of his generation. Well known for his association with such seminal figures as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon, he is also building a substantial body of work in his own right. Stepwise is his second duet with drummer and longtime ally Tomas ...

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Ivo Perelman & Dominic Duval: Nowhere To Hide and Mind Games

by John Sharpe
May 15, 2010

Ivo Perelman & Dominic Duval Nowhere To Hide Not Two 2009 Ivo Perelman Trio Mind Games Leo Records 2009 While Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman and bassist Dominic ...

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Curtis Clark: Taagi

by John Sharpe
May 1, 2010

Recorded live on successive nights in May, 2009 in Texas, Taagi provides a welcome bulletin on under-exposed pianist Curtis Clark. Though born in Chicago, Clark first made his mark in Los Angeles back in the 1970s under the influence of the late pianist/bandleader Horace Tapscott. Since then he has resided in Amsterdam, recording with many of ...

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Article: Live Review

Evan Parker/Paul Dunmall Quartet at the Vortex, London

by John Sharpe
April 25, 2010

Evan Parker/Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Levin The Vortex London February 25, 2010 Any opportunity to catch the UK's top tenors Evan Parker and Paul Dunmall in tandem is enough to set the pulse racing, but factor in a rare sally across the Channel by French-based bassist extraordinaire Paul Rogers and ...

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Little Women: Throat

by John Sharpe
April 22, 2010

Brooklyn-based quartet, Little Women, blasts out of the starting gate with its full length debut on the Aum Fidelity imprint, following up its 2008 EP. The best known of the group's constituent parts to jazz fans is alto saxophonist Darius Jones, whose Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing), also on Aum Fidelity, was one of ...

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Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite: 5000 Poems

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by John Sharpe
April 6, 2010

There was a time when the addition of a chordal instrument such as piano to a horn-led free jazz quartet would have been viewed as a nod to the mainstream. But not the case now and especially not when the pianist in question is John Blum and the group is trombonist Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite. ...

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Saxophone and drum duets: Cyrillic; Through The Fire; Bad Luck

by John Sharpe
April 3, 2010

Dave Rempis/Frank Rosaly Cyrillic 482 Music 2009 Famoudou Don Moye/Eliel Sherman Storey Through The Fire AECO Records 2008 Chris Icasiano/Neil Welch Bad Luck Belle Records 2009 ...

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Sabir Mateen: URDLA XXX

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by John Sharpe
March 25, 2010

It must have been some surprise when Sabir Mateen, already playing, strode into the centre of URDLA, the Parisian engraving workshop where a hundred guests were convened for a celebration of its 30th anniversary. Mateen had been commissioned as a special guest to appear on the stroke of midnight. Solo concerts are not the rite of ...

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Jemeel Moondoc: Muntu Recordings

by John Sharpe
March 18, 2010

Jemeel Moondoc Muntu Recordings NoBusiness Records 2010 Lithuanian based NoBusiness records has put together a wonderful retrospective on under celebrated saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc and his pioneering ensemble Muntu, sumptuously packaged in a three-audio disc plus booklet box set. It's a bulletin from another era, the late 1970s, a ...

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David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One)

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by John Sharpe
March 14, 2010

There is always a tinge of soul-baring in solo performance on a single line instrument like the saxophone, when stripped of the musical support customarily handled by an ensemble. David S. Ware's story only accentuates that feeling. Rushed into print as a limited edition release of 1500, Saturnian documents Ware's first public showing since his kidney ...