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Marcin and Bartlomiej Brat Oles: Duo
by John Sharpe
Faced with any bass and drums duo, the question is always going to be: does it pass the music minus one test? It is a brave and unforgiving furrow which not too many choose to plough. Of those that do, they often stretch the parameters by using tuned percussion or additional wind instruments like William Parker ...
Michel Edelin Trio: Kuntu
by John Sharpe
Perennially unfashionable and plagued by perceptions of insufficient heft and timbral variation, it's not surprising that flute-based trios are rarer than an apologetic banker. Not that this troubles the Paris-based RogueArt label, as straight after the Indigo Trio's Anaya (2009) comes another, this time under the direction of flautist Michel Edelin. Past associations for the Frenchman ...
Flow Trio: Rejuvenation
by John Sharpe
Rejuvenation, despite its more recent vintage, fits right in with the generally held notion of the ESP label in its heyday as a home to passionate, small group, free jazz blowing sessions. While there may not be the same shock of the new, the intervening period means that the practitioners of this art have a rich ...
Evan Parker/ Paul Dunmall Quartet Live at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
Evan Parker/ Paul Dunmall Quartet The Vortex London February 26, 2009 If anything was guaranteed to banish the late winter blues, a two-tenor face-off looked to be just the ticket. Saxophone master Evan Parker's regular gig at London's Vortex Jazz Bar on the last Thursday of each month ...
Nicole Mitchell/ Indigo Trio: Anaya
by John Sharpe
The Indigo Trio's sophomore outing on the classy French Rogue Art imprint delivers the record fans of Nicole Mitchell the flutist have been waiting for. Mitchell the composer and arranger has been to the fore of late on Black Unstoppable (Delmark, 2007) and most notably Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008), but with instrumentation stripped to the ...
Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet: Furioso
by John Sharpe
Irrespective of the connections, the soprano saxophone clarion call opening Furioso immediately evokes the ghost of Steve Lacy. The debut disc from Swiss soprano saxophonist Jurg Wickihalder's Overseas quartet might be better titled Vivacissimo, such is the joy and vitality which springs out from every digital pit and pore. Though it was at Boston's ...
Frank Gratkowski: Palae, Wake and Live at the Musik Triennale Koln
by John Sharpe
Achim Kaufman/ Frank Gratkowski/ Wilbert de Joode Palae Leo Records 2007 Frank Gratkowski/ Chris Brown/ William Winant Wake Red Toucan Records 2008 James Choice Orchestra live at the musik triennale koln ...
Satoko Fujii Ma-do Quartet at the Vortex in London, England
by John Sharpe
---> Satoko Fujii Ma-do Quartet Vortex Jazz Bar London, England February 6, 2009 Japanese pianist and composer Satoko Fujii may have small hands but more than compensates with a big conception, realizing its expression through a bewildering range of vehicles. A full house at London's Vortex Jazz Bar hosted ...
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet in Amsterdam, February 13
by John Sharpe
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet Bimhuis Amsterdam, Netherlands February 12, 2009 How many larger instrumental ensembles endure for over ten years with the core of the line-up unchanged? In the economic climate of the last decade, not many. All the more remarkable, then, that the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, which ...
Arthur Doyle
by John Sharpe
Better known by repute than in person saxophonist Arthur Doyle is nonetheless a free jazz legend. Though active since the '60s he has garnered barely a footnote in the written accounts of the music's history, not helped by a diminutive discography on obscure independent labels in limited pressings. But he has persevered and his rediscovery by ...
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