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Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues
by Troy Collins
The saxophone and drum duo has long been an established jazz tradition, with Interstellar Space (Impulse!, 1965), John Coltrane's legendary duet album with Rashied Ali, widely considered the format's archetype. Containing a single 47-and-a-half minute improvisation, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues is tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon and drummer Mike Pride's bold contribution to the ...
Marc Ribot: El General & Italian Doc Remix
by Stuart Broomer
John Zorn El General Tzadik 2009 Marco Cappelli Italian Doc Remix Itinera 2008 Marc Ribot has an unusual combination of talents: a strong musical personality and an ...
John Zorn: Filmworks XXIII: El General
by Warren Allen
"Los Cristeros," the opening track of John Zorn's twenty-third Filmworks volume, starts gently enough, building from a bass and marimba groove. Then Marc Ribot's electric guitar enters. Brash and distorted, with the cocksure step of a gunslinger, and the frayed edge of a fedora, Ribot's solo keens with the energy and inspiration of the best. Continuing ...
Ellery Eskelin/ Sylvie Courvoisier: Every So Often
by Mark Corroto
The improvisational intersection of American and European music exemplified in the recording Every So Often finds common ground without much trouble when the improvisers are Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisier. This hour of sonically stellar studio recordings never lacks for innovation nor repeats ideas. Saxophonist Eskelin, a jazz maverick is probably best known for ...
Burton Greene and Perry Robinson at the Zeitgeist Gallery, Boston, MA
by Lyn Horton
Burton Greene and Perry Robinson Outpost 128 / Zeitgeist Gallery Boston, Massachusetts April 11, 2009 Pianist Burton Greene and clarinetist Perry Robinson have known each other for two generations' worth of years. They first played together at Greene's loft in New York in 1965 in a trio, which included Joel ...
Mark Feldman / Uri Caine / Greg Cohen / Joey Baron: Secrets
by Warren Allen
Mark Feldman, Uri Caine, Greg Cohen and Joey Baron have all played integral parts in John Zorn's many explorations of Jewish improvised music. All four have won acclaim for the distinctness and flexibility of their sounds, but here they work in a setting that defines the meaning of traditional. With a group such as this, it ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere
by Eric Benson
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...
Barney McAll: Dynamic Pianist And Composer
by AAJ Staff
Composer and pianist Barney McAll is a leading light of the new Brooklyn--the New York borough that is the fount of much that is new in jazz. The spectrum of McAll's music is wide, ranging from mood-setting jazz ensemble recordings to electronica. But it all comes down to the notes, and their relation to each other. ...
Klez-Edge: Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters
by Elliott Simon
John Zorn once remarked to that in the '60s, “we didn't want to hear Jewish music at our Bar Mitzvahs, we wanted to hear Hendrix." Funny how a few decades and some intermarriage with post-bop jazz can change all that. However, if back then some very hip parents convinced the best free jazzers to do a ...
Borah Bergman Trio: Luminescence
by Nic Jones
The piano-bass-drums trio has become such a staple of jazz recording that it must be difficult for any trio to come up with something fresh. Borah Bergman and his crew accomplish this task, and whilst their work lacks the compositional integrity of the holy trinity of Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, and Andrew Hill, there's enough substance ...
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