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Take Five With T. Howard Curtis III
by AAJ Staff
Meet Howard Curtis: T. Howard Curtis III, born in Williamburg, VA, but now living and working in Graz, Austria has been enjoying a multifaceted career as jazz drummer, percussionist and educator for over 30 years. He has performed in jazz and other music festivals all over the world, including Paris, Germany, ...
Julius Hemphill - Peter Kowald: Live at Kassiopeia
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se si eccettua il breve episodio berlinese [registrato nel 1990] inserito in Duos 2: Europa-America-Japan, queste registrazioni finora inedite registrate al Kassiopeia di Wuppertal nel 1987 rappresentano una rara e preziosa occasione per ascoltare insieme due dei più originali e straordinarie personalità della musica improvvisata degli ultimi quarant'anni, purtroppo entrambe prematuramente scomparse. Si potrebbe sostenere, non ...
Julius Hemphill: Dogon A.D.
by Troy Collins
Dogon A.D. has long been revered as a classic among jazz connoisseurs; Julius Hemphill's relatively obscure but highly influential debut is widely considered the missing link between the avant-garde and populist forms such as blues, funk and soul. The 1972 recording session for this historic masterpiece originally produced four unique compositions, but Hemphill only issued three ...
James Carter Organ Trio: At The Crossroads
by C. Michael Bailey
James Carter Organ Trio At the Crossroads Emarcy Records 2011 Jazz has many faces. Some are searching and expansive, like those of alto saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, seeking the outer edges of the music. Some are reverent and deferential, like the Modern Jazz Quartet and ...
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D. (Arista/Freedom 1972, 1977; International Phonograph, 2011)
The Dogon tribe of Mali made an amazing discovery: they somehow knew without the aid of a telescope that the Dog Star Sirius had a small companion star, invisible to the human eye, a fact that wasn't verified by astronomers until the 1970's. Much like that mystery is this extraordinary album by saxophonist and composer Julius ...
James Carter Organ Trio: At The Crossroads
by Troy Collins
A ubiquitous presence in the mid-1990s, saxophonist James Carter faded from the limelight when Atlantic Records disbanded its jazz department in 2000. Undeterred, Carter forged ahead, eventually signing with EmArcy Records in 2008, turning misfortune into opportunity. In addition to releasing Carter's engaging Present Tense the same year, the label also issued his long-awaited premiere of ...
James Carter Organ Trio: At The Crossroads
by Mark F. Turner
No one brings more swagger and flavor with their playing than multi-reedman James Carter. A zealous nod to the blues, gospel, and jazz, he looks back to the music's rich history and presses onward in At the Crossroads with his organ trio including organist Gerard Gibbs and drummer Leonard King Jr., who have performed together for ...
STLJN Audio Archive: Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
This week's Audio Archive spotlights a recording that's generally acknowledged by jazz musicians, fans, critics and scholars as being of major significance, yet somehow has remained mostly out of print for more than 30 years. Saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill recorded Dogon A.D. in February, 1972 at Oliver Sain's Archway Studios on Natural Bridge Rd in ...
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: London, UK, April 5, 2011
by John Sharpe
Alexander Hawkins EnsembleCafé OtoLondon, UKApril 5, 2011 What do you do when two mainstays in your band leave? Tonight's gig was the first outing for the new line up of pianist Alexander Hawkins' group, necessitated by the loss of regular bassist Dominic Lash to New York City for ...
Bill Frisell: The ECM Years
by John Kelman
Nothing trumps right place, right time. Sure, most artists pay plenty of dues-- sometimes in the public eye, oftentimes not--but for some, there's that serendipitous event that leads to greater visibility. Bill Frisell, surely one of the most important and influential guitarists of his generation, undoubtedly deserves all the accolades and artistic freedom he's achieved in ...
