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Cuneiform Records: Growing Progressive Music for 27 Years
by Mark Redlefsen
Twenty seven years is a long time for a niche progressive music label such as Cuneiform Records not just to survive, but to remain inventive and, in the best sense, ambitious. Steve Feigenbaum founded Cuneiform back in 1984, and with his wife, Joyce, runs it from Silver Springs, Maryland. Hosting bands such as Universe Zero, digging ...
MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation
by Mark Redlefsen
On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, “Moon In June," ...
Keith Tippett Octet: From Granite To Wind
by Roger Farbey
Rarely does an album receive the plaudit of being considered essential, but for Keith Tippett fans and non-fans alike, From Granite To Wind is such a recording. The pianist departed from the more rock-influenced aspects of his writing, on albums like Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (Vertigo, 1971) and the Centipede big band extravaganza ...
Keith & Julie Tippett Couple in Spirit: Live at the Purcell Room
by AAJ Italy Staff
Julie e Keith Tippett sono una vera “Couple in Spirit" come ci ricorda la copertina di questo bel CD della Ogun. Stanno assieme nella vita e nell'arte dalla fine degli anni sessanta, quando lei, vera icona del primo rock inglese col nome da signorina Julie Driscoll, se lo trovò in studio di registrazione come arrangiatore. Dopo ...
Howard Riley: The Complete Short Stories 1998-2010
by John Sharpe
Howard RileyThe Complete Short Stories 1998-2010No Business Records2011 Veteran British pianist Howard Riley has found a champion from an unexpected source in the adventurous Lithuanian label, No Business. After issuing a double CD of the pianist's one man concert in the capital, Live In Vilnius (2010), it ...
Liudas Mockunas / Ryoji Hojito: Vacation Music
by John Sharpe
Not as, might be suggested by the title, songs to put you in the holiday mood, but seven improvisations recorded by Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas and Japanese pianist Ryoji Hojito, while the latter was on vacation in Lithuania. The pair met during the course of Hojito's travels around the country and, without thinking too much, went ...
"A loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor"
Label: Ogun Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01.-04. "A loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor" - Part 1 - 28:20; Part 2 - 20:53; part 3 - 14:41;
Part 4 - 1:14; 05. Dedicated to Mingus - 11:52.
Dreamtime: Double Trouble
by Nic Jones
Reel Recordings has excelled in the business of audio restoration, as this 2CD/DVD set goes to show. On one level, Dreamtime is no more than a footnote in British jazz, but not only did the band feature some potent soloists, it was one of the few to bridge the divide between composed and free music with ...
Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour
by John Sharpe
Aki Takase, John Edwards, Tony Levin / Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony LevinThe VortexLondonOctober 11, 2010 When pianist Keith Tippett's young daughter was asked at school what her parents did, she replied: they're mujicians! That conflation of magic and music neatly sums up Tippett's method. Initially the name was ...
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)
by John Kelman
Considered a poor cousin to In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969), 1970's In the Wake of Poseidon may possess superficial similarities to its groundbreaking predecessor, but as a 2005 All About Jazz review of an earlier edition suggested, ..."Poseidon also hints of changes in the wind." Part of the second round of ...
