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Ken Vandermark - Barry Guy - Mark Sanders: Fox Fire
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra le caratteristiche che rendono il sassofonista e clarinettista Ken Vandermark un musicista unico nel panorama jazz/impro di oggi, c'è sicuramente la sua capacità - frutto di umiltà e intelligenza - di frequentare gli ambiti più differenti con un'attitudine dialettica mobile, in grado di innestare a più livelli felicissimi cortocircuiti espressivi con le tradizioni della pratica ...
Umbrella Music Festival 2009
by A. Henkin
Umbrella Music FestivalChicago, ILNovember 5-8, 2009 If jazz is to survive in a modern world without the support of major labels or corporate funding, it will be through the efforts of organizations like Umbrella Music, “a group of Chicago-based musicians and presenters working together to provide concert opportunities for creative and improvising musicians." ...
Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues
by Eyal Hareuveni
Sometimes you don't need more than a sax and a drum set. Tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon--winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition and a potent and articulate front man of the post-modern be-bop quartet Mostly Others Do The Killing--and versatile drummer Mike Pride--a collaborator of Anthony Braxton and punk outfits such as Millions of Dead ...
The Flying Luttenbachers, Seabrook Power Plant, Zevious, Many Arms: We're No Punks
by Mark Corroto
The greatest holiday film ever made was not Jimmy Stewart's It's A Wonderful Life, from 1946, but the 1955 black comedy We're No Angels. Its three stars--Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray--play escaped convicts from Devil's Island who hide out in the home of a naive family running a local haberdashery. The trio set out ...
Got Bass Clarinet? Jason Stein Does
by Mark Corroto
In the short history of jazz--only about 110 years--the bass clarinet has had an even shorter existence. Students of Charles Darwin's evolutionary studies might point towards the adaption of the instrument into the new jazz of the 1960s; or perhaps the branch of evolution studies called biogeography might explain that fertile locations spawn growth in the ...
trioVD: Fill It Up With Ghosts
by Chris May
While Oliver Weindling's Babel label has recorded some of Britain's most lyrical and mellifluous artists, including vocalist Christine Tobin, guitarist Phil Robson and the post-bop mutationist band Polar Bear, it has also, true to its name, championed some of the country's most iconoclastic noise-jazz outfits, notably Acoustic Ladyland and Led Bib. Leeds-based trioVD, though ...
Vandermark 5: Annular Gift
by Troy Collins
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Ken Vandermark has led his flagship ensemble, the Vandermark 5, through a decade's worth of personnel changes. Despite the band's rotating roster, the ensemble's sound has remained remarkably consistent. A powerhouse unit capable of serene delicacy as well as unfettered intensity, the quintet has won a legion of fans the world over ...
Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago
by John Kelman
Mats Gustafsson and the word “accessible" are rarely found in the same sentence. For over two decades, this Swedish reed player has been mining the extreme end of free improvisation and cued composition with like-minded players including Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, and The Thing, his ongoing collective with bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. ...
Clean Feed Records: Eat the Plate
by Mark Corroto
Clean Feed records, founded in 2001, has been the most prolific and adventurous label for jazz this new century. Based in Lisbon, Portugal their offerings have included many of jazz's old guard including reed players Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters Dennis Gonzalez and Herb Robertson, along with current ...
Josh Berman: Old Idea
by Jerry D'Souza
Cornetist Josh Berman is no stranger to the improvised music scene. He not only leads his own bands--Josh Berman's Old Idea and Josh Berman and His Gang--he has played with some major improvisers including Bill Dixon, Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars. Berman goes beyond performance in his involvement as co- founder of the Umbrella Music Group ...
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