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Rodrigo Amado: The Abstract Truth
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, bassist Kent Kessler, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an international trio featuring players from Portugal, United States and Norway, respectively. But on its second recording, The Abstract Truth, the assemblage speaks the same language; its mother tongue being hard-hitting, concise improvisation. This disc follows the Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), the trio's ...
September 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...
Ken Vandermark: Collected Fiction (Improvised Bass & Reed Duos) & Fire Room: Broken Music
by Marc Medwin
Ken VandermarkCollected Fiction (Improvised Bass & Reed Duos)Okkadisk2008 Fire RoomBroken MusicAtavistic2008 Saxophonist Ken Vandermark has made a career of placing himself in diverse company, whether as a leader or as ...
Rodrigo Amado New Trio CD
Three years after Teatro, his first trio recording with North-American double-bass player Kent Kessler and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, widely acclaimed by international reviewers and considered by many a major chapter in Portuguese jazz history, Rodrigo Amado releases The Abstract Truth, an homage to the art of Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. A studio recording, The ...
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
There may not be a more creative group of artists anywhere within the boundaries of any art form than those within the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. These are individuals that comprehensively understand their responsibility to art and it is only through this level of integrity and creativity that art can, and will continue to move forward. ...
Bull Fiddle
By Kent Kessler
Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2003
Track listing: Monon Line/ Spillway/ Batum Schrag/ Word Edgewise/ Sugar Creek/
Furthermore/ Waddy Peytona/ That Is/ Central Wisconsin Double Wide/
Out of Iowa/ Gilman Chatsworth/ Pikeville Girl.
Illumination
by AAJ Staff
It comes as a quiet blink in the dark, a sudden wash of color, or sheer blinding intensity. The best thing is, it happens without any warning. That's the sublime power of music created in the moment, always teetering on the edge of unpredictability. Once you've make that leap enough times, you'll find yourself addicted.
Kent Kessler: Bull Fiddle
by Derek Taylor
More than any other instrument, double basses tend to show the miles logged by their owners. At the mercy of malevolent baggage handlers, trundled endlessly to and fro, these whales of the instrument world register each mishandling with legions of scratches, notches and splinters etched into their lacquered skins. Kent Kessler has certainly put some miles ...
