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Junk Box: Fragment
by Kurt Gottschalk
It must be a daunting job to be the third wheel in a trio with the likes of Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura. The husband-wife piano and trumpet duo are remarkably active. Both are inventive composers leading numerous bands with diverse approaches and each is often in the other's groups. They've got a commonality it would ...
Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness
by Kurt Gottschalk
There's a reason that Masada has been around for some thirteen-and-a-half years (officially coming to--or at least nearing--an end with two concerts this month at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center), one that Zorn has offered more than once: the band is just so much fun. Whether or not he likes the term, the quartet with ...
Michael Dorf: 20th Anniversary of The Old Knit
by Kurt Gottschalk
By his own account, Michael Dorf is living the dream. Despite a tough ten years -personally and professionally -the founder of the Knitting Factory has been crafting an unusual role as a philanthropic arts entrepreneur and couldn't be happier with where a tumultuous decade has landed him. After building the ...
Tin Hat: The Sad Machinery of Spring
by Kurt Gottschalk
The fact that Tin Hat is no longer a trio and that founding member Rob Burger left the group in 2004 shouldn't be such a jolt. The band has always expanded and shape-shifted, working with such guests as Tom Waits and Willie Nelson on previous records. But for their fifth release, they've formally dropped the “trio ...
Solponticello: Jeremiah Cymerman & Killick Erik Hinds
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jeremiah Cymerman Big Exploitation Solponticello 2007 Killick Erik Hinds/Dennis Palmer/Bob Stagner A.S.A.P. Wings Solponticello 2007 The world of conducted improvisation is still small enough that it's a ...
David Krakauer: Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer/klezmer and classical clarinetist David Krakauer has accrued a nice string of releases over the last five years, working with the under-distributed French Label Bleu imprint. 2001's A Hot One went toward the jazzy end of klez and The Twelve Tribes, from the following year, punched it up with a bit of a rock edge. But ...
Henry Kaiser / Charles K. Noyes / Song Won Park: Invite the Spirit 2006
by Kurt Gottschalk
What was remarkable about the first Invite the Spirit record by the trio of guitarist Henry Kaiser, percussionist Charles K. Noyes and San Won Park (who plays the Korean kayagum, a twelve-stringed zither-like instrument) was how neatly they subsumed Asian traditions with the Western avant-garde. On the trio's second record, they more or less do the ...
Odyssey the Band: Back in Time
by Kurt Gottschalk
The significance of James “Blood Ulmer's Odyssey trio is a bit of backhanded praise. It's a good band for sure, but its value is enhanced by the fact that Ulmer has rarely had standing bands worthy of his potential. He should have had stronger projects and more great records, considering what a great guitarist he is. ...
Solo Guitars: Derek Bailey & Bern Nix
by Kurt Gottschalk
Derek Bailey To Play: The Blemish Sessions Samadhisound 2006 Bern Nix Low Barometer Tompkins Square 2007 It's for good reason that the guitar has become so ubiquitous ...
Michael Bisio & Tomas Ulrich: Pulling Strings
by Kurt Gottschalk
Of all the string lineups, the bass and cello don't often get to hang together. The generally underutilized cello is often called in place of the bigger bass, or sometimes (as in Ron Carter's case) is used as a second instrument. The bass is generally not invited to string quartet parties, and it's generally paired with ...
