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James Ilgenfritz: Trio Caveat / Sound Infusion
by Kurt Gottschalk
Bassist James Ilgenfritz, it would seem, has been doing everything right in New York. He's been playing a lot, recording and organizing concert series at the downtown Elixir Smart Bar and The Tank in midtown. In a few years, the young player has built something of a community around him, which is what musicians in New ...
Peter Br: FMP 130
by Kurt Gottschalk
22 years hence, these European masters have pretty well cemented themselves in their own corners of the free improv universe: the fury, sometimes restrained, of Peter Brötzmann; the madness of Han Bennink; and the elegant wandering of Fred van Hove. But when they got together in Bremen on February 25, 1973, it was with a sense ...
ROVA Orkestrova: Electric Ascension
by Kurt Gottschalk
Electing to interpret for the second time John Coltrane's seminal free jazz blowout Ascension was an odd move for West Coast sax quartet Rova to make on the band's 25th anniversary in 2003. Their motives aside, what it amounted to was restaging one of the band's least interesting records--based on a morass as individual as a ...
Meshell Ndegeocello: The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel
by Kurt Gottschalk
Making jazz records is easy. Anyone with half a name and the slightest interest (read: Lea DeLaria and Queen Latifah) can hire a bassist and book a session. You don't really need any ideas, just a wisp of a voice and a desire to be “moody. Fortunately Meshell Ndegeocello is smarter than that. She's ...
Fred Anderson: Blue Winter
by Kurt Gottschalk
If it wasn't one already, Fred Anderson's trio with Hamid Drake and William Parker can rightly be considered a supergroup. Anderson was named the first Vision Festival Lifetime Recognition honoree last month, and if such awards were given, Drake and Parker would surely have shared the MVP trophy. While the three have worked together before--notably in ...
Lisbon's Jazz em Agosto
by Kurt Gottschalk
Over the course of nine hot August days in Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation managed to present major figures in European free improvisation (Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Paul Rutherford, Conrad Bauer, Irene Schweizer, Pierre Favre), American master instrumentalists (Mark Dresser, Gary Lucas, Erik Friedlander), some of the smartest piano preparers in ...
David Rothenberg: Why Birds Sing & Evan Parker With Birds
by Kurt Gottschalk
David Rothenberg Why Birds Sing Terra Nova 2005 What higher compliment could be paid a singer than to say she (Sarah Vaughan, perhaps) sings like a bird. And certainly any saxophonist would be proud to be compared to Bird. The birds set the standard, perhaps outclass human musicians, which might ...
Eugene Chadbourne: The Hills Have Jazz
by Kurt Gottschalk
Since starting his homegrown label a few years back, Eugene Chadbourne has had no end of opportunities to digitize his whims and send them to market. Among the many projects on his Chadula label has been a series (eight at present) of “horror CDs that run the gamut from arrangements of horror movie themes to unnerving ...
Satoki Fujii and Natsuki Tamura
by Kurt Gottschalk
Satoko Fujii - along with William Parker and Barry Guy - is one of the few pushing the big band into the future and for her part four times over with standing orchestras in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and New York. In addition, she works in duo with Tatsuya Yoshida, Paul Bley and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki ...
John Butcher: Cavern with Nightlife, New Oakland Burr & 13 Friendly Numbers
by Kurt Gottschalk
British saxophonist John Butcher has become one of the preeminent voices in the world of veryquiet improv, having been a member of the supergroup Polwechsel and working with such artists as Rhodri Davies, Axel Dorner and Phil Minton. At the same time, he's pushed his horn into the role of feedback machine, close-miking it and turning ...
