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World Saxophone Quartet: Experience
by Kurt Gottschalk
With its glory days more than arguably behind it, the WSQ has become something of a powerhouse repertory band. Beginning in 1977, the four saxophonists (then Hamiet Bluiett, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, and David Murray) released seven remarkable albums in eight years before finding a second calling as an interpreting ensemble with 1986's brilliant Plays Duke ...
Joe McPhee: The Sugar Hill Suite & Rules of Engagement, Vol. 2
by Kurt Gottschalk
Trio-X is one of the longest-standing and strongest vehicles for one of the best free-thinking saxophonists around today. Joe McPhee has countless associations, but consistently is at his most relaxed and exploratory with bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jay Rosen. With only five releases in the decade they've played together, the group has afforded itself the ...
Gerry Hemingway: Following His Muse
by Kurt Gottschalk
Without naming names, it seems safe to say that its the rare drummer who can step up as a bandleader or composer, who can move out of the realm of percussion and work with a variety of instrumental voices. Looked at from another angle, it could be worthwhile to name names of drummers who go beyond ...
Henry Threadgill Makes A Move
by Kurt Gottschalk
Henry Threadgill isn't hesitant to state his place in music. He has, he said quite plainly, “changed music both horizontally and vertically." His work isn't “strident," he said. “It doesn't strike you. You might think you know what's going on, but try to analyze it." And he states it, perhaps, ...
HatHut Records: Expanding Scope and Vision
by Kurt Gottschalk
Over three decades and 300 releases, HatHut has been on top of not just the changing styles in improvised music--what the label has termed “music of the future"--but innovative ways to market the fluctuating form. From the red-box LP covers to the orange-spined CD sleeves and under the rubrics hatMUSICS, hatART, hatOLOGY, hat[now]ART and hatNOIR, Hat ...
David Murray: Circles Live in Cracow & We Is
by Kurt Gottschalk
In the years since his exile to Paris, David Murray has positioned himself as a champion of jazz history and music of the African diaspora, a sort of Wynton Marsalis of the avant-garde. His projects - from arranging John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to working with musicians from Cuba and Guadaloupe - have been professional and ...
Makanda Ken McIntyre: In The Wind: The Woodwind Quartets
by Kurt Gottschalk
In his final years, multi-reedist Makanda Ken McIntyre was fond of saying in concert that a piece was off his last album, which came out more than twenty years prior. He would laugh, but the joke pointed out how criminally underdocumented he was during his life. In June 2001, that industry oversight was finally corrected with ...
John Zorn: Birthday Celebration Vol. 8 & Vol. 9
by Kurt Gottschalk
John Zorn Birthday Celebration Vol. 8 Tzadik Among accomplishments John Zorn has achieved with his label Tzadik is the championing of others in the improv world and perhaps the figure he's held up the most is trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. With six releases of new material and a four-disc set of reissues, ...
Myra Melford
by Kurt Gottschalk
Tracing Myra Melford's influences is a bit like playing connect-the-dots on a map. She grew up outside of Chicago, but only came to work with that city's jazz pioneers in New York, years after seeing an Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians [AACM] concert while she was a student at Evergreen State College in Washington ...
Tzadik's 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. 2 & 7
by Kurt Gottschalk
The avant-savvy marketing of Tzadik came to a head with the 10th anniversary of Masada coming on the 50th birthday of the band's leader (the band premiered as the Thieves Quartet during John Zorn's 40th birthday monthlong love-in at the old Knitting Factory). Special series of CDs have marked each anniversary, all coming to a head ...
