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Ned Rothenberg / Catherine Jauniaux / Barre Phillips: While You Were Out
by Kurt Gottschalk
Belgian vocalist Catherine Jauniaux is one the most underappreciated of a generation of free improv vocalists. Less a storyteller than Shelley Hirsch, more overtly musical than Phil Minton or Jaap Blonk, she falls somewhere between their spontaneous explorations and the avant art songs of Joan La Barbara. She has released only a handful of records with ...
Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...
Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift
by Kurt Gottschalk
Larry Ochs, best known for his work with the long-standing ROVA saxophone quartet, has been working an unusual and satisfying side project for close to a decade. His Drumming Core, founded in 2000, is a trio with two drummers dedicated to exploring American field hollers and Asian chants. The first two CDs were rewarding, if more ...
Solo Saxophones: Roscoe Mitchell, Paul Flaherty & John Butcher
by Kurt Gottschalk
Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa 2008 Paul Flaherty Aria Nativa Family Vineyard 2009 John Butcher Resonant Spaces Confront 2008 The solo horn concert ...
Large Ensembles: John Hollenbeck & Nicholas Urie
by Kurt Gottschalk
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Eternal Interlude Sunnyside Records 2009 Nicholas Urie Large Ensemble Excerpts From an Online Dating Service Red Piano 2009 In 1965, Duke Ellington asked the question (by ...
Incus Records
by Kurt Gottschalk
Record labels are, in essence, an outlet, a means for production. They are not the paint or the painter but merely the paint factory. They aren't the music, just the medium of delivery. But the good ones are more than that. They engender emotional attachment. They come to represent their times. The orange and ...
Wu Fei: Yuan
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer Wu Fei , as evidenced by the five compositions on Yuan, occupies a world that straddles traditional Chinese music and more contemporary styles of writing and playing. Fei seems to be particularly interested in strings and percussion, as well as in percussive strings and melodic percussion. The instrumentation ranges from solo percussion ...
Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium 2009
by Kurt Gottschalk
Guelph Jazz Festival & ColloquiumGuelph, OntarioSeptember 9-13, 2009The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium devoted itself this year to trying to unpack an idea so common that it is at once crucial and cliché: whether the practice of music-making might have world-changing implications. Through presentations on (for example) gang intervention in South Africa through ...
Gerry Hemingway Twofer: Less is More & Demon Chaser
by Kurt Gottschalk
WHO Trio Less is More Clean Feed 2009 Gerry Hemingway Quintet Demon Chaser hatOLOGY 2009 Much seems to have gone down in the decade since Michel Wintsch, Gerry Hemingway and ...
Joey Baron: Secrets, I Believe & Live at the Vortex
by Kurt Gottschalk
Mark Feldman / Uri Caine / Greg Cohen / Joey Baron Secrets Tzadik 2009 Daniel Zamir I Believe Tzadik 2008 Julian Siegel Trio Live at the Vortex Basho ...
