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Bertrand Denzler Cluster: Y?
by Glenn Astarita
Among the crop of new releases from the audacious and very much avant-garde Leo Lab records is something by a band, which calls itself “Bertrand Denzler Cluster”. Y? was recorded live on 2 tracks by Radio DRS at Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, Switzerland, May 4, 1998. Tenor saxophonist Bertrand Denzler along with his Quartet are at times fiercely ...
Brett Larner/Shoko Hikage/Philip Gelb: Indistancing
by AAJ Staff
In the blending of cultures that modern technology has made possible, traditional Japanese instruments like the koto and shakuhachi are now harnessed for free improvisation. In addition to the idiomatic cultural references these instruments bring, they also lend a distinctive tonality to the music. The koto, a stringed instrument, occupies the treble zone with a harsh ...
Libera Societ: Al m
by Robert Spencer
Voices: speaking, singing, orating, declaiming, singing. Singly and in larger groups of varying sizes. Sometimes singing and speaking in various overlays at the same time. Sometimes approaching the edges of today's vocal avant-garde ("E.U.E.," “Solotuè samosaisa," etc.) Sometimes mimicking some of the oldest vocal forms of the Western world, as on the gorgeously moving chantlike “Iesò ...
Walter Horn/Gary Kendig/Hugh Dickey: Screwdriver!
by Robert Spencer
“1. You are feeling so good. 2. Your entire body feels relaxed and wonderful." With these dictations begins Screwdriver!, a journey to the frontiers of improvisational music led by Walter Horn (keyboards and little instruments), Gary Kendig (drums, trumpet, little instruments), Hugh Dickey (guitar, clarinet, vocals, little instruments), plus Eric Hipp on tenor sax for one ...
Libera Societa di Improvvisazione: AL MALAIKO NOSKEMA
by AAJ Staff
Of the many delightful books that renowned fantasy author Ursula K. LeGuin has written, one of the most curious is entitled “Orsinian Tales”. This volume is a collection of short stories set in an imaginary central European country. The tales are extracted from various periods of history, from recent times, to the distant past. AL MALAIKO ...
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky & Evelin Petrova: Chonyi Together
by Glenn Astarita
On first appearance, and knowing the historical track record of the venerable Leo Records label, my immediate assumptions were that of “free-jazz” accordion-trumpet duets. Well, after the first listen this writer’s initial postulations were proven incorrect, as “Chonyi Together” is a strikingly unique affair, which gets high marks for ingenuity and charm. Russia’s Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky (trumpet) ...
Stefano Maltese and Open Sound Ensemble: Living Alive
by Robert Spencer
Stefano Maltese is an accomplished Italian saxophonist who recorded a marvelous album in 1995, Double Mirror, featuring the “free music" giants Evan Parker and Keith Tippett. This time around he takes up soprano sax, alto sax, and (in a new addition) bass clarinet, but the rest of the instrumentation is rather more unusual: he's joined by ...
Italian Instabile Festival: Pisa Teatro Verdi, December 1997
by Robert Spencer
This sprawling 2-disc set contains a stunning abundance of great music. The 19-member orchestra includes a number of luminaries of the Italian jazz and free music scenes, most of them largely unsung Stateside: the mercurial and hypnotic Carlo Actis Dato (tenor and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet); the wily, grizzled veteran Enrico Rava (trumpet); Bruno Tommaso (double ...
Eugene Chadbourne: Worms with Strings
by Robert Spencer
Well, the world may or may not be ready for a musical celebration of fecal worms, but Eugene Chadbourne certainly is, and when Eugene Chadbourne is ready for something, he has long since ceased to wait for any sign of approval or readiness from the populace. For all his joyful eccentricity, Chadbourne is a first-rate instrumentalist, ...
Eugene Chadbourne: Worms with Strings
by Robert Spencer
Well, the world may or may not be ready for a musical celebration of fecal worms, but Eugene Chadbourne certainly is, and when Eugene Chadbourne is ready for something, he has long since ceased to wait for any sign of approval or readiness from the populace. For all his joyful eccentricity, Chadbourne is a first-rate instrumentalist, ...
