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Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble The Vortex London, England August 10, 2009 If you can judge a person by the company he keeps, then pianist Alexander Hawkins must be someone to watch given his musical associations, both actual and virtual. The packed house at the Vortex certainly thought so, confounding Hawkins' ...
Taylor Ho Bynum and Harris Eisenstadt in London: A Second Anglo/American Convergence
by John Sharpe
Convergence Quartet The Vortex London, U.K. April 27, 2009 Last sighted on these shores in the autumn of 2006, the success of the Convergence Quartet 's inaugural meeting has now borne the fruit of a further tour for cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Harris Eisenstadt, and the up-and-coming English pairing ...
Jenoure, Bang and Burnham: Three Things To Say in Amherst, MA
by Lyn Horton
Three Things To Say Magic Triangle Series Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst March 26, 2009 Originally conceived by artist and musician, Terry Jenoure, the group Three Things to Say gave its premiere performance at Bezanson Recital Hall at UMass Amherst, the second of three concerts of the ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
In Memoriam: Leroy Jenkins 1932-2007
by AAJ Staff
Leroy was a good friend of many years. He had a very positive outlook in life. It was always a joy to play with such an excellent musician. JOSEPH JARMAN, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTLeroy Jenkins was the first person I ever heard improvise on the violin....it was the mid '70s and it was at some church in ...
The Art of Improvisation
Label: Mutable Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: To Live; To Sing; To Run; To Believe.
Leroy Jenkins: The Art of Improvisation
by Rex Butters
Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood rarely floats, but readily burns. In addition to the violinist leader, pianist Denman Maroney and percussionist Rich O'Donnell, Min Xiao-Fen joins on pipa, a four-stringed lute from 7th Century China. A classically trained musician, Xiao-Fen began improvising with the encouragement of John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith and Derek Bailey. The quartet roils with ...
Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood: The Art of Improvisation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Talvolta capita di dimenticare il ruolo centrale che il violinista Leroy Jenkins riveste nel jazz creativo degli ultimi quarant'anni, molti dei quali all'interno della grande avventura AACM, con collettivi quali la Creative Construction Company o il Revolutionary Ensemble, fino ad arrivare a tempi più recenti con il trio Equal Interest [in cui dialoga con Joseph Jarman ...
Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival Of America
Label: Tomato Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: track listing: Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America; Dancing on a Melody; the Clowns; Kick
Back Stomp; Through the Ages Jehovah.
Leroy Jenkins: Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America
by Rex Butters
The reactivation of the Tomato label comes as good news. What other imprint could boast a roster that included Doc Watson, John Cage, Townes Van Zandt, Harry Partch, and Sam Rivers? Now add Leroy Jenkins with his reissued title from 1978, Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America. That this quarter century old artifact sounds as ...
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