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April 2006
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Scraping a bow across one vibraphone bar and tickling another with two mallets, Kevin Norton elicited a free improvisation to reacquaint his Bauhaus Quartet. The group unfortunately performs infrequently, comprised as it is of intensely active musicians: John Lindberg on acoustic bass, Dave Ballou on trumpet and the omnipresent Tony Malaby on saxophones. The improv was ...
March 2006
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At the Blue Note (Feb. 3rd), pianist Kenny Werner led a quintet called Cosmocentric, with Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, David Sanchez on tenor, Scott Colley on bass and Antonio Sanchez (in for Brian Blade) on drums. It must be said that Wheeler, now 76, was not firing on all cylinders - at least not this set. ...
February 2006
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With the albums Lay Up and Bigmouth (both on Fresh Sound), bassist Chris Lightcap has articulated a powerful two-tenor concept with the aid of Tony Malaby, Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver. In recent months he's added pianist Craig Taborn to this volatile mix. At Cornelia Street Café (Jan. 6th), the group did its spacious funky ...
January 2006
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At Makor (Dec. 14th), guitarist Joel Harrison premiered an extended five-movement composition titled “The Wheel", employing double-quartet instrumentation that bring Patrick Zimmerli's jazz/classical hybrids to mind. Harrison is more the Americana buff, however; violinists Todd Reynolds and Christian Howes conveyed that flavor early in the first movement “American Farewell". The suite involved dense interplay between strings ...
December 2005
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Muhal Richard Abrams closed the AACM's 40th anniversary season with solo piano and large ensemble sets at the Community Church of New York (Nov. 11th). His solo piece, “Life One Prelude , was approximately 45 minutes of high abstraction. Sparse atonal clusters grew into enveloping waves of sound as Abrams roamed the keyboard, often with crossed ...
November 2005
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The Steve Lacy homage at Merkin Hall (Oct. 6th) encompassed poetry, solo horns, unorthodox trios, jazz quintets, live electronics (from David Wessel and Richard Teitelbaum) and even a solo guitar romp from Gary Lucas. It was a brilliant stroke to seat all the performers onstage, effectively making them part of the audience. We were thus afforded ...
November 2005
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The Brian Blade Fellowship has a way of reminding one why music (not just jazz) matters. Gigging and recording infrequently, the group has nonetheless moved many with its cathartic mini-symphonies, so this Village Vanguard engagement was hotly anticipated. With saxophonist Chris Cheek standing in for Melvin Butler, Blade's lineup was otherwise close to that of the ...
September 2005
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At the Stone, in a fairly rare New York appearance (Aug. 11th), Sticks and Stones laid bare the essence of the leaderless trio concept. Altoist Matana Roberts, bassist Josh Abrams and drummer Chad Taylor tunneled through abstract grooves, locked horns in riotous free-bop and sang with a deeply felt lyricism. The Strayhorn/Ellington classic “Isfahan , with ...
August 2005
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In a glass-enclosed second-floor atrium at Scandinavia House (Jul. 6th), bassist Eivind Opsvik did his best to rise above loud conversations fueled by flowing drinks. The bandmates - Tony Malaby on tenor, Jacob Sacks on keyboard and Gerald Cleaver on drums - have played on one or both of Opsvik's superior Fresh Sound-New Talent discs, Overseas ...
July 2005
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At the new and thoroughly spruced-up Smalls, tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen chaired a productive meeting with pianist George Burton, bassist Joseph Lepore and drummer Damion Reid (June 11; bassist Chris Lightcap subbed on June 10). This was fierce, hard-bitten stuff and when Allen blew, Burton usually gave him the field and did not comp. The tempos ...
