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Ras Moshe: Outsight
by Florence Wetzel
Outsight is a powerful release by multi-instrumentalist Ras Moshe, who is one of the mainstays of the New York City avant-free scene. The album was released by Straw2Gold Pictures, an eclectic organization that specializes in high-end sound production and has branched out with a record label. Straw2Gold's roster features a select group of artists, including guitarist ...
Spiritualized, Connie Crothers, Allen Lowe & Vinny Golia
by Martin Longley
Spiritualized Secret Project Robot April 2, 2013 The English cosmo-psychedelic drugsludge-rock combo Spiritualized would usually be expected to play at one of NYC's larger venues, such as Terminal 5 or Webster Hall. Just prior to their U.S. West Coast dates, Spiritualized suddenly announced a micro-gig, leaking the ...
The Lou Grassi Po Band with Marshall Allen: Live at the Knitting Factory Volume 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il sax contralto e il flauto di Marshall Allen, la tromba di Paul Smoker, il trombone di Steve Swell e il clarinetto di Perry Robinson. Tutti insieme appassionatamente, la sera del 26 settembre 2000, sul palco della Knitting Factory di New York. Al contrabbasso Wilber Morris; alla batteria Lou Grassi, titolare del progetto Po Band, creatura ...
The Lou Grassi Po Band with Marshall Allen: Live At The Knitting Factory Volume 1
by Glenn Astarita
Drummer Lou Grassi, with his progressive jazz and improvisational luminaries, slams matters into high gear during this gutsy 2000 recording, captured at New York City's Knitting Factory. Historically, Grassi is known for his driving passion and prominent leadership, while almost always engaging with superior musicians. Here, the frontline musicians lock horns, via intervallic spikes and scorching ...
Guelph Jazz Festival, September 8-12, 2010
by Kurt Gottschalk
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, CanadaSeptember 8-12, 2010 Some music festivals are holidays and some are expeditions. The annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium in Ontario has a way of being more safari than respite. The days are long, with lectures and panel discussions on some days beginning at 9:00am and concerts on others ...
The Nu Band: Live In Paris
by John Sharpe
An average of one album every other year is pretty good going for a free jazz collective, and that's what The Nu Band has achieved. Its fifth, Live In Paris, comes ten years after their first communion in 2000. It's also a departure, not in that it is a concert recording as there are already three ...
Steve Swell: Sound Miracles
by Gordon Marshall
Trombonist Steve Swell captures the energy of a big band in the close quarters of a small group. An alumnus of Buddy Rich's and Lionel Hampton's bands on the one hand, and collaborator with Anthony Braxton on the other, he seems bound to have fixed upon such a hybrid configuration at some point. But how an ...
David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists
by Clifford Allen
In the void left by the deaths of saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, among the cheap rents in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn offering space to artists and musicians, the presence of affordable loft spaces birthed an intersection of jazz scenes in the 1970s. The music itself favored a variety of approaches, mostly built on the ...
Marilyn Lerner / Ken FIliano / Lou Grassi: Arms Spread Wide
by Robert Iannapollo
Canadian pianist Marilyn Lerner has garnered a name for herself as one of the most diverse and exciting pianists to emerge in the last ten years. Best known among her releases is a series of albums with the co-op Queen Mab Trio, with violist Ig Henneman and clarinetist Lori Friedman. But also included in her discography ...
