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Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude
by Lyn Horton
Music correlating to physicality gives it a fertile meaning, a meaning that lifts it out of its abstract plane into a zone that is identifiable. Listening becomes more than moving through time; it becomes a process of imagination and fulfillment. Drummer Bobby Previte and guitarist Charlie Hunter have interpreted three descriptors of ...
Fred Anderson: Customizing Conviction
by Lyn Horton
Carrying on tradition brings history through time without imitation. Not all musicians make it their job to ensure that the music of the past, while changeable as a result of the passage of cultural time, stays intact. It's all about new tunes and improvisation: the creation of music that upholds the tradition, with those to whom ...
The Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser Duo at UMass, Amherst
by Lyn Horton
Roswell Rudd / Mark Dresser Duo Solos & Duos SeriesBesanzon Recital HallUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts October 17, 2007 A few years ago, bassist Mark Dresser proposed to trombonist Roswell Rudd that they work together. On their first recording as a duo, Airwalkers (Clean Feed, 2006), Rudd and ...
Living in the Shadows: Drummer Warren Smith Solos at UMass Amherst
by Lyn Horton
Warren Smith Solos and Duos Series, University of Massachusetts, Fine Arts Center Amherst, Massachusetts September 26, 2007 Musicians worth their salt practice their awareness of their heritage, be that ethnic or musical. Doing so gives them not only access to a wealth of precedence but also starting blocks for ...
Chico Hamilton: Hamiltonia
by Lyn Horton
Defying conventions even in the mildest of musical settings can define a path to innovation. For drummer Foreststorn “Chico Hamilton, blazing a trail within his own dynamic language, sometimes reflecting his heritage, has been a lifelong tradition. On Hamiltonia, octogenarian Hamilton has chosen a group of originals from four 2006 recordings to summarize a ...
Zlatko Kaucic: Tolminski Punt
by Lyn Horton
The question of how a non-verbal language can be programmatic to tell a story is always answered through what the language does. In the case of music, melding what instruments say with the visual images or aural associations the instruments trigger challenges the imagination. Tomlinski Punt is such a programmatic recording. It is taken ...
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio: Terminal Valentine
by Lyn Horton
Fred Lonberg-Holm Terminal Valentine Atavistic 2007 Recalibrating the idea of a piano-less jazz trio by excluding a wind instrument and including a cello takes a certain amount of chutzpah. But in 2000, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm convened such a trio to record music honoring the cellist Fred Katz, who ...
Matthew Shipp Trio at the Blue Note, NYC
by Lyn Horton
The Matthew Shipp Trio The Blue Note New York, New York August 27, 2007 Making a record means freezing music in time. The musicians have done their job for that session. What will be heard will only be that session for as long as the recording lasts. Even though a ...
Norbert Stein: Graffiti Suite
by Lyn Horton
Norbert Stein Graffiti Suite Pata Music 2006 Interaction among separate elements can have greater impact than the individual actions of those elements. The process is called synergy. Synergy works on all levels and is an important factor behind the successful outcomes that can emerge from collaborative effort--and it can be ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Lyn Horton
The physical universe and spirit are indivisibly connected. To explain the dynamics that unifies them requires a language accessible to human perceptions. One of those languages is music. Matthew Shipp has elected to reveal how the universe and spirit interact musically in more ways than one. The endeavor to come out of a period ...
