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Joe McPhee: Soprano
by Lyn Horton
Sometimes, the best way to grasp of the power of an instrument is to hear it in a solo context without other instruments impacting its singularity. It matters if the musician playing the instrument is so engaged in knowing and feeling the instrument's range that the resulting sound emanates seemingly without effort. The music has originated ...
Michael Bisio Quartet: CIMP 360: Circle This
by Lyn Horton
A musical voice is hard to acquire for one musician much less a quartet. But there is always a beginning. The musical ingredients need to be simultaneously strong and viable. Compatibility of the instruments stands out as an element of connectivity. And the willingness from the band members to stick together is the glue that assures ...
Joe McPhee / Peter Br: Guts
by Lyn Horton
When people die for what they believe in, their actions speak louder than words. At least for a moment. Repeat performances of their deaths are impossible. So it is up to those who survive them to revitalize the symbolism of their deaths. Creative people do this well in the form of a tribute, for they are ...
The Train & The River: A Musical Odyssey with Trio X
by Lyn Horton
Trio X The Train and the River: A Musical Odyssey C.I.M.P. View 2007 Too few musicians in the past have been able to tell their own personal stories. It has been up to historians and critics to do the work of “educating (sometimes inaccurately) the public about the ...
Matthew Shipp: Tripling the Play
by Lyn Horton
When Matthew Shipp was a teenager, he had a job as a cocktail pianist. His motivation was to sound “like any old jazz pianist." He did “what any other jazz pianist would do, that is, study everything you can get your hands on to get a backlog of material which means learning standards." A “religious" inner ...
Taking a Magical Mastery Tour with The Bill Frisell Trio in Northampton, Massachusetts
by Lyn Horton
Bill Frisell Trio Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, Massachusetts June 21, 2007 Flourishing in something produces ecstasy. No experience can equal the satisfaction of a temporally bound creative act for which no result can be predicted and which simply becomes increasingly surprising as it evolves. The conversation that a musician ...
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix
by Lyn Horton
The most profound thought that any human being can have is about being alive. How we express life hopefully motivates us “to do, not just “to be. It is a gift to be able to have a means to do. And the gift often comes forth in a product. The product, in this case, is music. ...
Pegging Some Heartstrings: The Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet in New Haven
by Lyn Horton
Composition and improvisation can go hand in hand. Sometimes, the two approaches to musical creation are indistinguishable, in which case we can view the marriage of the two as a good one. Such a manifestation unfolded before an intimate audience at Firehouse 12, in New Haven, Connecticut on May 18, 2007, with the Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet. ...
Burton Greene: Retrospective 1961-2005: Solo Piano (August 18, 2005)
by Lyn Horton
Clarity of an all-encompassing vision can push a musician to say in music whatever is desired no matter what the response. This approach bolsters certainty and confidence which resultantly flows out of the instrument the musician plays. Both certainty and confidence exude from Burton Greene on Retrospective 1961-2005, Solo Piano. The recording is the third and ...
Propelling Personality: The Roscoe Mitchell Trio at UMASS
by Lyn Horton
Roscoe Mitchell Trio University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts April 26, 2007 When Roscoe Mitchell joined with his fellow Chicago musicians in 1965 to create the AACM, his primary motivation was to unravel how music reflecting the integrity of sound-making from a set of individual instruments could best be expressed. Judging ...
