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Marc Ducret: Le sens de la marche
by Jean-Marc Gelin
From the word go, guitarist Marc Ducret's Le sens de la marche enters another world, an unsettled one full of surprise and anguish--one for which there can be no preparation. Vaguely reminiscent of Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Tim Berne, it's a musical hubbub of organized chaos--systematic in theory but brutal and brilliant in practice. The ...
Eric Revis: Laughter's Necklace of Tears
by David Adler
Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straight-ahead to absolutely free. He debuted as a leader in 2004 with Tales of the Stuttering Mime (11:11), and he imbues his sophomore ...
State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words
by Kurt Gottschalk
State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words Ralph Gibson Paperback; 184 pages ISBN: 0300142110 Yale University Press 2008 Saxists have their mouthpieces and drummers their cymbals, but there's no fetish object quite like the guitar. It's played most often by peacocks, strutting and ...
Marc Ducret: Le Sens De La Marche
by Martin Longley
Marc Ducret is usually experienced either as a highly noticeable sideman or, if he's leading his own band, a dangerously pointed guitar brandisher. Mostly, he's known for working with Tim Berne, as part of Bloodcount and Big Satan. This solo album reveals one of Ducret's other aspects: composer and bandleader on a particularly ambitious scale. His ...
Tony Malaby: Paloma Recio
by Mark Corroto
To use a rock 'n' roll analogy, saxophonist Tony Malaby is the Mick Jagger to Joe Lovano's Paul McCartney. It's not that anyone has to choose sides, but if the classic Paul Motian band (featuring Lovano) was The Beatles, then Malaby's Paloma Recio quartet is the Rolling Stones. Without having to choose sides, Paloma ...
Quartet Base: Allo ?
by Mark F. Turner
Quartet Base is a free jazz chameleon. Viewing the group from multiple angles reveals different perspectives, each quite fascinating. Funk, rock, club, traditional, avant-garde and experimentation are like rapidly changing colors and contours of the group's changing skin. This ability is understood as the members are comprised of the Circum collective, a group of jazz musicians ...
Marc Ducret Trio: Heart-Stopping Music in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
The Marc Ducret Trio Rythmihäiri Club Helsinki, Finland November 31, 2007 Lost in translation is not an applicable excuse when listening to free-form instrumental jazz. It is to be expected. Sitting through 25 minutes of the intense experimental music the Marc Ducret Trio offers up during a single selection, inevitably ...
Qui Parle?
By Marc Ducret
Label: Sketch
Released: 2004
Track listing: On Ne Peut Pas Danser La-Dessus; Le Menteur; L
Marc Ducret: Qui Parle?
by John Kelman
Now in his late forties, guitarist Marc Ducret has built a career out of taking the essence of various traditions and turning them on their side. With Qui Parle? Ducret has fashioned perhaps his most ambitious and audacious effort to date, a seventy-five minute suite that is bold and almost entirely indefinable in terms of how ...
