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Robert Dick / Steve Baczkowski / Ravi Padmanabha: Doh Tala
by Marc Medwin
The duo of Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha has been engaging in exploratory improv for some time and the addition of master flutist Robert Dick is a stroke of genius. A certain world-beat vibe pervades much of the disc, as it does many of Padmanabha's projects, but this is no mere new-age feel-good ...
Larry Ochs
by Marc Medwin
“It started out as a social thing," says saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs of what would eventually determine the course of his life. “I played trumpet as a kid in New York, but it wasn't really because I enjoyed it. I played music because friends of mine were doing it; then it was supposed to be ...
Heikki Sarmanto: Moonflower, A Boston Date & Counterbalance
by Marc Medwin
Heikki Sarmanto Moonflower Porter 2008 Heikki Sarmanto A Boston Date Porter 2008 Heikki Sarmanto Counterbalance EMI/Odean--Porter 2008 Porter Records, ...
Connie Crothers / Bill Payne: Conversations
by Marc Medwin
Connie Crothers is one of the most versatile pianists on a scene that is so often mislabeled free jazz. Her pianism has been cultivated through long years of study and deep listening, evident in each tone, chord and gesture. Overwhelming intensity, at whatever volume, is juxtaposed with transparent beauty in a style that is as unique ...
Eri Yamamoto: Redwoods
by Marc Medwin
Eri Yamamoto’s pianism is quietly dignified and her approach to music making exudes introspection and beauty. Each note seems sculpted out of the silence surrounding it, making this latest trio disc a pleasure. Yamamoto can certainly play ‘out,’ but her subtle exploration of the symbiosis of mode and chord places her apart from the ...
Denman Maroney/Ned Rothenberg/ Reuben Radding/Michael Sarin: Gaga
by Marc Medwin
Denman Maroney is one of the most exciting pianists around today, just as Nuscope is one of the finest labels for creative music. The pairing is an excellent one on this offering from Maroney, reed player Ned Rothenberg, bassist Reuben Radding and drummer Michael Sarin, all musicians in top form in the service of ...
Stephen Gauci: Live at Glenn Miller Cafe
by Marc Medwin
New York tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci's first trip to Stockholm is documented on these hard-hitting Ayler releases in a double-disc set and an mp3 download. Between the two releases, most of the music recorded by this newly formed aggregate on Jul. 9th-10th, 2007 at the Glenn Miller Café is captured in vivid if slightly constricted sound. ...
Amalgam: Wipeout
by Marc Medwin
Here's a three-disc set of performances by Amalgam, saxophonist Trevor Watts' legendary jazz-funk free improv group from the '70s. These nine tracks were recorded on a late 1979 tour and originally released in 1980 in a four-LP box on Impetus. At that time, they had to be cut up, due to the LP's time constraints, but ...
Charles Tolliver: Music Inc.
by Marc Medwin
Under trumpet virtuoso Charles Tolliver's direction, the Music Inc. quartet would go on to record several challenging live albums-- from locales as varied as the famed club Slugs and Yubinchokin Hall in Tokyo--for his and pianist Stanley Cowell's fledgling Strata East label during the '70s, later collected in a Mosaic Select box devoted to the group. ...
Kidd Jordan: Freedom and Tradition
by Marc Medwin
“Oh yes, I lost compositions, all my music, my instruments... pretty much everything," smiles Kidd Jordan. He hasn't actually mentioned Hurricane Katrina by name, nor does his voice betray the bitterness he must still feel, even two-and-a-half years after the disaster that nearly cost him members of his family. There is gentleness in his delivery, but ...
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